005 Mark wrote:Hi Nik,
I would intend to agree with you, however in all fairness to the owner, i have never met him and at this stage feel that i shouldn't judge someone i don't know. (You are more than likely right thou!)
It is easy for us cos we are all fans of these cars and we are more than happy to share all the details of our vehicles even thou some of us have them hidden away from the badies out there so they can't be traced.
I once apon a time spent many years with a mate from boarding school who's parents were very, very well off. I'm talking private helicopter, buying companies for $400, million, the latest Porsche and Merc's and a muti million dollar NZ award winning designer home in Parnell etc...
I got to exprience and learn a lot about how these kind of people live in the same world we do. It is a lot differant to what you may think. They see things and live a life like your in a totally differant world completely.
Maybe this is what the owner is like? Some of them don't even care if people like us are here.
I guess we should just wait until i can find out more about him and then we can have a say. I try to accept people for who they are, not what they have or how they live etc...
Cheers, Mark...
That tends to be the attitude of "new money".
As a kid back in Scotland, we had many family friends who were VERY wealthy and/or members of the peerage and they were just like anyone else - some would drink in the local public bar with the workers and fishermen, whereas others were moving in different circles.
In '72, or thereabouts, we had a chap called Duncan, from Hamilton, staying (dad owned the local hotel and as my mother is a Kiwi, any kiwi travellers got sent round to our place as a matter of course) and he was taken out on the booze with the folks. A bunch of people came home with them after stopping at the local chippie. He was most surprised to learn he was washing up with Lord Thurso and Lady Painter and two of the others with the party were the Right Honourables' Victor and Caroline Grosvener - Victor being, IIRC, the grand nephew of the Duke of Bedford who was, at that time, the richest man in Britain. I should, perhaps, mention that Victor and Caroline were also upper class hippies and great fun.
Thing about 'old money' is they usually don't give a damn about appearances and putting on airs - they're at least as down to earth as anyone else.
Back to the chap in question - as I said earlier, his car - his call!
Then again, it could just be the old NZ snobbishness - my mother stayed down to earth but, when she returned to Gisborne - her old stomping ground, may of her old friends had turned into real snobs!