rang up Rolls Royce PR people and they said, call you back in half an hour and half an hour later they did, true to their word. And so we have a silver spirit in ocean blue and it's on the coming off the production line tomorrow. It's a cancelled order. And if you'd like to come up to crew, we'll show you around the factory and you can take the car for three months. So I went up to the factory and talking about the loving assembly of these cars. There was a man there that showed me a crankshaft, beautifully forged piece of steel, perfectly, perfectly well polished by hand with chamois leathers. And he had made it such that no one side of it was even a fraction of a gram heavier than any other. So if you put it between two bearings and started it spinning, it theoretically would never stop. Well, obviously friction would do for it in the end, but no one side was heavier than another. So it wouldn't have a tendency to slow down. And so I've always remembered that. And anyway, I picked up (33/57)
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