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title: "Five Cars That Belong in Michelangelo’s Garage"
description: "One will charm the Italians; another will piss ‘em the heck off."
date: "2016-02-10"
modified: "2019-06-28"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2121/five-cars-that-belong-in-michelangelos-garage"
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---

# Five Cars That Belong in Michelangelo’s Garage

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Have you ever wanted to live in an artist’s pad? Koons’ penthouse? Warhol’s apartment? The Pollock-Krasner house? You’re right, you’re right—too local, too American, too modest, too new. How about [Michelangelo's Tuscan villa](<https://www.handsomepropertiesinternational.com/listing/cms/villa-michelangelo/>), available for purchase for $8.5 million? At just under five-hundred years old, the villa is a testament to hardy Florentine construction and, miraculously, remained in the Buonnarroti family until the late nineteenth century. (The walls are sure to be thick with the family’s illustrious [dandruff](<https://www.forhims.com/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-dandruff>).) With eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms, each likely harboring a bidet, the Villa Michelangelo has more than enough room for guests and supplicants, plus a grand living room, in which a coffee-table book of the Sistine Chapel is *de rigeur*.

Most importantly, the property contains a carriage house. Here are the only autos that deserve to live inside its stony walls.

## Rolls-Royce Wraith

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The Rolls-Royce Wraith is one of the only cars in the world (the others are Rolls-Royces, as well) available with a “Starlight Headliner.” That’s a rich, leather surface perforated with thousands of fiber optic strands, creating the effect of a starry night. Michelangelo definitely appreciated an ornate ceiling.

## Alfa Romeo 8C

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The Alfa 8C is widely accepted to be more sculpture than vehicle. Sure, it’s fast and has a V8 and corners well enough, but the car’s dominant effect is visual. It’s *The David* of sports cars: Perfect proportions, a beguiling face.

## Morgan Plus 4

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Morgan is the only automaker in the game that still hand produces its frames from ash wood. That’s old-world craftsmanship at its finest. Ever seen a Renaissance Era chiffarobe? Like that.

## Cadillac Escalade

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There’s nothing like pissing off Europeans. Slap a fat, black Cadillac Escalade inside Michelangelo’s family home? *Fait accompli, mes amis*.

## Volkswagen Golf Harlequin

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It’s a hatchback! It’s art! Well, Kindergarten art, at least. The Golf Harlequin is what happens when Volkswagen throws all of its body panels into a bin, then blindfold factory workers ask them to affix them to frames. If not art, it’s at least a patchwork car to match Tuscany’s patchwork of fields.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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