A New-Old Stock Taxonomy

Poseurs? Or maybe “investors.” Probably a little of both, depending upon what they were buying.

 

texas, you forgot the enthusiast and fans.
I for example only have kown in 1974 when I bought mine from a junk yard dismanteled that ferrari is a company building race cars, but the 250 GT/T is for sure no race car ( a 4 seater ) later I got a little knowledge about the ferrari factory. but with only 19 years I have been a proud ferrari owner and happy that I did so at that time. even I payed at the junk yard 6 times more for the parts ( some missing ) then I earned each month

 

Then there are the <1,000 mile Boxster Spyders on BAT. Seems like there’s one per week. Having owned a Boxster RS60 I can’t imagine not driving those things.

 

when I translate the word bohemian it makes no sense. could you please use an other word that I know what you mean? thank you

 

thank you for explaing texas, now I can imagine what you mean

 

Texas: I think the choice of the word "Enthusiast" is better. That is what we all were. Luckily, some of us were able to hang on to the cars. We bought our 275 GTB in 1972 for $6,300. We could have made a better choice, as it was a "rat", but we banned together, shared knowledge, saved money, worked on it, fixed the problems over the years and now we still enjoy it 51 years later.

 

A European would probably be inclined to take the term literally.

 

Yes, Enthusiast works better for me as well. I was trying to figure out how I was going tell the.Admiral he was a Bohemian in 1960.

 

Hey Dale, now wait a minute this is a family site! I much prefer Dyke's choice of terms, or better yet "gear head".

 

Sorry to say , but the Admiral was a bohemian in 1960. He had good personal taste , ahead of his time, did not respect conventions too much and had not too much money either. This is the essence of the book “ la vie de bohème “ and subsequent opera “ la bohème”. Nothing to do with Bohemia, the Czech province Bohème Moravia, nor the kind of pejorative connotation associated with bohemian. And I admire the Admiral for being at the same time very conventional , and not at all for some other aspects of his life. In a way , unless you are a billionaire and you collect cars as a rational choice - and we all know some of them- all of the others who put priorities in a reverse order and Ferrari on top of the pile ,,are bohemians. They refused the established order and conventions. And chose their passion for the cars! And I am a proud bohemian!

 

i must be a bohemian as i put personal preference over rational investment when i bought a daytona vs a lusso, wait, did i just create another category….. estupido

 

Dear Pierre,

I do like your interpretation and am flattered to be included with you as a proud and deserving bohemian!

Warm regards,

Robert

 

My friends and I all wore beret's to high school, just to be different. I was a bohemian and did not realize it! I just thought I was nuts about Ferraris.

 

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