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Are you warm? Are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Well, they did at least start it for the video.
And it looks like they hired Steven Spielberg to make that video.
I still don't know what to think about cars like this. I'm not so sure that any of us would 'drive the piss out of it' if we managed to accumulate the resources to own it. Why would we? When we could roll out one of the more athletic mounts in our stable any time we wanted to.
It's art. It's history. It's great engineering. It should be preserved, but maybe in a way that is accessible to the public.
Should we ridicule the folks who collect these things just because they can and do?
Wouldn't we if we had the chance?
Their financial advisors tell them this is not a bad thing to do with money. And why not have some fun with it while we're still young? Even if 'having fun' just means sticking it to the Van Wyckoff's in a sporting kind of way?
This is a very nice car that I am secretly glad is not being driven too hard at this point in its life.
I will probably think of it for a moment or two the next time I'm pushing my little plastic re-creation briskly through the wine country.
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