>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>To me the funniest thing about the story, if you want to call it funny, was that Novak -- age 77 -- was driving a black Corvette convertible.
>>>
>>>Midlife crisis car for somebody with really good genes <s>
>>
>>Heck, I'm midlife aged and already know I'm too old for a Corvette ;-) I had two of them when I started making serious money in my late 20s and think that was the ideal age to be a Corvette driver. I see fat middle-aged guys driving them all the time and it's a joke. And 77 is a little past middle age.
>
>I decided to act out early so I wouldn't make a fool of myself later. Not sure if I was successful at the latter but I certainly worked hard at the former. My auto-erotica was a 1959 Jaguar X150. ( there was an MGA - my first car - and a Jag Mark VII as well, but the XK150 was The Fantasy.) In reality, of course, it handled like a Zamboni, spent more time in the shop than on the road and saved me from investing in real estate in San Franscisco in the 70s. But women liked it, and I liked women so I guess it did what I asked it to do.

When I got my first sports car, a fire red Trans Am, a coworker told me it was going to get me more a** than a toilet seat.