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Native son of Cooperstown NY. Photos are mine unless otherwise cited. Started my own company, yet I should've been an architect. Love traveling ❤️

Chicago but love Middleburg VA
Joined February 2014
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2 months
From someone back in Cooperstown. A moment of bliss from this morning with the Lake dubbed by James Fenimore Cooper as ‘Glimmerglass’ ❤️
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@visegrad24 Ukraine: "We need missiles" Norway: "Sorry we cannot provide that, but enjoy this TikTok of an adorable dog sent aloft with balloons"
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@danielrskinner James Douglas Morrison, 27. Writing songs, poetry & performing. Gobs of talent.
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@RufusTSuperfly Dafoe after Pattinson rambled on
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@madrid_mike Are they envious of the lighthearted Sanders memes?
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11 months
@JFrankensteiner Gosling is just so much more the acting talent. The Place Beyond The Pines, The Nice Guys, Drive. Those three films alone show great range in character development - and tower over the entire film career of Reynolds.
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@TheBeatWithAri This is why Ari Melber's The Beat is the best show around. Intelligent dialogue, won't let guests off the hook, and he keeps probing. Ari at the wrap: "A lot of what you've said here doesn't add up"
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2 years
A lot stupid talk involving Flightline besting Spectacular Bid. I’ll put this out there: 31% of Bid’s victories [8 of 26] he matched or set a track record. I haven’t seen anything like that in my lifetime before or since - nor will I ever. Absolute titan of horse racing 🏇
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@RonanFarrow There doesn’t seem to be much remorse. I fully expect the FBI to treat her as any other violent offender who committed such crimes.
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2 years
Lovely to see that the Shark @jhanlonracing dedicated the Grand National victory to the late young lad Jack de Bromhead - who died tragically this summer. Very nice post race interview with @mig4450
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@earlyamhistory @prof_gabriele The voicemail box was full too
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4 years
A long time Ferrari owner, Clint Eastwood turns 90 today. Shown with his 1978 308 GTB. After 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' (1966), producer Dino de Laurentiis' Polar Films bought a 275 GTB in Rome that went to Clint. [Photos: the Clint Eastwood Archive]
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@vividcloudofwat Back in Sep 2019 at an impromptu car show in Florence: that 1972 Marciano 268a - just one ever made - with its V8 Alfa Romeo engine.
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@JimLNeibaur Great to hear he’s well! His acting pal Gary Sinise posted this a few years ago from 2000 while in Chicago
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2000 - Photo shoot with an acting hero, #GeneHackman , in Chicago. #ThrowbackThursday
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@zoelouisesmithx Her delight continued from the paddock to the trophy presentation. Honest joy from The Queen that was palpable [Photo credit: Max Mumby/Indigo | Getty Images]
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3 years
@ldbahr @SpiroAgnewGhost @AP Stripes, Old School, Private Parts, Dave, Up In The Air … May he Rest In Peace
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1 year
@ATRightMovies @jaketapper Huge credit to cinematographer Gregg Toland for many innovative shots (w/ Welles’ direction) in Citizen Kane. Sadly he died at just 44-yrs old.
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@Beccamford “At your highest moment the devil comes for you” - Denzel to Will
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@julsrich @tcm Rebecca. The performance of Dame Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers
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2 years
@AngelaLMorabito Well deserved firm rebuke back on September 9, 2002. Happy Birthday to a national hero like Buzz!
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@AnthonyFarnell Reminds me when future America’s Cup winning skipper Ted Turner sailed in the Race to Mackinac. Bruce Kirby an Olympic sailor & designer of the Laser sailing craft:
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@TheRickWilson @nypmetro That means buy more ads in Times Square! Tick tock to the family of grifters. #LincolnProject 🏴‍☠️
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3 years
@succscript Ken's reply
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@RufusTSuperfly Wow. I could never imagine that movie without Sydney Pollack.
