# @roadandtrack on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdtyUCyoBKi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71001438-roadandtrack-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-25T15:30:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Road & Track Magazine (@roadandtrack) — https://gondola.cc/roadandtrack

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#flashbackfriday to Volume 9 of Road & Track to editor-in-chief Dan Pund's story from our 'The Day I Met My Hero' series. Dan got to spend time with his childhood dream car, the 1991 Ferrari Testarossa.
 
"Several years ago, I found myself behind the oddly canted steering wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa (red, of course). So comprehensively did the Testarossa upset the prevailing design orthodoxy when it arrived in 1985 that the sound I associate with it is not the exhaust noise of its flat-12 engine but that of a loud needle scratch. Its crazy cheese-grater side strakes and its absurdly wide, flat, louvered rump made such a deep psychological impact in the period that the design has become as much a visual shorthand for the Eighties as Patrick Nagel’s prints of women with spiky hair and stark white skin. The Testarossa appeared on the cover of this magazine 10 times from December 1984 through July 1989. Every one of them was red, and I had every one of those issues.
 
I love it for different reasons than teenage me thought I would. In a world of electric sedans with four-digit horsepower figures and Toyota Camrys that would whup a Jaguar E-type, the Testarossa’s raw performance no longer inspires awe. Its appeal is more about rediscovering the tactility and linearity that’s been lost over the years. "
 
You can read our full story on Dan's love for the 1991 Ferrari Testarossa at the link in our bio.
 
#ferrari #testarossa #carsofinstagram #roadandtrack
Photos by puppyknuckles

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