The Impossibly Cool Enzo Ferrari
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We will never be this cool. And that’s okay.
Photograph taken September 1965, Bergamo, Italy.
© Manuel Litran
Reading time: less than a minute.
We will never be this cool. And that’s okay.
Photograph taken September 1965, Bergamo, Italy.
© Manuel Litran
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