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@ajrobertshaw I’ve watched almost every Hot Ones guest and nobody ever consumed so much hot sauce. He was devoted to his bit 👏
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3 years
@BeschlossDC @JoshMankiewicz Should’ve opted for LBJ’s FIAT Jolly! July 5, 1969: LBJ, Yuki, daughter Luci, and grandson Patrick Lyndon (Credit @LBJLibrary )
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3 years
While indulging in the topic of neighborhood architecture I went by our prior house on N Bissell St. The block isn’t landmarked, no real protections from developers, & a lot of college renters. IMHO one of the prettiest in Lincoln Park.
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5 years
@lordandtyler Her explanation of the event is rather remarkable and very British.
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2 years
@michaeldweiss @jaketapper You had me at this 😂 General Pavel the 300 quarter pounder
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Already filming this morning #TheBear on Southport. No, Portofino didn’t get the crew’s breakfast. Interior filming at present in one of the older row houses.
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@THR Sad to learn of Bruce's condition and hoping that with a diagnosis may come some help. Memory loss and communication is an extremely brutal way to rob anyone of their identity.
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3 years
The destruction of Lincoln Park (Chicago) continues. Impending tear down of 2236 N Kenmore. c1886 sold Aug 18, 2021 for $2,060,000
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Interior filming for @TheBearFX right now in Lincoln Park. They look ready for evening shots with lots of aerial lighting. Maybe night as day camera work 🤔
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@RufusTSuperfly [A young Jack Warner seen here]
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@nocontextroyco Roman in his consoling, "I mean, who hasn't clipped the odd kid with a Porsche, am I right? I mean, it's like a rite of passage. I've killed a kid too, big deal. Shiv, 'you've killed a kid, right?'"
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8 years
Canonero II really was an imposing solid horse. Source/credit Bert Morgan Archive. The day prior to 1971 Preakness in the winners circle
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5 years
@NathanBrimmer Old Yeller
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@latimes @JoshMankiewicz Driver “asleep” is all part of the heist
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2 years
@Aviation_Intel If only one of these just happened to pass through Ukrainian airspace - sight unseen - courtesy of Northrop Grumman
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@SorenSpicknall To be fair Darren was running for Governor in a state he pronounced it as ‘Allen-noy’ … wherever the heck that is. 🗳
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@JeremyAdamRoss Magnum wishes everyone here in Chicago well
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3 years
Worth appreciating what Richard Driehaus left Chicago w/ architecture. The Driehaus Museum (in Samuel Nickerson House c1883) & his investment firm based in the Cable House c1886 by Cobb & Frost. The coach house (offices now) is magnificent.
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6 years
Looks like the pre-awards dinner banquet has been laid out. Invitees included Wesley Ward's 2-yr #hamberder ... Massive amounts of fast food (Jason PAID). Ready for the #BeemieAwards - Good Luck to all. @BeemieAwards
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3 years
@ThatEricAlper Nobody in the history of music has a peer: Ludwig van Beethoven
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11 months
Random - but remarkable - residential architecture here in Lincoln Park. I implore people to stop & appreciate what is too often taken for granted around you.
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3 years
Another Lincoln Park structure (circa 1886) being razed: 2044 N Fremont. Sold 2/16/21 $1,350,000. Demo just started this afternoon.
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@CrainsChicago Maybe if Jim Oberweis was focused on the business vs plowing a fortune into numerous political offices and losing time after time 🤔 Sure he landed a couple of State legislator seats but gotta focus on milk, man.
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3 years
@filming_chicago The Chicago PD set on Dickens within the hour. This house (on left) which is the oddest modern house in Lincoln Park is the focus. Heavy duty lights out for evening filming.
