Customer that do NOT know me too well sent emails saying things like "Gee, Austin, they still have the freedom to do what they like"...
but, of course, people that know me know that I would not care one bit if people got chauffeured around by purple-striped monkeys with jetpacks,
if that is what pleased them! Those people knew from my comments that I had just gotten a Ferrari for myself, and one especially intuitive
customer even intuited that it was a 360 Modena! Not bad! He was right! Here is a single pic, and a link to a history of my cars, if you are interested.

(PS: I will soon publish an "Austin's Adventure" on picking up the car, which also involved 2 Cirrus flights and a trip to the amazing Air and Space Smithsonian Museum Udvar Hazy Wing)

Note: Minutes after this picture was taken, a WHOLE HORDE of kindergardeners was let out of the school in the background and attacked the cars like a swarm of locusts... we had about 7 of them in the Vette and 3 or 4 in the Ferrari all at once.. they were climbing into the baggage compartment in the back of the Vette and squeezing 4-at-a-time into the cockpits... when cleaning out the cars later, I could distinctly see footprints and dead grass all over the baggage compartment of the Vette! They had to crawl over the seats to get back there! Once, when letting little kids play in my Cirrus, I afterwards found FOOTPRINTS ON THE CEILING!!! I AM NOT KIDDING! 4 little kids have gotten Ferrari-rides so far (with parents permission) and there will be many more of course.

austin