Wife and I went to Paris this weekend and she kindly booked tickets to the Art of the Automobile exhibit which took a few of Ralph's car collection and exhibited them as artwork. The first thing to see was the front of the Bugatti Atlantic and then up a few marble steps to be confronted by the radiators of a Bentley Blower and an SSK
In a single side room they had on a turntables a Ferrari 250SWB (The GTO was parked elsewhere
), an XKSS, a Gullwing and an XK120 (A D-Type was the other Jag the other Ferrari's included an old Testarossa and an LM)
A fab Porsche 550 Spyder,a couple of lovely Alfa's (Peter would have been drooling) and the only "modern" was itself 15 years old - one of 5 Mclaren F1 LM (Le Mans). Amazing to see these things so close up - but no touching, no photos
There was a video presenttation of Ralph and his collection that I didn't bother with, but also 2 little areas with slideshows of each of the cars in turn using fantastic photos in both colour and monochome. Each slideshow had it's own soundtrack - from the engine of that car starting and accelerating away (from in the car) through passes of static micropohoes etc to killing the ignition. These cars get driven (and revved)....
The golf shirt of the event likely paid for it... Tickets were €7 each, which was a steal. Shirts €120 - They had Ralph's name in them, so that's "OK"
http://thefabday.blogspot.com/2011/05/paris-art-of-automobile-ralph-lauren.html
