And, despite all F40s that rolled out of the factory only in red, they decided to paint it black. The Gas Monkey Garage Ferrari F40 was sold for $742,500 at auction in 2014, but just a year later ...

However, both Corriere della Sera newspaper and another Italian publication, Autosprint, claim Hamilton actually asked Ferrari if the F40 could be in black – not its iconic scarlet red.

The all-black F40 featured extensive upgrades to all of its components, improvements that came along with the repairs they did to it, as it was in a badly damaged state when they first got hold of it.

While playing for Napoli in 1986, Maradona drove a black Ferrari Testarossa, but he was after a Ferrari F40 in the weeks leading up to the World Cup in Mexico. The car was valued at 500,000 ...