JACKSON IS A 9-year-old boy who lives in my neighborhood. “Can you get a Ferrari?” he asked me not long ago. Why, yes, in fact I’m expecting a delivery from the big red stork any day. And now a Ferrari Portofino grand touring convertible is parked in front of my house, and so is Jackson, not infrequently, just staring at it. To watch him walk around this $285,000 moonraker—“like the 812 Superfast,” he notes, with the engine in front, “not the F8 Tributo”—is to meet myself 50 years ago, a child...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 23, 2020 18:56 UTC