Enzo Ferrari always signed his name in purple ink. It was a colour that he had a particular nostalgia for, being the hue of the carbon paper with which his father used to copy letters — a magical process that entranced him as a child. His other trademark was a distinctive pair of sunglasses, without which he would never be seen in public. Both the purple ink-filled fountain pen and the dark black wayfarers now sit like papal relics in a glass case in the Enzo Ferrari Museum, which has just opened in his hometown of Modena. Next to the sunglasses, a telling caption reads: "The very fact that meeting his gaze without 'barriers' was a privilege says a great deal about the psychology of a person who was very proud of his uniqueness."
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