[LostPony]

A number of years ago I cruised by the Ferrari of Washington DC dealer with my then 14yo son. We were in the 97 Miata I owned at the time that had a rollbar and a few little things done to it, but nothing special. At the time FoW was in a kind of business park with no outside display area, and a very cramped showroom. I had never ventured inside but had noticed on previous drives out there that you could go around back and sometimes spot some cool stuff in the alley behind their building.

This time was no different. My son and I thought we hit the mega load when there was an F40 out front until we spotted a couple Challenge cars when we drove around back. One of them had "Mario Andretti" over the driver's door.

I told my son, "Touch that car!"
Him, "Why"
Me, "Because then you can say you touched Mario's Ferrari!"

About the time my son laid both hands on the car a man came out the back. He complimented my little Miata and struck up a conversation with me. Eventually he led my son and I into the showroom and let us look over all the cars. Then he topped that by giving us a personal tour of the back area, the Race Shop!.

We had a great time and it turned out that the man who showed us around, was the then owner of Ferrari of Washington. A very nice guy!

Fast forward a number of years and I'm in the new Ferrari of Washington showroom in Dulles with my then 3yo daughter killing time. She walks straight over to a new Gallardo, reaches up and pulls herself up by the sideview mirror. I shrieked like a horror movie teenybopper and ran over and detached her from the car! We promptly left!