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"Because you know," Jaroslav continued, "it's really difficult to remember, and everyone at that time was fiddling. Somehow, something, to buy the car, eventually find a sponsor, which in fact never exists in these times, your sponsors came from America to Europe. Even my car in the Mexico race, my Porsche wore no ads on it. The Hans Herman car was full of painting for Telefunken. I was so stupid. The people from Bull, they are some computer people, they came to me and offered me fifteen hundred dollars, if I agree to paint on the car the Bull sign. I said 'no my dear, no one touches the car. My car is virgin and no one touches it.' The car didn't even belong to me, (laughter) it belonged to Ferry Porsche. Ferry send me over the car. I was delegated the responsibility to win the race. Not to scratch the body. Not to break the engine. And send the money to Ferry Porsche. So I never get my car painted with any advertising.
"This is very good…And I say to the Bull people, 'Look I have a friend here, with an Alfa Romeo. I was selling Alfa Romeos, I sold it to him, and the official Alfa Romeo team was running their 1900 four door limousines, and I told them 'He is totally without money, not a penny in the pocket, so go to him and put the Bull on his car'. So they did, for five hundred dollars, the gangsters. But they had so much advertising with him because, in the first place he put the ad on the roof, nothing happened to Cerezo (the driver), but the car was totally damaged, and the Bull sign traveled all around the world as a newspaper photograph."
(Laughter)
Jaroslav placed his virgin bodied 550 spyder, number 012, fourth over all:
1954 Carrera Panamericana.
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