Following fashion
To add to the correspondence (Letters, October) after the very fair article in August about an unfashionable car, I buy unfashionable Ferraris. As well as a Mondial, my other one at present is a 1969 365GT 2+2, which won its class at the FOC Concours last year. Having been derided for all the years I have owned the car, it is now accepted as a ‘good Ferrari’, but the truth is that, in comparison to most cars, all Ferraris are ‘good’ – it’s just the owners that let them down!
We all knew the bad press for the early Mondials, as did Ferrari SPA. Rather than ditching the model, Ferrari evolved it as fast as it could to make a vehicle worthy of the Prancing Horse. Forget ‘looks’ because that is personal, and the Mondial detractors’ main problem is that they have never driven a ‘t’ – or most likely are not good drivers.
The handling is absolutely par excellence and, most places I go, people tell me how great it looks, not realising that it is 28 years old. John Wallace London