David Rosenthal

to this very day, is in the small little hamlet of Maranello, not in the bigger city of Modena.

So even despite the move to Maranello, the factory does get bombed twice during the last days of the war.

After the war, that leaves Enzo kind of at a crossroads.

The factory is not quite in ruins, but

It's been bombed.

Disarray.

Disarray.

Significant disarray.

Disarray.

And he's just spent the last four or five years building machine tools and gotten pretty good at it.

Yep.

And then Enzo gets a visit from an old racing pal, an Italian, but one who spent the war not in Europe, but in exile in America.

Luigi Canetti, the man who brings Ferrari to America.

So Luigi and Enzo met way back when Enzo joined the Alfa Romeo racing team as a driver.

And Luigi was a mechanic on the team who also then became a driver.

And he ends up in New York.

And when the war is over, Luigi goes back to Italy to visit Enzo.

And he tells him,

So this is a quote here from Brock Yates's biography of Enzo.

Brock Yates was the longtime editor of Car and Driver magazine.