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Book Review: Rebel Rebel

April 21, 2010 By pete

Hardback, 160 pages, color and b&w photos
$80 USD, plus $20 Shipping
By Marc Sonnery and Keith Bluemel
Parker House, 2010
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Review by Pete Vack

The cover: A tall young man in horn-rimmed glasses has a beer while taking a break. He must be tall, for the coupe he is working on appears to be about groin high. Behind this doorless, bare-aluminum Ferrari is a 1956 Chevy and what appears to be an apartment complex. The photo looks to have been taken in the 1960s.

The faded, poorly-focused color snapshot stimulates synapses: This is either something I’ve done or something I have dreamed of doing. Or both.
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The Count’s Revenge

April 21, 2010 By Wally

Art by Wallace A. Wyss

Mr. Wyss wrote this for us some time ago but it still passes muster even with the revelations of the new book “Rebel Rebel”. And a nice way to introduce one to the subject of the incredible Ferrari Breadvan. Ed.

By Wallace Alfred Wyss

Yes, there are Ferrari racers with a sense of humor. The Ferrari 250GT ‘Breadvan’ is a result of one such owner’s sense of humor. It was based on a 1961 competition 250 GT SWB modified by Ing. Giotto Bizzarrini.
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The Monster

May 27, 2009 By Wally

Wyss: “This is my oil painting of my car, once I switched it from International Harvester Green to Rosso Corsa.” Art by Wallace A. Wyss

By Wallace A. Wyss

Monster though it may be, the C4 Wyss paid $19,000 for is now worth about $150,000.

The man’s wife, an actress who looked Scandinavian, called it “The Monster.”

“You’ve come for the Monster,” she said.
“Yes, I have,” I said, while trying to figure out why she would call one of Pininfarina’s most beautiful Ferraris–the GTC/4– “The Monster.”

I say “most beautiful” but the Italians, with their ever more refined eyes for body shapes (both women and cars) called it “the hunchback with clown lips” because it had an ever so slight rise to the center of the rear deck lid, and up front there was a rubber bumper surround. Neither feature hurt the car’s looks but you know the Italians. They wanted things just right or they would find something to criticize.

I found out later on, once I took the car, it ate money. It wasn’t the cookie monster, but the money monster.

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