Brian Hamilton
I'm on the verge of touching myself inappropriatel
Well, I'm here in Midland, Texas on a business trip with a friend of mine and I persuade him to go by the Petrolium Museum and Chaparral Exhibit. We pull in and low & behold there's a big car show. YAY!! He's somewhat disinterrested because the UT game is on and he's missing it. He tells me he's going to hit the can and meet up with me in a few. FINE, I'll go be a car nerd.
I walk around and see some NICE Grand Nationals, T-Types, a GNX, old Road Runner with the big wing, some nice custom rods, I see a Factory Five GTM and I notice the beautifully sculpted lines of a Lamborghini. I start heading that way as if drawn by some sort of magnetic force. Walking faster and faster and then I see it...
There's a friggin Veyron sitting next to this Murcielago!!! They're both owned by the same guy, Carl Beal, who's an oil tycoon. I knew he had these cars from friends of mine who live in the area and are car nerds like me. He used to drive an Enzo daily, when weather permitted, and park it right out front of his office building in Midland.
So I'm crawling all over this car with my eyes, not daring to touch it because any self respecting car guy wouldn't DARE touch someone elses car! I snap out of my daze and decide that Patrick MUST see this car. So I run over to where the port-o-potty was and he's coming out. I yell to him, "DUDE!!! COME HERE!!" as I'm still running in his direction.
"What's up man?"
"There's a friggin Bugatti Veyron over there with a Lamborghini Murcielago!"
"Ok, ok, calm down man, it's not going anywhere. Haha"
We double time it over there and there she was. I grabbed the camera from him and snapped a bunch of pictures (which will be up tomorrow, this computer doesn't like the memory card from that camera). We walked around and saw some Factory Five Cobras, new Ford GT's, Shelby GT500 Mustangs, blah blah blah. Normally I'd be all over these, BUT, there's a friggin VEYRON over there!!! Kinda puts a damper on all the other cool cars when there's $1.5M worth of machinery sitting 100' away from your 1969 Shelby GT500 with 30,000 miles. Yeah, it's nice, but there's a friggin VEYRON over there!! Haha.
Anyway, had to share this with you guys, and I swear, pictures will be up soon. My fellow car guys, I love ya'll some times...
Laters,
Brian
PS
We went inside and they had the 2J on exhibit this time. I got pics of that too. Hahaha
I walk around and see some NICE Grand Nationals, T-Types, a GNX, old Road Runner with the big wing, some nice custom rods, I see a Factory Five GTM and I notice the beautifully sculpted lines of a Lamborghini. I start heading that way as if drawn by some sort of magnetic force. Walking faster and faster and then I see it...
There's a friggin Veyron sitting next to this Murcielago!!! They're both owned by the same guy, Carl Beal, who's an oil tycoon. I knew he had these cars from friends of mine who live in the area and are car nerds like me. He used to drive an Enzo daily, when weather permitted, and park it right out front of his office building in Midland.
So I'm crawling all over this car with my eyes, not daring to touch it because any self respecting car guy wouldn't DARE touch someone elses car! I snap out of my daze and decide that Patrick MUST see this car. So I run over to where the port-o-potty was and he's coming out. I yell to him, "DUDE!!! COME HERE!!" as I'm still running in his direction.
"What's up man?"
"There's a friggin Bugatti Veyron over there with a Lamborghini Murcielago!"
"Ok, ok, calm down man, it's not going anywhere. Haha"
We double time it over there and there she was. I grabbed the camera from him and snapped a bunch of pictures (which will be up tomorrow, this computer doesn't like the memory card from that camera). We walked around and saw some Factory Five Cobras, new Ford GT's, Shelby GT500 Mustangs, blah blah blah. Normally I'd be all over these, BUT, there's a friggin VEYRON over there!!! Kinda puts a damper on all the other cool cars when there's $1.5M worth of machinery sitting 100' away from your 1969 Shelby GT500 with 30,000 miles. Yeah, it's nice, but there's a friggin VEYRON over there!! Haha.
Anyway, had to share this with you guys, and I swear, pictures will be up soon. My fellow car guys, I love ya'll some times...
Laters,
Brian
PS
We went inside and they had the 2J on exhibit this time. I got pics of that too. Hahaha