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  1. jm2

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    #2 amenasce, Mar 28, 2013
    I want them all.
     
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    #3 275GTBSaran, Mar 28, 2013
    What a fun picture! Notice they were all red! That was the height of Ferrari re-sale red. Everyone wanted their Ferrari in red. This is good evidence of that!
     
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    #4 4re308, Mar 28, 2013
    I just love old photos of meets, these are awesome. Just makes you want to cry!!
     
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    the Daytona & 1 of the Boxers were silver,but red certainly was the predominent color
     
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    #6 thedoc, Mar 28, 2013
    guy in back with grey shirt yellow pants is Chuck Jordan former Head of GM design and it looks like his house in Bloomfeild Hills.

    I was there in the early 90s to trade 1/43 scale car models with him .

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    #7 mx906, Mar 28, 2013
    LM # 5905, GTO # 3765, SWB # 4051, & 512M # 1036 ?
     
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    the 512M was Manfred Lampe's car,can't remember the serial #
     
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    #9 jm2, Mar 28, 2013
    yes that's Chuck Jordan
     
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    #10 stevenwk, Mar 28, 2013
    Jordan had both a silver Daytona and silver Boxer....
     
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    #11 stevenwk, Mar 28, 2013
    John,
    Those were great days around here. Many, many significant Ferraris flowed through our area back in those days unbeknownst to most people.....
     
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    I don't believe Chuck ever had a silver Daytona.......but he did have a yellow one..
    the one silver Daytona in the photo belonged to Keith Crane,owner/publisher of Automotive News
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    #13 merstheman, Mar 28, 2013
    What is also noticeable is the complete lack of stickers on the cars. No sponsors. Nothing. Interesting, isn't it...
     
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    #14 jm2, Mar 28, 2013
    yes it was
    the car design community back then had a number of Ferrari junkies,but not so much today
     
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    #15 Jeff Kennedy, Mar 28, 2013
    Dave Holls standing to Chuck's right. Not a Ferrari person but he did have a nice Packard Darrin.

    Remember that some of the founders of the FCA were from Detroit. One of the earliest traders in old Ferraris was Dick Merrit who was with Ford then later with GM in product planning. Warren Fitzgerald, co-author with Dick of the first Ferrari book, was a GM designer.

    Lots of Detroit connections to the Ferrari world. Henry Ford had the 212 barchetta and nearly bought the company. Harley Earl's son Jerry had a 250MM for a while. Bill Mitchell ordered a 410SA. Dick Teague went through "some" vintage Ferraris.

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    #16 jm2, Mar 28, 2013
    yes,dave lived around the corner from Henry
    he wasn't a Ferrari guy,but he was one of the most knowledgeable car people I ever met
    he had a '30's Cadillac as well.....had one of the coolest 4 car garages around!
     
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    #17 stevenwk, Mar 28, 2013
    My recollection was a silver Daytona with "PROVA" Michigan plates......thought that was his car too??

    I believe his Boxer had a "SEFAC" Michigan plate, but not positive.

    Yes, I remember the R/T photo of Jordan's Daytona. Very cool pic!!
     
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    #18 jm2, Mar 28, 2013
    I don't think that was Chuck's car,but I'll find out!
     
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    #19 stevenwk, Mar 28, 2013
    In fact, I remember there was a gentleman that owned a 500 Superfast that lived just off of Long Lake Road across from Kirk in the Hills, just west of Franklin Road, back in the late 1960s......
     
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    Sorry about the 'side ways' photo, but I thought that this was Jordan's Boxer.

    From the book, and credit to, "Ferrari - The Enduring Legend"
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    #21 jm2, Mar 28, 2013
    he had a silver Boxer,just can't remember his license plate
     
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    #22 Jeff Kennedy, Mar 28, 2013
    The Daytona was CMJ.

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    #23 TKO, Mar 28, 2013
    Great Photo's John, thanks for sharing! Man, leisure pants were still in full swing .... :)
     
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    #24 silver1331, Mar 28, 2013
    great photo...whats funny to me is that given the federalization rules the guys who showed up in the boxers probably got all the attention!
     
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    #25 buckminster, Mar 28, 2013
    Looks like Bloomfield Hills to me, what a bunch of sweet rides.
     
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