Different perspectives…

You have to stand in awe for anything that is the absolute best in the world.   I’ve been a gearhead all my life, and although I never wanted one and I know I’ll never be able to afford one, I’ve always been intrigued by ultra high-end cars.   When I was a kid, I knew the names…Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ferrari, Maserati, and on it goes.

One of my very first jobs was working at a farm and garden center back in New Jersey, and the guy in the shop behind us had a business restoring Rolls Royces.   During my breaks, I’d go over there and look at the cars he was bringing back to concours condition.   The owner was a cool dude who saw my fascination and allowed me to take it all in.   I remember him telling me that a new Rolls sold for about $30,000 back then (that’s about the price of a nicely-equipped Toyota today).

After meeting my daughter and her husband for lunch in Pasadena yesterday, the ladies wanted to go clothes shopping, so my son-in-law and I did the same (but for far more interesting stuff).   We first went to a camera shop and we looked at the new Nikons.   Nice, but I just don’t feel like plunking down another $3K to $4K for a new camera.   My old D200 Nikon has been around the block a few times and she’s kind of beat up, but she’s still working just fine for what I do.   The new Nikons are nice, but a new one was not in the cards today.   Shoot, I could buy one of these for what one of those cameras cost…

From there, we rolled on over to Rusnak, a Pasadena new car dealer of super exotic stuff.   How exotic?   Well, let’s just say this $477,000 beauty, a new Rolls Royce Silver Spur, won’t be in my garage any time soon…

Here’s a similar Rolls, but with a fastback roof line…

A cool half-million bucks for each of those cars, folks…or stated differently, it would be this many CSC Cyclones…

Interesting stuff.

I’m off to send some lead downrange this morning with my shooting buddies, folks.

Ride safe and send us your photos!