Please allow an indelicate question; are you rich? I don’t mean like, have money in the bank, or are rich in love, I mean are you filthy, I couldn’t spend it all if I tried, rich. If you are the latter, then I have another question for you. Even if, like me, you do not fit the required criteria, well, feel free to play along.
Rich people can do anything. Seriously, you want to fly to Paris for lunch? Done. Organize a hunt of the last Loch Ness Monster just because? Why not. The only thing that most people ask of the obscenely wealthy is that they use their money for good and not for evil, and what could be a better use than commissioning a modern interpretation of a classic car, just for your own entertainment?
We’ve seen the results of just such an effort a couple of years ago when BOSE CEO and auto enthusiast Michael Stoschek got to talking with designer Chris Hrabalek about building a new Lancia Stratos. The Ferrai-based upshot of that discussion got a lot of other enthusiasts salivating, and it is only one of several reinventions of great old cars taken on by private – and super rich – individuals, fed up that the marque’s original maker has not seen fit to do so. If you are so inclined, and of the means, what classic cars would you reimagine, and how would you do so.
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