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In Reply to: OMG, can you imagine? posted by grailer on September 12, 2006 at 14:00:16:
Yeah. That's what you'd expect, sitting next to a vintage Ferrari. Kinda fun to speculate how this might happen.
Here's mine:
Perhaps a long deceased original owner, surviving family disinterested until they discover the cash value of the thing.
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I visited a home in Nashville a few years ago where there was a new Ferrari Testarossa sitting outside that was covered with leaves and mildew. I commented on the nice car to the lady of the house who explained that it was her birthday present to her husband who drove it only once because it was too hard to get in and out of. I told her that my birthday was soon, but she just smiled.To more people than you might think that turntable is nothing more than a trinket because everything is relative.
dated now, in a Countach sort of way. You know, veering towards a 16 year-old-kid's idea of a cool car.I'll admit, I liked the looks when they first came out, but then, I was a lot closer to sixteen.
I'd imagine in that kind of "Niche market" you have to have a firm hand on the markets pulse, so when the market research showed the
current Demographic trend shifting clearly away from the well heeled
car enthusiasts over to Hip Hop Artists, Producers Turntable Manufacturers and Cocaine Cowboys the design department had their work cut out for them and they came up with as tacky and gauche animage as they could in the time available.I don't know about you, but I cancelled my standing order and went the new Aston Martin Vanquish ;-)
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Sadly the closest I'll ever come to that kind of Iron is I was once rear ended on my Airhead by a Rolls Cor niche in Glennie Illinois, fortunately I can do an instinctive Aikaido Roll which I did, and managed to avoid getting nailed by the cross traffic, I was sitting against a tree with the shakes and the driver comes up in tears in considerably worse shape than I was, he was inconsolable I finally calmed him down assured him I was fine and my bike was fine I one of my Napoleon Bar-end Mirrors was toast and I had a broken clutch lever
he was on the brakes hard enough that his bumper hit my rear tire
he couldn't have been going much over 5 MPH enough to send me over the bars however, I talked him out of the Med Flight he was going to call in, told him $200 in cash and All's cool, I was telling him a joke when I finally glanced over and saw his car was a new Corniche
I told him "you're lucky UI didn't know I was being hit by a Rolls" he said why is that, I replied "I'd still be out in the intersection
screaming, Don't move me call my Lawyer ! I mean the Doctor", he laughed and said the joke would be on me as it was leased
The Testarossa always looked ridiculous to me, with all the slats or whatever along the sides of the car.But the original Countach LP400 (before all the wings and crap) was a great design, especially for the early 70s.
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Just add some gold chains and an eight-ball and you're there, dude.
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"Me? I pick up bent nails in parking lots."Me too. Straight nails and screws also. But the motive is to keep the air in my tires -- in my tires. 8-)
later,
-Steve
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