Collecting Ferraris in a Michigan suburb....Photo by Chris Cooper. Click to enlarge.
By Pete Vack
Photos by Chris Cooper
It is the juxtaposition of a lower middle class neighborhood and modest house with the millions of dollars of machinery in the driveway that makes the following photos so stunning, unreal and unworldly.
In addition, the photos are not Brownie snapshots or early Polaroids but taken with a then-expensive Leica 35mm in the hands of Chris Cooper, a man with a good eye and steady hand. This gives a professional appearance to the treasures, as if someone knew that this was a sight to behold.
0224AT in another driveway. Back in 1967 or 1968, this Ferrari Mexico 340 Vignale Coupe, s/n 0224AT, was sitting in Cal Gleason’s driveway in Detroit. Cal was not a rich man, merely a man with good taste, recalled Eric Davison, who took this photo. This weekend Cal would have also been a very rich man, had he kept the Ferrari. It rolled off the block for $4,290,000, according to RM Auctions in 2011.