David Rosenthal

And it was a way to signal to the market, like, hey, I might be open to a deal.

So all the Ford versus Ferrari drama was going down between the years of 1963 and call it 1966, 67.

Yep.

Through all this, Enzo's doing great.

He's in his late 60s at this point, but he's loving life as much as Enzo is capable of loving life.

He's healthy.

He's reinvigorated by this battle.

Everything's going great.

And then after all the Ford drama,

In 1968, Enzo contracts kidney disease.

And it's pretty bad.

Like, he thinks...

this is probably actually going to be the end.

And statistically, he was right.

Yeah.

And it gets so bad, as we'll see in a moment, that shortly after this in 1970, he goes into organ failure and has to be hospitalized for months.

Like he really should have died at this point in time.

But as always for Enzo, fate has other plans.

So once he comes down with the disease, he gets serious about actually selling the company and he sniffs around.

He talks to his old buddies at Alfa Romeo and they sort of work on a deal not to Enzo's liking.