Photo and text: Christer Lundem
August 15: Elegantly wasted
Outside “The Quail” there are parked twelve new Lamborghini Huracáns. I do not even think they have so many cars standing ready at the Lamborghini factory. We stumble across them on your way to our breakfast. Strangely almost missing them all, circling around an old Alfa Giulietta Spider and a Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing. That's what happens when you are exposed to massive visual impact day after day. With creative ways (I am not getting into how…) we manage to get us invited into the closed event. There are rumors that people have tried for several years, so I've probably struck pure luck or something else... Here we find the playground of the ritch, helicopters taking off constantly. It is even rumored that Jerry Seinfield is here, all this while high heels are desperately trying to penetrate immaculate grass and people sway left right and center of us. We fight our way between, hats, settees, dresses, khaki pants, cufflinks, gold watches and sunglasses. We are clearly not dressed for the occasion. However, with the high temperature taken into consideration, we think our shorts and shirts are the choise of the clever.
There is just so much to look at and everything that one can dream of car wise is there. TV-presenter Jay Leno hangs with the Porsche reimaginers Singer, and is caught in an infinite "selfies-run" with manic fans. All celebrities are under attack here. 74 year old racer Derek Bell gets attacked with a microphone precisely inserted into his face. A blissful circus. We enjoy the mayhem at a comfortable distance. Drinking bubbles under the shadow of an umbrella. It is extreme and incredibly entertaining. The evening ends up at the same Mexican restaurant as the day before, and this time we meet the best friend of Tesla's Elon Musk. Definitely an interesting guy. No names are told. That is just the way here, and we have began to think that it is quite normal.
Tomorrow: Enough is enough
There is just so much to look at and everything that one can dream of car wise is there. TV-presenter Jay Leno hangs with the Porsche reimaginers Singer, and is caught in an infinite "selfies-run" with manic fans. All celebrities are under attack here. 74 year old racer Derek Bell gets attacked with a microphone precisely inserted into his face. A blissful circus. We enjoy the mayhem at a comfortable distance. Drinking bubbles under the shadow of an umbrella. It is extreme and incredibly entertaining. The evening ends up at the same Mexican restaurant as the day before, and this time we meet the best friend of Tesla's Elon Musk. Definitely an interesting guy. No names are told. That is just the way here, and we have began to think that it is quite normal.
Tomorrow: Enough is enough
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