In 2012, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray profiled famed car collector, Jon Shirley. Ever gracious with his time, our extensive interview with Shirley touched on a variety of automotive topics, such as buying his first collector car, personally restoring his Ferrari NART Spider, his favorite cars to race and why he would sell a car from this collection. If you haven’t done so already, please take time to enjoy our wide-ranging interview and profile.
Hired by Bill Gates in 1983 as President of Microsoft, Shirley’s most notable success was guiding the thriving technology company through its wildly successful initial public offering. He left the company after seven years, deciding “there was a whole mess of other things that I wanted to do with my life.” To the benefit of Sports Car Digest readers, this “mess of other things” would thankfully include gathering and vintage racing a staggering collection of pre-war Alfa Romeos, post-war Ferraris and significant race and street cars from the 1950s, ’60s and beyond.
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