Ferrari Mailing List: Amazing - What goes around, comes around...

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Clyde rhetorically asks:  “On the other hand, look at all the multimillion dollar paintings hanging on walls. Why do people pay that for something they only look at?”

 

Mine is bigger than yours?  Could be – in a social atmosphere rivaling the SR-71 . . . but I’ll never know about the ‘pay for that.’ 

 

I do enjoy looking at fine art.  Constable’s sky and clouds, or the illustrator Norman Rockwell’s slice of life illustrations.  Especially his 1931 charcoal and pencil study of “Milkmaid” for the July 25^th Saturday Evening Post cover.  Or his WW II cover – Rosie the Riveter.  His model for Rosie?  Why not use the Sistine Chapple ceiling?  Yep, Isiah.  Of course he doesn’t have his foot on a beat up copy of “Mein Kampf.”

 

Or some of the Coke trays portraying a red head in the 1930’s.  Josephine Moore.  After my mom passed and Josephine’s husband passed, my dad and her were old time boy friend girl friend.  A marvelous woman.  Modeled for Coca Cola and Camay Soap. Lived until she was 98.  Lived in Placerville, CA, on top of the Gold Bug gold mine.  She’d open her acreage to the Coca Cola club once a year for some sort of annual Coca Cola Club get together.

 

Just looking, for that matter, and running my hand over it, a two time F1 winner – the TAG engine.  I’ve had it for a number of years but still marvel at the engineering . . . for that time period.  And there’s our rusting 91 cid “Offy” midget block out in the garden that was the victim of, well, maybe, too much nitro for the main event. (where can I get an Offy head gasket?  Ah ah ah)

 

And then, in the garage, the little ol’ red, very dated, 1978 Ferrari GTS.  Yeah, I enjoy looking at that.

And for a Ferrari topper: Museo della Ferrari a Ventura, California, Sotto la direzione del curatore Rob Garven.

That’s it.  Oh – and when I am looking at some fine original oil art – I imagine this . . . while standing within 2 feet of the picture, THAT is where Van Gogh stood, or Miro, or Dali, or Pollack or when we’ve had special exhibits at the Ronald Reagan Library . . . Michelangelo’s carving studies or Leonardo da Vinci’s note book pages, written from right to left . . . and backwards.

Yeah – Ferrari for looks, or an SR-71, or an F5A . . . I like the look and the feel.  

Yep.

Doug