Are you a Porsche fan?
I grew up in Detroit, one mile from the GM Tech Center. GM tried to control their employees, but there were always the die-hard Porsche fans, and GM HATED it!!! One of my friends (now deceased...was awarded his PhD from University of Michigan posthumously) bought a brand F-ing new Porsche 930 and GM made him park it almost a mile away from his office. (It was blue...fat fenders...Gawd!!!)
One day when I was a kid (mid 70's) my dad and I were driving down Martin Road (11 and 1/2 mile) just outside of the GM Tech Center on a rainy Saturday about noon when someone driving a Porsche 917 came roaring up and passed us. That's right, a 917, in Gulf blue with a bundle of pipes sticking out the ass. Good god, we were living in the era of free cheese being thrown out of army trucks. I was just passed by a freaking 917! Who was the person who could afford that in the mid-70s? Back then I was all about the (original Holman and Moody) GT40. And the Chaparral. But I would have liked to pull him over and admire the 917...
Methinks that back in those days the 917 was not appreciated enough to cost anything. But everyone loves cheese.