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    IAIN AYRE FERRARI? NO THANKS!

    Dec 24, 2020 3 minutes

    I don’t really go for being insulted, and the build quality of some classic Ferraris was really rather contemptuous. The current ones might be more professionally constructed – I have no idea, and no real interest in investigating.

    Prior to 1994 I had nothing to do with Ferraris, but a publishing house asked if I would do the words for a book about the 512TR, the model that came after the 1980s Testarossa. The book’s photographer was supposed to write the words as well as doing the pics, but he hadn’t.

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