While half the world was all austere and trying to shed communism to actually free the people, the developed west was thriving and building mad sports cars. In the mid 1980s, wealthy industrialists and/or businessmen could get their hands on flamboyant and decadent automobiles like the Ferrari Testarossa.
Don’t think of it as a track weapon, because with the kind of roll it exhibited, it wasn’t its ideal habitat. What the Testarossa was was a mid-engined GT car, and a very characterful one at that – apparently, you had to swap out the muffled stock exhaust for something racier, but the result was worth it.
We know this from John Pogson, who, according to Drive, is “one of the most important people in the world of Ferrari. He’s been fixing them and driving them since his early 20s. When it comes to restoration and race engineering, he’s simply one of the best.