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    BLACK IS THE NEW ORANGE

    Jun 16, 2021 4 minutes
    STORY DAMION SMY
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    CHRIS THOROGOOD

    HE RIDES a black Harley. He drives a black Camaro ZL1 and his tow-car is a black Dodge Ram. So what on earth possessed Ross Pontonio to buy an orange Mustang? “I used to go down looking around at the cars up for auction, and I saw this orange fastback and just fell in love with it. I don’t know why; I mean, orange is not my favourite colour!” Ross had passed up a black fastback 18 months earlier, but something about the orange 289 ’Stang grabbed him. “I was hell-bent on getting it.”

    Get it he did, but alongside his black Ram and Camaro, the Mustang’s orange paint was an eyeful. There were no plans to dip

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