On October 30, Diego Maradona turned 58, and we remember his story with the Ferrari Testarossa which he acquired shortly after becoming champion of the world with Argentina in Mexico 1986.
Maradona spoke with Guillermo Coppola, who was his representative, to ask for a black Ferrari, when the Italian brand only generated cars in red.
The car was paid for by Corrado Ferlaino, president of Napoli at that time, and it cost him 430 thousand dollars.
"It was worth $430,000 but I spent double the expense and added 130,000 to the painting," Ferlaino recalled.
''Diego asked about the stereo and I told him it didn't have one... it's a race car.
"No air conditioning, nothing, and he said 'well, put it all in'..."
Despite the lack of what the Argentinian considered basic luxuries, Maradona still kept the black Ferrari, a model that had first been made for Sylvester Stallone, and then Michael Jackson, who made his convertible.
The 1987 Testarossa, with white leather upholstery and just 20,200 kms as detailed by autoblog, was in the possession of a Spanish collector of high-end cars until 2014 when he decided to sell for 250,000 euros.