Carol and the Mondial set up by Clay Regazzoni's technicians. While the system works well on the street, it was not quick enough for the demands of racing.

At the hospital, everyone was hopeful. Like Carol Hollfelder, doctors told Clay that although he had massive leg and back injuries, there was still feeling in his legs and they hoped he would walk again. They were wrong. It would take years of operations and therapy before Clay Regazzoni finally adapted to his paralysis.

Back in Switzerland, Regazzoni could live without walking, but not without driving. He became interested in hand controlled vehicles, and adapting them to more sporting cars than was the norm at the time. By the late 1980s, using rudimentary hand control technology, Regazzoni was able to enter vintage race events and rallies, and opened a disabled driver's school. His life took on a new meaning, and Regazzoni was eager to assist others facing similar situations.

In late 1987, Carol Hollfelder was through with the hell that they called rehab. She moved back home, where she had lived before the motorcycle accident. It was time to get on with living again. She found jobs, and enrolled in college courses. "I was hanging out with my friends and pretty much getting on with life in general," said Carol. "I knew I was going to adjust to being a paraplegic and would have to live with it for some time."

After the agonizing process of rehabilitation, there seemed to be renewed hope that Carol might still be able to walk, to regain at least some of the movement and feeling in her limbs. "I had continual improvement in the first few years, more sensation in my lower body, and more motor function and control. My family become involved with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and I began traveling to Florida twice a year for biofeedback treatments." It was working, and for the first time since the accident, she was able to stand with some support and walk between parallel bars. Much to her relief, she found she could even drive again, although the days of the Tiger four speed were over-it would be automatics equipped with hand controls for the brake and throttle from now on. Life was getting better, if not altogether perfect. "Being closely involved with the medical research community, we knew how good things looked for the future. But we also knew that the future may not come for another 10 years or more." Still, Carol thought that being a paraplegic was, perhaps, just a phase she would have to endure.

Just as car crazy as ever, Carol still wanted a Ferrari Boxer, never forgetting her father's promise he had made to her while she was in the hospital. In 1989, just two years after the accident, Tom Hollfelder told Carol that "I had accomplished everything he had hoped for me and was ready to fulfill his promise." He asked her if she wanted a Ferrari.