‘I was born in a castle near Ferrara, where my father was the estate manager and owned a vineyard,’ Lodi says. ‘I was never expected to work for a living.’ But the free-spirited Sandra left home at 18 to see the world. Along the way, she made a friend who owned a Morgan – an early British-made sports car. ‘That was the beginning of my love for cars,’ she says.
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