Cars, Speed, Ego: Inside France's Tour Auto Optic 2000 - Condé Nast Traveler
One morning in early June, he called me in New York with a command: “We’re taking a road trip in my car. ” If you’ve seen The Graduate, you know Sam’s car: a 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 Duetto, that glistening two-door convertible with a rear-view mirror the size of a butter knife which Dustin Hoffman races through the streets of L. A. in a desperate... Two hours after landing, Sam and I were speeding toward the Brenner Pass, climbing toward Italy. The Alfa Romeo, I learned on that trip, was like the most-perfect guide—a chrome-accented native who not only was comfortable on the back roads but seemed to have connections wherever we went. Every time we parked in front of a cafe or bar, the reaction was the same: Smiling locals wandered over to gaze at the car and take a photo of their kids beside it. It was at a cafe in Noli, a small town on the Riviera, that an older man told me... In the 1960s and ’70s, the Alfa Ro- meo and other sexy Italian roadsters and racers of that era—the Ferraris and Fiats—were seemingly everywhere. ” He went on to explain that one day, models like the Duetto were gone, no longer in production. “Seeing this car, it’s like seeing the most gorgeous girl from your youth. Source: www.cntraveler.com
