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“Gone from today's high society are top hats, white gloves, ascots and canes when you don't have a limp. One instead desires to appear "down to Earth" despite one's stock market blessings, inheritance or other means of gathering What It Takes To Get Along. An exception is made for whoever purchases Rolls-Royce's $479,775 (that's the base price) Phantom Drop Head Coupe, which might as well come with its own team of nymphs running alongside the car tossing garlands all around and a fellow in tights out in front blowing a heralding trumpet.”

Some cars become collector car market darlings because they’re a hoot to drive. That got us asking the age-old question: Does the driving experience truly match the hype? Matthew Ivanhoe, noted collector in his own right and owner/operator of The Cultivated Collector in New Canaan, Connecticut, helped us pursue the answer by offering time behind the wheel of a triad of Bring a Trailer-bound 1990s Japanese classics that represent the very apex of the segment: a 1994 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec II N1, a 1996 Honda Integra Type R, and a Honda NSX-R.”

“At this year’s Monterey sales, someone famously paid $1,875,000 for a twisted, burned tangle of metal. Equal parts unpleasant and unremarkable to behold, a scrapyard would pay the new owner approximately $650 for the aluminum mess had it not been fire-fatigued. According to marque experts, the singed chassis tag and recorded provenance indicate it was, at one point, a car—a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider, to be exact. And, with a heavy checkbook and a skilled workshop, it will be a car once again, ready for a packed schedule of world-class events and prestigious rallies.”

“We think of cross-sectional stunts, the more unorthodox the synergy the better, as a defining mark of our collab era. But more than four decades ago — long before Fendace or Arc'teryx X Jil Sander — fashion powerhouse Fiorucci conceived of an acutely precocious exercise in confluence, and, quite literally, driving the hype, it came in the form of a four-door sedan. To make their bonkers art car, the brand, then renowned for their baby angel tees and ahead-of-the-times stretch jeans, joined forces with Alfa Romeo automobiles, Pirelli tires, and radical Italian architects Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi (who’d soon after start the Memphis movement, infamous for PoMo furniture befitting Pee-wee’s Playhouse).”