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Probably a repost, but it's still cool...

The legendary Ferrari F40 supercar has celebrated its 20th anniversary in real style this year with a series of very spectacular events held across Western Europe and North America; and now Japan has got in on the act with an event held at Mount Fuji.

When it was introduced in 1987 (with its production of 1,315 units running through to 1992) the F40 was the fastest, most powerful and most expensive Ferrari sportscar ever to come out of the gates of Maranello factory.

The 'no compromise' F40 with its potent 2.9 litre V8 twin turbo engine has since then entered Ferrari 'folklaw' and its 20th anniversary celebrations this year, running alongside the marque's 60th anniversary programme, has seen a string of events being held to honour the timeless supercar. One of the celebratory events was the showing 40 cars that Ferrari GB and the Ferrari Owners' Club gathered together at Silverstone this summer, the red coloured cars then parading round the famous circuit.

As the year draws to a conclusion it is the turn of Japanese owners to come together this month with a spectacular display of these awesome machines. In superb weather conditions on 2nd December, no less than 36 F40s, including several examples of the F40 LM race-bred version, gathered for a trip down the expressway to Mount Fuji, delighting onlookers who had turned out to see this glorious cavalcade in motion of what is regarded as Ferrari's most evocative modern day sportscars.

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The black one is NUTS! As is this one..

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The black one is owned by Koji Aoyama, a rich Japanese gay dude...

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His collection:

http://supercarfreak.net/gallery/album977

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