Eye candy for my daddy

Lovely curvy vintage motors from Ralph Lauren's personal collection at Speed, Style and Beauty exhibit at the MFA. Not a car buff myself, I didn't take notes on model numbers or anything, so just enjoy their shapes.

the Bentley Bowler. Love the big 8 at the front. Very Chinese.


A 1930's Alfa Romeo


Black Bugatti's from the 20's / 30's


a 1938 Black Bugatti. Buggie beauty indeed!
Will learn to drive when have enough $ for one of these.


A 1950's Mercedes Gullwing.
This was H's fave out of the whole show, for it had the perfect Gatsby-esque touches, caramel leather interior and luggage, silver-gold champagne exterior and all.


My fave. Jaguar in racing green. Loved the Art Deco streamlined insect look. The fin made it very Rocketman or Ultraman (aka Salty Egg Superman to us HKers.)


Another Jaguar beauty.


the 50's badass car - 1951 Porsche Spyder. James Dean died in one of these when he crashed his car. H noted that the interior finishes was left raw - no carpets, wood panelling etc. I liked the yacht-like steering wheel.


Another red Ferrari. H and I couldn't figure out what the coke-can looking things at the front were. Are they part of the engine?


Another red Ferrari. The slanted windows are cool.


A 1984 McLaren. The car has an unusal 3 seat arrangement - the driver seat with the steering wheel in the middle, slightly in front of the two passenger seats. Very 80's in that all out look-at-me way.