The text message arrived at 8.16pm on a Saturday.

It was my cousin Mark, who I had last seen in April.

“There’s a Ferrari in South Australia you might be interested in. Wondering if you remember it used to be silver?”

36 years after he sold his 1963 Ferrari 250GTE, Silvio Massola’s Ferrari is back on sale for just less than $1 million. His grandsons James Massola and Mark Viggiani paid it a visit at Richmond Motors in Adelaide. Credit: Ben Searcy

Our grandfather, Silvio Massola, had once owned a Ferrari though my memory of it was hazy.

Silvio had been a successful mechanic, entrepreneur and racing car driver who had raced in the 1953 Grand Prix at Albert Park, at Bathurst and more, in cars he had built and upgraded himself.

Carlo (left), James (aged 3) and Silvio Massola and one

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