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It appears well-made grey stone old homes in Lincoln Park are often torn down for ugly new ones. Rehab it? Nah, just build a new box there with “massive private outdoor space”. Wild stuff 😕 Latest entry: 855 W Lill
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4 years
@FAFBulldog @ItaliAuto Wicked find in the barn. Although nothing will ever surpass the discovered Dino buried in Los Angeles [in Green, restored, today]
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4 years
@KFaulders @SpiroAgnewGhost It’s repugnant and beneath the dignity of the office that the POTUS tweets this tripe. Not even a PAC should be stooping to this. Americans - of all ages - aren’t fodder for cheap mockery to gain reelection.
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2 years
@espn Rafa sadly should've bowed out in his last match. Nick doesn't deserve that stage whatsoever.
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1 year
@ThatEricAlper “Hungry Like the Wolf” (1982) was filmed in Sri Lanka & marginally based visually upon the mega hit film ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981)
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5 years
@TheMattydor83 @RGW_News At least $600 for that ride. I hope he rates his driver five stars
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2 years
Filming tonight & until a little after 1:00am w/ wrap being a walking scene on Webster. The crew so nice to Portofino! Filming scenes where a murder will have occurred in that house (Earlier was ‘day as night’ filming) #ChicagoPD
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8 years
Going to the office & walking through a Chicago Fire filming shoot @filming_chicago
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@RufusTSuperfly “My motto is, if you want people to think you’re successful then you need the blue”
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5 years
@DRIVETRIBE @LienhardRacing Michelotto prepped Ferrari 308 GTB Group 4 spec runners were rare but successful & sleek. (Photo by Robb Pritchard)
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@nocontextroyco I know I've dealt (sadly) with folks that clearly have obtained their degree there.
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1 year
It’s @jockeykdavis on #8 Quickflash
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6 months
And 327 W Armitage (Lincoln Park) was razed this week - “just because” 🫠
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7 months
@53viroqua A shame with 327 W Armitage. It was bought cheap - closed $800k Jan 29th - and while in rough shape inside the exterior tuck pointing and foundation was/is good. (Photos from Oct 2023)
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2 years
@CWBChicago Disgusting, again, how light Foxx’s office is on crime. A Latin King gang member given just a 25-hour community service? What a disgrace.
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2 years
Filming @TheBearFX by St. Josaphat Church / School in Lincoln Park. That’s actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“Richie”) plus our Portofino pup. Scene is dropping off daughter & getting pizza @PequodsPizza
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@DominicGwinn @CWBChicago The owner - 3rd generation owner of the store. He says they’ll rebuild.
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@Eric_Erins It happened when they switched to RH only as their name. They have several of these showcase luxe places that are Ralph Lauren / RL heavily influenced. Credit to them saving the Three Arts Club as it was a proposed mausoleum (not kidding); RH in Indianapolis converted a mansion
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5 years
@DRFLivingston Francis Hertzfeld aka "Pickles" the Whitney stable groom [Photo by Ray Woolfe Jr; Sports Illustrated, March 1965]
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8 years
Art Rooney, founder of @steelers , was able to afford the $2,500 NFL franchise fee only after a long shot wager Saratoga Race Course in 1933.
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@bobvarsha I’m waiting for Jeff to further state ‘do you even know who David Hobbs is’? 😂
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4 months
Crisp morning walk on North Dayton St. This old school brick works so well with architectural detailing.
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7 years
I truly hope #Irma avoids #turksandcaicos as they're not only one of the most beautiful places to visit but such low ground. Grace Bay.
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2 years
Another Lincoln Park home at risk of being razed “just because” … it’s perverse. 2240 N. Burling. Photo taken June, 2022; property sold Sep 26th
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Shame on @AldKnudsen43 & @thadwong , co-CEO of @properties , for wanting to destroy a piece of history & perfectly fine multi-unit home for supposedly another SIDE YARD! If that’s what you want, move to the burbs. The 1876 Italianate at 2240 N. Burling has a 90-Day Demolition Delay
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@ThatEricAlper Peter Gabriel’s 1977 solo first album
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10 years
One year ago tomorrow (12/22) @CalChrome won the last stakes race ever run at Hollywood Park. What a year for Chrome! http://t.co/pVyH8VR6JA
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3 years
@CWBChicago Cold temps, lower crime?
