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Auto repaint job?

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During the first two seasons and two episodes of the third season, Detective Sonny Crockett drove a midnight black 1972 Ferrari Daytona Spyder 365 GTS/4 with a Florida license plate ZAQ178, until it was blown to pieces with a hand held stinger missile launcher during an illegal arms deal. Lt. Castillo told a still-grieving Crockett to check back for his new car. Sonny was greeted by a white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa, with a Florida license plate ATF00M. In reality, Don Johnson did not actually drive a Ferrari in the first two seasons. It was a 1980 Chevrolet Corvette C3 that had been modified with Ferrari-designed body panels by specialty car manufacturer McBurnie. As legend has it, Michael Mann spotted the car in a used car lot some time prior to shooting the pilot movie and thought it would look nice in the series. For publicity reasons and because they were unhappy with a fake getting this much attention and being portrayed as a bona fide Ferrari, the automaker donated two brand new Testarossas. One of them was partly stripped and modified and placed on a camera truck, while the other one could be seen in regular scenes. They were delivered in black but were repainted white to show up better in night scenes. For the more risky stunt scenes, yet another fake was used, this time a DeTomaso Pantera fitted with Testarossa body panels.

— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)