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“THE CARS ARE CRAMMED IN TIGHTLY, NONE SHOWN SPECIAL DISPENSATION”

Through the famous red brick archway and turn right. It looks like a dead end, but here in a tucked away corner, dwarfed by the main production building and only 50m from Maranello’s main entrance, is a workshop. It’s smaller than you imagine, more cluttered. This is where the world’s most expensive cars come when they need a spruce up. Ferrari’s Classiche department.

You’d also imagine it’s been here since the beginning. But back when it got going in the Fifties and Sixties, Ferrari didn’t know it was going to be a big deal. It was a race team. It built cutting edge racers to the latest regulations. It was all

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