This day in 1988, Enzo Ferrari died at the age of 90 – “I am an agitator of men.”

Enzo Ferrari declaimed that he ever possessed any genius as a driver or as a mechanical engineer and that his gift was in getting the people around him to offer their best, even if it took making them angry to do so.

Below, Enzo Ferrari explains the unlikely source of his inspiration for Ferrari’s traditional 12-cylinder engines.