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OH, BOY! WHAT'S UP, GUYS! CYRUSWONG HERE!

My summer courses have finally ended, which means that I'm now free... for about a week before I have to go back to college. Anyway, I was actually in Los Angeles over the past weekend and, being a car guy in L.A, of course I had to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum. What i was expecting to be there were some insane cars (as usual from said museum); what I was NOT expecting to be there was a car that I'd been wanting to see again for the better part of 17 years. This... is the 1954 Alfa Romeo BAT 7.

Lemme tell you a story first. 2007. I was five years old. My dad offered to take me to the Blackhawk Museum in Blackhawk near where we live. Once we get there, I go in and see all sorts of amazing cars: classic Jags, Chevys, Mercs, Rolls-Royces, you name them. However, there was one car that immediately caught my attention that was at the back of the museum. It was a light blue-colored car with aerodynamic covers over the wheels, an aggressively styled pointed front end, a tight and sculptured cockpit greenhouse that wouldn't look off from an old army airplane, and its most recognizable feature: the massive and curved wings at the back. The design of it took me in awe; I knew it was an old car, the wire wheels being a dead giveaway, but to think that such a design was even possible back then, I just had no words for it really.

In my later visits to said museum, I noticed that that car was no longer being displayed inside the building. It was only until 2020, 15 years later, that I found out that it, along with its two other siblings, had been sold at auction via RM Sotheby's (yes, all three of them), which led me to believe that the light blue concept I saw as a kid at the Blackhawk Museum was sold off previously. 3 years after that, there I was at the Petersen, looking at that same car I was stunned by when I first laid my eyes on it 16 years ago.

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OH, BOY! WHAT'S UP, GUYS! CYRUSWONG HERE!

My summer courses have finally ended, which means that I'm now free... for about a week before I have to go back to college. Anyway, I was actually in Los Angeles over the past weekend and, being a car guy in L.A, of course I had to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum. What i was expecting to be there were some insane cars (as usual from said museum); what I was NOT expecting to be there was a car that I'd been wanting to see again for the better part of 17 years. This... is the 1954 Alfa Romeo BAT 7.

Lemme tell you a story first. 2007. I was five years old. My dad offered to take me to the Blackhawk Museum in Blackhawk near where we live. Once we get there, I go in and see all sorts of amazing cars: classic Jags, Chevys, Mercs, Rolls-Royces, you name them. However, there was one car that immediately caught my attention that was at the back of the museum. It was a light blue-colored car with aerodynamic covers over the wheels, an aggressively styled pointed front end, a tight and sculptured cockpit greenhouse that wouldn't look off from an old army airplane, and its most recognizable feature: the massive and curved wings at the back. The design of it took me in awe; I knew it was an old car, the wire wheels being a dead giveaway, but to think that such a design was even possible back then, I just had no words for it really.

In my later visits to said museum, I noticed that that car was no longer being displayed inside the building. It was only until 2020, 15 years later, that I found out that it, along with its two other siblings, had been sold at auction via RM Sotheby's (yes, all three of them), which led me to believe that the light blue concept I saw as a kid at the Blackhawk Museum was sold off previously. 3 years after that, there I was at the Petersen, looking at that same car I was stunned by when I first laid my eyes on it 16 years ago.