Merritt Ferraris

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.

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.