Do any blazers own a Bugatti veyron?

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My wife just saw one driving down I84, which has got to be a very rare sight to see in the Portland area. I've only seen one in person and that was on Rodeo Dr.
 
Did it look like this?

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Negative, unless they bought it in the past 2 days.
 
I heard of one being spotted along the Oregon coast, but I question whether most people can tell the Veyron apart from an Audi R8 at a quick glance.
 
HCP said:
Negative, unless they bought it in the past 2 days.
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and HCP knows, he's usually polishing the rims of their cars.
 
Come on, dude. You really think any Blazer would let HCP get that close to their car, and risk that he could hotwire and steal it? You've never been to LA (or anywhere in SoCal), apparently. They be jackin' fools!
 
Reminds me of a ZBO story...... on our way out of town on a trip and ZBO had just bought this old school pimped out early 70's Caprice Classic. They delivered it to the FlightCraft parking lot where our plane is. Straight ThugLife in the parking lot, vibrating trunk from the gangsta' beats! I park and as I walk by he yells, "YO, come check out my new whip!" I admit it was dope, but when Maurice Cheeks walked by, he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh! ZBO handed the guy a stack of cash and hopped on the plane. Oh.... those were the days.
 
False alarm on the Bugatti sighting, apparently a maseratti fooled her. Oh well
 
Bugatti, Maseratti, whatever. I always think dude has to be a pro athlete whenever I spot anything nicer than a Jag/BMW level ride. Cuz I stereotype like that.
 
The only cars of that caliber would belong to either Ron Tonkin or Paige Stevens in this area. Those two men have absurd cars. Athletes are limited in the sweet cars they can buy because most of them aren't built with large people in mind. That would kind of suck to have all that money and no way of fitting comfortably in some of the cars I would buy.
 
Who is Stevens? Monte Shelton lives right around the corner from us. Always has new rides.
 
Maserati's arent that rare. I see some around town at least once a month or so.
I know a guy who has a Maserati. Lives in the east Vancouver/Camas area.
I think Brandon Roy has a blue Maserati.
 
The guy who parks his f50 or 599 outside of the LO startbucks next to the guy with the murcielago would probably love to debate with you who in the area can afford what car. I am pretty sure they laugh when the guy in the r8 tries to park in their row. They both have several, I have seen them color coordinate before. Depending on the year a Veyron can be as cheap as 1.5 which isnt a lot to some of these folks.

Money aside, my favorite car was Pendergraphs, though it pales in comparison to the stickers on some of those cars at the Tonklin GT lot.
 
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Yeah, I was so excited when I got my new focus, the monthly payment on a Veyron is more than the total payment on my car, in fact you could buy almost 3 for that price lol.
 
HCP said:
Who is Stevens? Monte Shelton lives right around the corner from us. Always has new rides.
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Found this on a car forum.

Paige lives fairly close to me in a town south of Portland, Oregon. I see him tooling around town a few times a year in his Renault R5 Turbo or his F50, or one of his Caterhams. I always honk & wave, but he never looks around. He tells me he doesn't like the assumptions people make about him when he's driving one of his exotics. He's really a very quiet and unassuming man, understands, and is thankful for, his good life and luck. He owns Stevens Marine boat retail stores and Alumaweld alloy river boat manufacturing company in southern Oregon. He started with not much many years ago when he bought a struggling boat retailer, and built up his businesses into what they are today.

I met him several years ago when I had a hot Caterham Super 7 & he was interested in buying one. I let him drive it for a session during a track day, the next track day he took me out in his F50 for several very hot laps. The man can flat drive, he's no poser. He's obviously spent time getting excellent driving instruction and puts it to good use whenever he can. He drives all his exotics like he's going to sell the damn things the day after tommorrow, no holding back for him. I'll go to my grave with the sights and sounds of that F50 burned into my memory. He shifted it at about 9,000 rpm, just about when the rev limiter came in. That V12 with a Tubi exhaust screaming a few inches behind my ears was an unforgettable experience. The acceleration pulled my cheeks back inside my helmet, but the braking power was truly death defying. Braking from about 140 to 30 in what seemed like 20 yards was enough to just completely disorient me, I've never imagined anything like it B4 or since.

The Cobra is a kit, a very good one professionally done. Paige buys and sells a few cars a year, always gets the latest Ferrari. He and Ron Tonkin, another Portland collector and big Ferrari and others auto dealer around here, always get whatever is the latest & best Ferrari has to offer. Tonkin just puts the order in to Ferrari USA for 2 of the latest as soon as he hears about anything new. Paige told me he doesn't like Lamborghinis, he's had a few, always sold them ASAP. Says they are too poser, not as much of a driver's car as a Ferrari.

-Bruce
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LOTBfan said:
The guy who parks his f50 or 599 outside of the LO startbucks next to the guy with the murcielago would probably love to debate with you who in the area can afford what car. I am pretty sure they laugh when the guy in the r8 tries to park in their row. They both have several, I have seen them color coordinate before. Depending on the year a Veyron can be as cheap as 1.5 which isnt a lot to some of these folks.

Money aside, my favorite car was Pendergraphs, though it pales in comparison to the stickers on some of those cars at the Tonklin GT lot.
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I don't know the Lambo guy but the Starbucks Ferrari guy is Marty. He always has a couple nice Ferrari's in his garage but never anything absurd like Tonkin or Stevens. He used to be pretty outgoing and willing to talk cars but lately he's been somewhat crotchety.
 
He probably didn't get into the new Ferrari Collector's club that you need over 5 to join, giving you the new limited edition models, that sure would make me sour!
 
There are a lot more exotic cars in the PDX area than most people think. My soon to be brother in law used to own a Ferrari 360 Modena then a Lambo Gallardo. I went with him to a few cruises/gatherings/track days at PIR with the car club he was in and I was always surprised at how many exotic cars where there.
 
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