{"id":14238,"date":"2010-04-20T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T09:32:12","slug":"ferrari-gto-and-the-meaning-of-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/ferrari-gto-and-the-meaning-of-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari GTO and the Meaning of Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Md_jcC6OnIU?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and imagine hand-painting your 250 California Spider to look like a jeep!<\/p>\n<p>What may seem madness from the perspective of 2010 was all part of the gilded youth of a certain part of Southern California at the end of the sixties, as this home movie from Film Maker <a href=\"http:\/\/emcpb.blogspot.com\">Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s blog<\/a> documents in fascinating if wobbly beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about Mr Mitchell is that he doesn&#8217;t even try to hide his smugness when he casually mentions that he and his movie star mates were out in the Laurel Canyon driving a clutch of Modena&#8217;s most beautiful at the age when most of us were doing donuts in the Somerfield carpark in our dad&#8217;s Ford Escort.<\/p>\n<p>But look, just look at those GTOs. 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