Mike will wear red and black but if you want him to wear a Prancing Horse, well...
By Wallace Wyss
To Sedona in an e-Bay Ferrari
In my experience both here and abroad, the Ferrari world is a sea of pristine well-cared for finely-fettled cars, whose owners seem to hover near them at every car show, dreadfully fearful some interloper will touch their car.
Then there’s my high school friend, Mike, a retiree from the Phoenix area.
His 1979 Ferrari GTB has seen better days. The paint is a bit rough (Mike claims that he had seen worse paint jobs, but they were done with a brush), the leather seats have popped their seams so there’s sponge rubber showing, there’s a piece of fiberglass hanging down somewhere at the back, the engine is dirt covered, the air conditioning compressor is missing, the tires don’t quite fit.
But, to his mind, it’s perfect. Why? Because he drives it. [Read more…] about Ferraris on the Road