We Could Have One
Four seats. Twelve cylinders. Thirty-six thousand dollars.
Yes. There would be reasons.
A 1983 Ferrari 400i sent us looking at automatic gearboxes, rear seats, and the space we might have in the garage.
Then we found Jordache jeans. A free LCD watch.
A cassette player you could take for a walk.
We’ve replaced the red-string board with an arcade wall. Apparently we’re still easily distracted.
But we came back with an opinion.
We’d take the automatic. Fine.
We’d want working A/C.
And ours would be blue.
We Noticed Something...
KimmSpeed is an independent automotive publication about the cars, people, engineering and stories that make us interested, nostalgic, or have us saying, “Hang on. What is that?” We follow mechanical curiosities, forgotten histories, unusual collections and the questions that send us somewhere unexpected.
Sometimes that means digging through twenty-year-old records. Sometimes it means following the story wherever it leads. Pull up a chair and dive down whatever rabbit hole we’ve stumbled into.
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