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PHOTOS Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance WORDS Charles Fleming and David Undercoffler, LA Times

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1954 Ferrari 375 MM
originally built for Italian filmmaker Roberto
Rossellini was named
best of show at the
64th Annual Concours
d’Elegance in Pebble Beach, concluding the Monterey-area gathering of
the world’s most exotic and expensive automobiles.
Jon Shirley of Medina, Wash.,
owner of the winning silver Ferrari, ac-

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cepted the award from host Jay Leno,
himself a car collector and a longtime
Concours participant.
The car started life as a convertible, but was converted into a coupe
in 1955 for the director, Shirley said.
After buying it in 1995, Shirley spent
nearly two years researching and restoring the car -- then he did it again
after it “got beat up” in road rallies.
“The styling is very, very special,”
Shirley said. “I love to drive the car, and

it’s a very powerful car and all original
underneath.”
The car had been in pieces for a
quarter century before Shirley bought
it. A former Microsoft president and
board member, Shirley is an avid collector whose garage c ۝Z[