Rare video of a nearly $2 million, 600-hp Ferrari-powered boat
By: on 5/10/2012  There are times when auction items carrying
multimillion-dollar estimates can be dismissed as too pricey to
spend serious amounts of time dreaming about. “A toy for a rich
man, too expensive to be enjoyed,” you say to yourself.  But
then there things so undeniably appealing that they push all
other thoughts aside and whisper, “Find a way to buy me. Do what
you have to do, kill whoever you have to kill. You'll die alone
and miserable if you don't find a way to be with me.”  The 1953
Timossi-Ferrari “Arno XI” Racing Hydroplane that RM Auctions
will sell in its Monaco auction this weekend falls into the
latter category.  As Davey G. Johnson once said, “You're in a
Ferrari, you're in a boat, you're piloting a . . . hydroplane
for . . . sake”  The Arno XI is powered by a Tipo 375 Ferrari
V12 sporting two carbs and two superchargers. Running on
methanol, it should be good for 600 hp.  RM estimates that the
boat will bring 1,000,000 eu