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Originally Posted By AQM
Originally Posted By pandy
When J Pierpont Morgan was asked at the New York Yacht Club how much his new boat had cost, he famously replied "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it".


Well, things have changed since then:



http://www.superyachttimes.com/editorial/21/article/id/1515

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%28yacht%29

can be yours for € 115,000,000. stars


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Yup. Imagine what it cost to build before the recession!


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Well, for Tom Perkins, the american venture capitalist who built it I'm sure it was just a drop in the ocean (sorry!). There's some very clever technology with the rig of Maltese Falcon, but I find her a pretty ugly boat - in particular the coms mast up front. Couldn't that lot have gone somewhere up the mast ? The legendary naval architect Nat Herreshoff said that half of the value of a boat is to look beautiful at a dock or on a mooring - what's called the row-away factor (when you row away, you can't resist sneaking a peek). I totally agree with him and would always be prepared to trade some space or practicality for elegant lines. I'm sure that this is something that Morgan enthusiasts can relate to.


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Is the rear fog light now standard equipment, or is that a bespoke extra? It seems like every dash has a toggle switch available for it, and I see it in almost every recent picture that is posted (where you can see the back), but I don't notice it on any of the older/journalist cars confused


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I notice some difference between a lot of new members and myselve
I buy, hop in to and drive my Morgans
I found out while driving how everything works
That is most of the fun for me
Don't even now if I have manual
It took 4 crossings before I realised I had a blinker and didn't have to wave
Aeroman: any 'need to know' before I mess up things???


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Most of us don't have one yet, so we have to live vicariously through others, asking dumb questions and contemplating the outfitting of our own when that time comes.

Hell, I've even considered early on what it would be like to have a horn on the dash, and if I can upgrade it to a Stebel Nautilus horn to make an impression around blind corners on mountain roads where honking is the "in-thing" to do.

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As I have said before, I am borderline obsessed with the M3W and I just come up with random questions, and you guys are an ocean of knowledge in which I cast my inquires! I thought of this while shoveling my walk, and whilst my hands we thawing I re-surfed the recent photos and once I could type I pondered away.


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Originally Posted By AQM
Hell, I've even considered early on what it would be like to have a horn on the dash, and if I can upgrade it to a Stebel Nautilus horn to make an impression around blind corners on mountain roads where honking is the "in-thing" to do.

Honking on blind corners on mountain roads is not, unfortunately, the "in-thing" but a courtesy that is being forgotten in these days of hermitically sealed cars. On the mountain roads around here I always honk and I wind the window down, a little even in winter, so that I can hear. It annoys the h!"% out of me when others don't do it.


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It was tongue-in-cheek. There's certainly a good reason for it, however it is frowned upon around here.

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the horn is what sucks most on the M3W
it is a legal toot
it should be a whreutwhreut

that'll be one of my first mods


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