Someone Lend Me $4,000,000 So I Can Buy The Only Ferrari To Do Time At Gitmo

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This Ferrari 340 America Touring Berlinetta, chassis number 0126A, is a uncommon bird arsenic 1 of conscionable 23 of nan original 340 Americas, and 1 of conscionable 2 successful Touring bodywork. It's nan car's history, however, that makes it a one-of-one. After spending immoderate clip bouncing astir Europe, including a stint pinch Charlie Chaplan's boy Sidney, nan gorgeous and blase V12 Ferrari ran into difficult times successful America and was fitted pinch some hotrodder's astir apt much powerful Ford flathead V8 and shipped disconnected to Guantanamo Bay for penance. For astir of nan 1960s this beautiful eggcrate-grille Ferrari popped and banged astir nan U.S. Naval guidelines successful Cuba nether nan attraction of an serviceman stationed location (who reportedly died during nan Vietnam War). It isn't instantly clear, but this wistful and slender instrumentality whitethorn person been coming for nan Cuban rocket crisis. When a car lives done history, immoderate of that history is stored wrong its sheetmetal. While I emotion this car for its beauty and nan now-returned Italian V12, its history is fascinating to me, and possibly worthy nan costs of admission. 

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The car has been restored to its original build specifications, and is presented arsenic 1 of nan astir cleanable examples of pre-250 GT Ferrari motoring. I'll beryllium honest, I benignant of emotion everything astir it. The squinty and somewhat droopy Touring bodywork is tremendous, and nan 340 cars sewage nan 4.1-liter Lampredi "big engine" from Ferrari's play racing cars. This 1 was lovingly restored a decade ago, and this is nan cleanable opportunity for personification to thief nan car gain immoderate patina backmost through, you know, existent use. 

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The consciousness of nan wood rim nether your fingertips, aliases nan delicate gaffe of nan gearshifter can't really beryllium replicated successful immoderate different car, and you perfectly request to nonstop maine a fewer cardinal to bargain this machine. Pretty overmuch immoderate different imaginable purchaser for this car is going to fastener it distant wherever it can't beryllium seen again. I, however, would usage this car arsenic often arsenic possible, treating it to lengthy roadworthy trips and two-lane blacktop stone chips. The car needs this. I need this. 

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We are what we experience, and this car hasn't lived a life coated successful Vaseline. It needs to beryllium freed to return to an authentic life erstwhile more. Hell, possibly I would moreover re-install a flathead Ford for a while to sphere nan near-priceless motor that resides successful it now connected a Harbor Freight motor stand. You tin find retired what I would do pinch it by lending maine nan car's pre-auction estimate of betwixt 3 and 4 cardinal American dollars pinch generous position and little-to-no anticipation of repayment aliases return connected your investment. What's nan worst that could happen, you astir apt already mislaid much than that connected NFTs and AI investment, right? At slightest this measurement you get nan intermezo of seeing personification driving an aged Ferrari connected a regular basis.