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Year in Review: Jouret recalls Dick Merritt

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Merritt with Ferrari 250 LM Stradale, sn 5995.

Story by Jackie Jouret
Photos courtesy Kendall Merritt and Chris Cooper

From the Archives, January 2023

For a newcomer to the world of Ferrari, spending a day with Dick Merritt was like sitting at the feet of the master. I’d been named editor of Forza magazine not long before, and I was thrilled to learn about Ferrari history from the man who’d not only started the Ferrari Club of America in 1962 but had imported some of the marque’s most significant cars to the US.

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Jackie Jouret Visits the Hellenic Motor Museum

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The Hellenic Motor Museum: An Athenian treasure trove of Italian cars from the ’60s and ’70s

Story and photos by Jackie Jouret

Athens is a city of museums, with some 80 institutions devoted to the art, archaeology, history and culture of ancient and modern Greece. Some are must-visit destinations on any trip to Athens, like the Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeology Museum, but all of us eventually need a break from marble statuary.

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Jackie Jouret Recalls Dick Merritt

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Merritt with Ferrari 250 LM Stradale, sn 5995.

Story by Jackie Jouret
Photos courtesy Kendall Merritt and Chris Cooper

For a newcomer to the world of Ferrari, spending a day with Dick Merritt was like sitting at the feet of the master. I’d been named editor of Forza magazine not long before, and I was thrilled to learn about Ferrari history from the man who’d not only started the Ferrari Club of America in 1962 but had imported some of the marque’s most significant cars to the US.

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