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In 1947, Enzo Ferrari’s first car emerged from the Maranello factory. At that moment, a benchmark for all performance cars was born. Fast forward 43 years and Enzo Ferrari is the reason for my bedroom wall looking the way it did.
I was (and still am) obsessed with the Testarossa. I had several posters on my wall as a kid. Fast froward 70 years and there is still nothing like a Ferrari.
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Italian cars are their own breed and certinately Ferrari proves that. Performance, style, class; all of it converges so wonderfully. From the 125S in 1947, to the versatile 340 in the 1950s, to the downright stunning 250s and 275s of the 1960s, there is no mistaking the Ferrari image. In the early 90s it was the F40. With its unmistakable red glow and raised rear wing, it was most certinately a dream car for me growing up. As I was flipping though the pages of Ferrari 70 Years by Dennis Adler, I found that dream alive once again. It didn’t matter that I haven’t set foot in that old house I grew up in for years; the house that once held all my Ferrari posters on the wall.
When I read page 225, it all raced back.
“The F40 was one of those cars that beckoned you, no, compelled you, if you had any spirit at all, to take hold of the wheel and master the machine” writes Adler. “It was how a seasoned horseman might have felt when he came upon a wild stallion.”
Adler documen...