I have a posh acquaintance who just received an allocation for a Kimera K39 which is what the Luce should have looked like. https://www.kimera-automobili.com
prosopagnosia!! Interesting word and prose. Great article I can relate to growing up and in college. I came from a poor family so Dad brought me a Valiant which I didn’t know was a Plymouth until I got in the car. It took me a while to figure out how to work it because it was equipped with an automatic transmission that featured a distinctive push button gear selector which was mounted in a vertical column on the far left edge of the dashboard. I was expecting a standard floor shifter or a three on the tree column shifter. Dad got me the luxury model. Powered by a straight six motor. The engine starts and ran fantastic and I was definitely a hit in college in Texas where you had to have a car to get around because the nearest liquor store was 45 to 50 miles away.
Your article just restored several excellent and beautiful memories that I had back then. “ sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll”. Then it was “ Burn This “ and “Is there Love after Sex”? I guess i was a hippie and part of that cultural revolution not realizing how we would change the world forever.
I’ve had an electric car for a while and I can’t imagine ever going back to gas car. Just not dealing with oil changes and gas stations would be enough, but there are so many smaller and larger perks. It’s an older model that makes no noises whatsoever which is creepy but oddly satisfying. At higher speed the air resistance does make a whooshing sound around it.
Luce is indeed beautiful. I hope maybe receiving some unspecified award money would convince you to take the leap!
This takes me back about 53 years! The Michel Vaillant comic books were always somewhere lying on a pile in our home of 4 children, 2 boys, 2 girls (together with TinTin, Asterix and Obelix, Suske and Wiske, Rik Ringers and Alix). They were an essential part of our upbringing. I remember the Vroooaamm in bold capitals so clearly. I never added up they all are almost all made in Belgium. We read them in Dutch, maybe easily available because Flemish. Thank you Luca!
Yes! that's how we were educatied in the history of the Roman Empire (although Alix - Alex as we knew him, was a Gaul). No dude to us, first-class hero!
Cars were already dying long before becoming electric. In recent years they became almost indistinguishable, they’re all similar. Thank God the ligne claire vintage comics are still around. If you want to check the contemporary ones, get Atom Agency by Yann and the great Olivier Schwartz
What a nice post. I love old comics because they feel romantic and nostalgic nowadays. I prefer the aesthetic of old roadsters and sports cars to electric vehicles anytime.
This was an epic preamble to rage-baiting the reader by calling the Ferrari Luce “beautiful”. Will have to look up the Vailliante.
Really rather good 😇
I have a posh acquaintance who just received an allocation for a Kimera K39 which is what the Luce should have looked like. https://www.kimera-automobili.com
or like this: https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/ferrari-pininfarina-512-s-speciale
prosopagnosia!! Interesting word and prose. Great article I can relate to growing up and in college. I came from a poor family so Dad brought me a Valiant which I didn’t know was a Plymouth until I got in the car. It took me a while to figure out how to work it because it was equipped with an automatic transmission that featured a distinctive push button gear selector which was mounted in a vertical column on the far left edge of the dashboard. I was expecting a standard floor shifter or a three on the tree column shifter. Dad got me the luxury model. Powered by a straight six motor. The engine starts and ran fantastic and I was definitely a hit in college in Texas where you had to have a car to get around because the nearest liquor store was 45 to 50 miles away.
Your article just restored several excellent and beautiful memories that I had back then. “ sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll”. Then it was “ Burn This “ and “Is there Love after Sex”? I guess i was a hippie and part of that cultural revolution not realizing how we would change the world forever.
I’ve had an electric car for a while and I can’t imagine ever going back to gas car. Just not dealing with oil changes and gas stations would be enough, but there are so many smaller and larger perks. It’s an older model that makes no noises whatsoever which is creepy but oddly satisfying. At higher speed the air resistance does make a whooshing sound around it.
Luce is indeed beautiful. I hope maybe receiving some unspecified award money would convince you to take the leap!
$600 k! It would have to be one hell of a windfall and Tania would surely kill me anyway…
This takes me back about 53 years! The Michel Vaillant comic books were always somewhere lying on a pile in our home of 4 children, 2 boys, 2 girls (together with TinTin, Asterix and Obelix, Suske and Wiske, Rik Ringers and Alix). They were an essential part of our upbringing. I remember the Vroooaamm in bold capitals so clearly. I never added up they all are almost all made in Belgium. We read them in Dutch, maybe easily available because Flemish. Thank you Luca!
Alix! The dude in a mini-dress!
Yes! that's how we were educatied in the history of the Roman Empire (although Alix - Alex as we knew him, was a Gaul). No dude to us, first-class hero!
French is the language of <almost> half of the people in Belgium, Belgium is an interesting country…
Cars were already dying long before becoming electric. In recent years they became almost indistinguishable, they’re all similar. Thank God the ligne claire vintage comics are still around. If you want to check the contemporary ones, get Atom Agency by Yann and the great Olivier Schwartz
What a nice post. I love old comics because they feel romantic and nostalgic nowadays. I prefer the aesthetic of old roadsters and sports cars to electric vehicles anytime.