Exotic sports cars are to be found everywhere these days, not least in America. But things were different back in the spring of 1952 -  so when 14-year-old Ronald C Hill heard the news that Colorado's first-ever Ferrari had landed in his home town of Denver, he grabbed his box camera, jumped on his bicycle and set-off to see it.

The car in question was the very 340 America pictured here, flown in by Douglas DC-6 from the Big Apple where official Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti had shown it off at the 1952 New York Auto Show before freighting it to the marque's newly-appointed Western representative George Joseph jnr  - who promptly slapped a $20,000 price tag on the windscreen, the equivalent of around 10 times as much in today's money.