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In 1945, Enzo Ferrari, the one-time director of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo's fabled racing program, emerged from Alfa's shadow to create his own legend. Out of the rubble of World War II, Ferrari established an auto works whose products would surpass anything seen before. Now esteemed automotive journalist, historian, and photographer Dennis Adler presents this stunningly illustrated story of one of the most coveted and recognized automobile lines in the world.  Featured are many legendary Ferraris from road and track, including the brutally powerful F50, ""the fastest road car ever"" and Ferrari's Grand Prix and Formula One cars, driven by champions from Alberto Ascari to Niki Lauda to Michael Schumacher, as well as renowned Ferrari designers Sergio Pininfarina, Sergio Scaglietti, and many others in this fascinating history of Ferrari through its successes and failures, setbacks and triumphs.

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9781629146775

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Dennis Adler is the editor in chief of Car Collector magazine and the author of more than twenty books on automotive history and vintage firearms. He has written award-winning books on Packard, Chrysler, and Mercedes-Benz. In addition to being the author of works on automobiles, Adler is one of America's most published historians on Western guns and collectible firearms. Author and photographer for more than three dozen books and thousands of magazine articles, Dennis has published work in such publications as American Rifleman, Guns of the Old West, and the Robb Report. He lives in western Pennsylvania. Luigi Chinetti, Jr. is the son of Luigi Chinetti, who was the first American importer of Ferrari automobiles and was essential to the early success of the Italian sportscar.

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