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80s ferrari models10/12/2023 ![]() The Testarossas were up for sale for an undisclosed sum as a job lot at Mallusk-based performance vehicle specialists J&F Group Gas Monkey Garage proprietor and former Fast N' Loud star turned You Tube sensation – 980k subscribers and counting – Richard Rawlings is a man who remembers its seismic impact all too well: that's why the car crazed Texan wheeler dealer made a whirlwind trip to Ireland from Dallas last Wednesday to look at buying five of them all at once. Sensibly, they put it on display behind a barrier to better keep the drooling hoards at bay, photographic evidence of which should appear below.ĭon't worry, I eventually grew into those ears.Īlmost 40 years later, the Testarossa remains a collectible icon. The Testarossa is the very first Ferrari I can remember actually seeing up close, when someone – Charles Hurst in all likelihood – brought one over to the Ulster Motor Show at the King's Hall in Belfast. ![]() The game was an instant worldwide smash and was soon ported onto home computer platforms, further cementing the Testarossa's dream car status amongst those still far too young to drive, never mind actually afford, one of these £80k, 180mph machines – including my eight-year-old car-mad self. September 1986 also saw Sega's latest racing game screech into arcades across the world: OutRun had kids literally queuing up to for a chance to take an ultra-rare Ferrari Testarossa Spider (in reality a one-off convertible variant commissioned by Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli which was never mass-produced) on a speed limit busting spree across America's highways – or at least as far as their bulging pockets full of 10p coins would take them.
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