We all have friends whose hard work pays off. Some of these guys, the car fans, line up something with a prancing horse on it.
My friend Mark detailed Ferraris in high school and house-sat for the dealership’s owner. He got to wash some amazing cars and get behind the wheel of a few too. But his plans were a little bigger. Someday he was going to own his own Italian sports car–one with Enzo’s last name on it.
When the time came, he had a wife and son, so a two-seater had one bucket too few. The answer was a Mondial. Here it is. As you might expect of a seasoned detailer, he has it looking like it was built last week.
The Mondial is an interesting car. A little off radar with the four-place seating, but that exposed-gate shifter and 180 mph speedometer remind you you’re in a Ferrari. If he throws me the keys, I’ll catch ‘em. (Course, he’s on the other side of the world, so it’ll have to be a pretty big throw.)
Here’s some interesting links on the Mondial. In this piece, MSN calls it one of the top 50 cars of the 1980s, while here, Time Magazine had a different impression. IMHO, whoever wrote the Time piece isn’t much fun at a party.
MotorMouth Kris Palmer, freelance auto writer and editor, blogs about vintage cars, the collectible auto scene and just about anything else that goes vroom.
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