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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines3/18/2010 12:28:26 pm PDT

I’ve gone major fatcat on y’all, with shades of oil potentate thrown in.
I bought a car.

Yep, an honest-to-T.E. Lawrence Rolls-Royce of all things.
It smells like leather to most people but to me it smells like history- Lawrence cruising the desert shooting up Turks from his armored Silver Ghost, the scream of Merlins in the summer of 1940, etc.
This particular one is from 1969, before the bankruptcy and the aircraft engine division separation, let alone the take-over by the accursed Huns Germans (VW first and now BMW).
Older, used RRs are actually pretty affordable but maintenance costs are something else again and you have to know both a competent mechanic and the market before you dive in.