{"id":369208,"date":"2011-01-18T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=32722"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:32:35","slug":"my-first-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/my-first-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Story by Stephen Mitchell<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-795759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521-770x536.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/D3S_0521-293x204.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso was at Riverside Raceway where I was attending the Times Grand Prix. The Mecom team&#8211;which earlier had campaigned a GTO I would later acquire&#8211;was there with a one-off special named the Hussein for A.J. Foyt to drive. At one point, I noticed an interesting shape in the pits and used my binoculars to get a better look. It was a Ferrari Lusso and it was gorgeous. As it turned out, the car belonged to the actress Jill St. John who I would later encounter on the 405 freeway towing a cabin cruiser on a trailer with her Lusso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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It was a Ferrari Lusso and it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":795759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,56,11272,18207],"tags":[17152,60,20226,17140,17143],"class_list":["post-369208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-ferrari","category-members-only","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-ferrari","tag-ferrari-featured","tag-members-only","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My First Ferrari<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephen Mitchell, former owner of Ferrari GTO s\/n 3987, describes how he purchased his first Ferrari, a 250 GT Lusso.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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