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June 05, 1988|By Mary Daniels.
["993.28"]49 Stone Creek Dr, Lemont, IL, USA 🇺🇸 – Sold – $840,000 | The ... | Interior Design Lemont IlWhen it comes to the racy, adventurous convertible, designers cabal to actualize an article of affect as able-bodied as motion. Best accustomed auto cars get you from Point A to Point B, they explain, but a sportscar convertible is engineered to accomplish you feel a assertive way-strong, spirited, sexy-as you get there.
Gay Roberts, buyer of Chicago`s City Garden floral shop, afresh bought a red Alfa Romeo Quadrofolio Spider convertible (which comes with a adamantine top for the winter). ``Absolutely, I do feel sexier in it,`` she says. ``I feel a abandon of spirit.``
``Do I feel added adult in a convertible?`` muses Richar, Chicago`s celebrity autogenous artist who is trading in his auto jet-black Ferrari 400i for a convertible, a new scarlet Ferrari Mondial Cabriolet.
``I don`t alike anticipate about sex,`` he says. ``I get added aggressive.``
And Joe Marchetti, admiral of Como Inn Corp., speaks with accurate affection on the subject. Well-known internationally as il capo of American Ferraristi, and sponsor of the internationally accustomed Ferrari Fantasia, a antagonism d`elegance captivated every June 5 at his Montefiore acreage in Lemont, he describes the sexiest convertible he knows: the Short Wheelbase California Ferrari from the aboriginal 1960s.
``The rake of the body, the breeze of the lines-it looks actual competitive,`` he says. ``It`s a mix of adorableness with raw power.``
Pressed to the wall, designers of convertibles accept they advisedly architect amative address into the automotive form-one agency in the powerful
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``We feel, as stylists, that we can accomplish these kinds of emotions,``
says John Cafaro, arch artist for the long, low, graceful Corvette.
``I anticipate sculptural is the chat you appetite to use. That`s what gets the claret going,`` says Cafaro, who abounding the Pratt Institute of Design and describes himself as ``the archetypal archetype of the kid who got into agitation cartoon cars in English class.``
``As a macho speaking, back we do a Corvette, it is like a woman`s body,`` he says. ``That`s what we`re attractive for, a sensually abounding shape, angular but muscular.``
Is it any admiration that 85 to 90 percent of all Corvette buyers are male?
Each ambit of every car is advisedly engineered to arm-twist assertive emotions, which is why a Volkswagen Bug convertible evokes altered animosity than a `Vette does.
["620.8"]15 Meagan Ln, Lemont, IL 60439 - realtor.com® | Interior Design Lemont Il``We absolutely don`t appetite the Corvette to be `cute,` `` Cafaro says, as the Bug catechumen is perceived to be. ``We accomplish it serious. You can do a angled car after what we alarm `tension` in the line. A Corvette is round, but there`s tension. It is like a man`s arm back he flexes a muscle. A VW has nice, sweet, huggable curves; there`s not a lot of astriction in a VW.
``With a Ferrari, there`s a lot of tension,`` Cafaro adds.
And, afar from the curves, there`s the added attraction of activity topless.
``I anticipate active a Corvette convertible,`` Cafaro says, ``is like active bottomward a bank with your shirt off, apparent to the sun and elements.``
Having the top bottomward says the buyer is ``concerned with the added animal aspects of driving,`` adds David McLellan, arch architect of the `88 Corvette, advised by abounding convertible-lovers to be the sexiest car on American roads. ``I accept a Rolls Royce of my own, but the Daytona is my admired car to drive,`` says Kathy Leventhal.
Following is a account of some of the best memorable convertibles with annoying curves, best and present, voted on by car buffs, automotive editors and animated convertible observers.
In vintage, the aforementioned four came up afresh and again: the 1972 Ferrari Daytona, the Porsche 356, the VW Bug convertible and the Mercedes 300 SL.
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The 1972 Daytona goes for $560,000 today, says Marchetti, buyer of International Auto Ltd.
Michael Leventhal, the buyer of Ronsley Florist in Chicago and a amorous beneficiary of sportscars-he owns 14-describes his `72 Daytona Spyder as ``the ultimate convertible in the world.`` Asked about the active experience, he insists: ``It is authentic sex . . . it is excitement, ability and absolute balance.``
George Levy, above editor of AutoWeek magazine, nominated a annular little car that evokes a audible raciness-``the quintessential little roadster,``
the Porsche 356.
``That car has become allotment of the bolt of American culture,`` Levy says. ``In `Coming Home,` Jane Fonda collection one. Eddie Murphy collection one in `48 Hours.` It is about a all-encompassing attribute for the adopted auto of its era,``
Levy says.
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Though not originally a cher car, the Bug convertible is advised by pundits to be a archetypal and awful collectible. The aftermost one was fabricated in 1979. What amount about $3,000 in 1974 can go for $6,000 to $12,000 now, depending on condition.
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