I have to assume that was intentional!
I think that walking through your car barns would feel like walking around Pebble Beach to me!
It's better than Pebble Beach, 'cause I can touch 'em, climb inside 'em, drive 'em, lift up their hoods, climb underneath 'em!
While it might be silly, I can even take 'em and put 'em on a track (with a wide variety of performance results) and have my own goddamned historic racing.
I've got my own private museum. I own cars that museums would buy from me. I own cars that museums would curate and show for me.
My car collection increases in value better than other investments. I never put all my eggs in one basket, but I'm willing to really put my money where my mouth is and invest in the things I think are valuable.
They're great on every level.
If I wait a year, they're 'long term gains' and my tax rate on the earnings is like 13%. It's like 15% at the most.
Hell fucking yeah!
Way better then Pebble Beach!
Goddamned right.
My cars have the added benefit that they're not owned by a snob.
So long as you do what I say, I have been known to let people climb in my cars. I've taken pretty much strangers for drives.
If you're wearing like a chain wallet or something, I don't want you anywhere near my paint. But, at the same time, for like 80% of what I own I'd happily do a burnout and risk scratching it with rocks.
Fuck, I took a $240,000 Porsche GT2 down a dirt road with ruts and small holes at 90 to 100 mph for parts of it. That's not even set up for rally. It was/is a street Porsche GT2. I probably hit as high as 110 once or twice. I covered the entire stretch of road, like 4.5 miles in just over 4 minutes. I timed myself on the way back but had to stop because of traffic. I thought about passing them rally style, but I couldn't trust the other driver to stay in their lane. It was barely room for 2.5 cars much of the way. One of the corners is a giant 100' clearing so I take that 90° corner at like 65 MPH with my ass end out the whole way.
I did that with a car most people will never own. There are people who hang pictures of that same car on their wall as a dream car.
I thrashed it down a dirt road on the day I was meant to turn it back into the mechanics. (It was fine. It just needed a cleaning.)
So...
Yeah...
Lemme see 'em do that at Pebble Beach.`
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