What amazes me about the whole thing is the location of the museum. Having
live in and frequented the western slope of Colorado for most of my life I
can only think of one or two more isolated places in the area. This place is
fifty miles out of Grand Junction on the way to,,,well no place special.
It's a long way around to avoid the higher passes of the San Juans in the
winter (and kind of a nice Healey road actually). While the scenery is
beautiful you need to understand that Gateway is WAY off the beaten path. I
suppose The next thing will be a Starbucks in Uravan and a Hard Rock Cafe in
Naturita.
Still I think I'll look it over while it's there.
Bill Lawrence
>From: Editorgary@aol.com
>Reply-To: Editorgary@aol.com
>To: healeys@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: The Guy in the Ferrari Cap
>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:06:32 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/23/06 7:30:48 AM, owner-healeys-digest@autox.team.net
>writes:
>
>
> > I agree with you on this. I find it strange that someone would pay
>$131k
> > for a car that was not originally golden. I thought that the real big
>dollars
> > went for cars which were complete, rare, and restored as original to a
>very
> > high standard.
> >
> > If the buyer wanted a golden BJ8 seems to me he/she could buy one and
>have
> > it restored to the same level for considerably less than $141k.
> >
> > But on the other hand, as someone else pointed out you have the
>excitement
> > of the auction/adrenaline/alcohol/impressing others/etc going on.
> >
>It puzzles me that no one has done any kind of an in-depth discussion of
>the
>guy in the Ferrari cap. Last year he was the fellow who paid over 3 million
>for a one-off Oldsmobile(?) concept car, for some museum, (how can a museum
>justify spending 3 mill on one car, and one that will be interesting to
>only
>one
>type of car enthusiast?) and this year he was back in the fray, paying
>ridiculous prices for cars that I would argue are either not museum
>material
>or if
>they are, could be duplicated for the museum for 1/3 their cost (the Golden
>Beige
>Healey). Is he the pointy end of some sort of money-laundering or tax
>write-off scheme?
>Who even knows who he is?
>Cheers
>Gary
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