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Pagani Zonda R.

San Cesario sul Panaro, Italy.

Lamborghini Miura S, one of 140 built between 1968 and 1971.

Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy.

Lamborghini Aventador sitting outside the Lamborghini factory.

Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy.

Me enjoying a nice can of Irn Bru (that we’d driven all the way from Glasgow) at 9,000ft, the top of the Stelvio Pass.

Passo dello Stelvio, Italy.

Badge on the back of a Ferrari F40.

Maranello, Italy.

Stelvio Pass.

Italy.

We drove all the way from Scotland to Bormio in Italy and excitedly set off up the Stelvio Pass, only to get stuck about 1 mile in when a coach got itself wedged in a tunnel! Twenty minutes of guiding and scraping later the coach was free and we could all get on our way to the top.

Stelvio Pass, Italy.

The factory gates.

Maranello, Italy.

Lamborghini Countach Anniversary.

Like every boy in the 80s I had a poster of a Countach on my wall. In fact I had two, one was a big long one somebody got me for Christmas. To my eye the Anniversary of 1988 was a step to far in terms of styling, looking clunky and busy after the purity of the LP500 and 5000QV that went before. The amazing rear end of those earlier models was replaced by a horrible tacked on bumper and square lights.

I still have an issue of Fast Lane magazine from the mid-80s when they clocked a Countach QV at a two-way average of 195mph on a public autostrada! Brave men!

Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy.

Black and Blue.

Transition from black to blue carbon bodywork on a Pagani Zonda Tricolore.

San Cesario sul Panaro, Italy.