this has made me VERY VERY gloomy..

So go buy a bottle of Polo at Macy's for $85 and just know that the insane profit
margin on that foo foo juice will help put another fun car in Ralph's garage...



Jedi

 

Gloomy?

I'm glad the guy thinks right and doesn't just have a bunch of framed art.

Wonder what he plans for the collection after his demise? I would hope it would go into a museum with a trust fund for perpetuity. I'd buy a plane ticket to go see that.

 

+100

 

from what I understand at least one of his kids is a car guy, so I imagine they'll be passed on to him.

 

Phil- he is a member of NCMS and came to one of our shows. He is often in town & a nice guy. He had most of this collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts a few years ago. It was spectacular...really something special to see. They had a book on his cars(Style , Speed & Beauty)...you might check them to see if its still in print. I have a copy if you want to borrow it.

 

Very well displayed and a super collection of cars...

 

is that a early dino race car on the slide show?

 

This must be about the 6th thread, since VF hit the newstands??????

His cars, his money....

 

He has good taste in cars.

 

I attended a Ferrari Club dinner a few years ago in which the first person to run a Ferrari dealership in the US, a former race driver who knew Enzo, stated that he got frustrated while taking Mr. Lauren for test drives in Ferraris. It seems that our friend Ralph had a tendency to ride the clutch!

 

There was a Consumer Reports article some years back where they took the labels off of clothing and gave them to professionals to evaluate for quality. I don't recall if it was golf shirts or khaki pants, but the Polo brand were made of the lowest quality material of all of them, far lower than those found at K-Mart, etc.
When asked about it, Ralph responded "That's the look our customers like."

I don't buy Polo brand stuff.

 

I have had Polo brand shirts that are over 5 years old hanging in my closet before they start showing signs of wear and fade so I only buy Polo brand shirts

 

Interesting-- Maybe CR got a bad batch?

Maybe I should give them a try.

 

Ralph Lauren's "Polo" shirts used to be made with a very soft, high-quality (I thought), fine-weave cotton, which were very comfortable. The problem for me was that the material was so compliant that buttons wouldn't stay buttoned (the button holes would open). They have since discontinued those.

For the last few years, Polo has carried a "custom-fit" T-shirt line, which has shorter sleeves than normal and a cut similar to what my racing and sports-car heroes wore in the 1960s (they probably wore Lacoste, styled differently then). I buy Polo's Custom-Fit line, preferring the brand to Lacoste, because of the cut. With mesh-back gloves, the Polo Custom-Fits feel very period.

Now, here we are, discussing clothes. I hope no one else reads this.

By the way, I don't shop and so zero in on a brand I like and just buy that over and over again, often in the same color. I don't buy often also, and my shirts do last years and years, decades. CR could be right in that other brands have better materials or are better made, but I woudn't know.

Now back to Dinos.