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@chicagobars A man of the people - refreshingly he walks in the St Patrick's Parade to be among the citizens
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@HagertyUK @LienhardRacing Yes! Verde Nijinsky (named for the race horse) color on a 1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4
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3 years
Visually stunning & simply timeless #246Dino
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Happy #FerrariFriday All :)
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2 years
@carinaleegee @retrologist1 That 213-acre property, formerly owned by WaPo owner & designed by the great architect Charles Platt, is at the center of much of the painfully obvious financial valuation shenanigans.
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@filming_chicago They’re filming in my hood again this week. Maybe we’ll spy Ebon Moss-Bachrach as we did last time for the ‘Pequods episode’
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4 years
@ThatEricAlper Steve Winwood of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith plus solo career.
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@ghrighri_chri @__dotblake @LienhardRacing @ItaliAuto It’s different. Every exotic car is looking the same these day. Also the P72 earned the approval of Peter Brock designer of the original De Tomaso-Shelby P70. (Photo of P70 by Brock)
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1 year
It's March 28th so Happy 3-28 for those who get it! GTS in Verde Scuro
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4 years
@Chicago_Scanner @CWBChicago Is that Ham Porter from The Sandlot now as an adult?
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The restoration progress of 2114 N Lincoln Ave (c1881) is quite nice. Last sold in 2015 when it was in *very* rough shape. Used briefly in the movie ‘U.S. Marshals” (2008). A great example of saving a home in Lincoln Park. (Photos from today)
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5 years
@CWBChicago A 36-yr old asks for directions in 2019 despite having on board navigation & any mobile device? #doesntaddup
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@53viroqua Damn. I was worried about it as it closed Oct 2023 (just under $1M) and no renovation, no moving in, no activity. We walk by it three times a day & it is a fine building. 919 W Belden alas another Lincoln Park building to razed 🤷‍♂️
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5 years
@royalpratt NBC5’s Phil Rogers posting in response was spot on. ‘That’s your job’
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@CWBChicago When he returned to the precinct after his shift 👏
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4 years
@TheRickWilson Womp womp to those ruffled feathers. Rick, hit them harder!
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4 years
@Rinoire @ItaliAuto There is one for sale @rmsothebys Essen w/no reserve rescheduled tentatively late June 2020; 14th of 207 made. photo Remi Dargegen:
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3 years
@MichelleStenzel Is Geraldo back in town?
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4 years
@DominicGwinn @CWBChicago Central Camera, 230 S Wabash, “Storied family-owned camera shop selling equipment, film & hard-to-find items since 1899”
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5 years
The ROKEBY stable's broodmare barn now temp living units for horticultural students @oak_spring #StableTour #uppervilleVA - Paul Mellon's legacy (& Bunny's) embraced with names of homebread runners & silk colors #SeaHereo #KeysToTheMint #MillReef #FitToFight #Quadrangle
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8 years
Rather sorry to hear of singer #DavidCassidy revealing an onset of dementia. A long time race horse owner, supporter, fan & Saratogian
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@JFrankensteiner “Although shopping with Peter at the A&P for catsup [sic] … I felt poor” ☺️
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@RadioFreeTom And off Carla goes on your Magic Carpet Ride
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@ChicagoFails White Hen Pantry back in the day
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@Aviation_Intel Little rocket man checks his knockoff Fitbit: “you’ve walked 400 feet today”
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@Rockstarscars @MotoringEvents @LAJwriter @StuartPenney1 @nottco @beatlesinthe60s @londonbeatles @LienhardRacing @BHPHangar @BlackTopMediaUK @James_Walshe A loss for us all. Interestingly John bought this (RHD) 1965 Ferrari 330GT 2+2 a month after getting his UK drivers license & having the hit song ‘Ticket to Ride’
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