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OGG said:
Given @Tiltsta 's line of work, a "friend of a friend" stands a very good chance of being somehow connected to the Pharmaceutical industry. Being in that particular region, that chance is magnitudes higher.

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The friend is a liver transplant surgeon, and his friend is a retired professional football player. The surgeon and I met 20 years ago when he was a visiting professor and I was a post doc at the same university in NY. The two of them went to school together as kids in Switzerland. You can tell which of the three of us chose the best path in life, as my only car is a MB C400 wagon, and the surgeon drives a VW Sharan, which sounds exotic but is actually a minivan. I think the only pharma link is that pharma brought me to this country.
 
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Tiltsta said:
The friend is a liver transplant surgeon, and his friend is a retired professional football player. The surgeon and I met 20 years ago when he was a visiting professor and I was a post doc at the same university in NY. The two of them went to school together as kids in Switzerland. You can tell which of the three of us chose the best path in life, as my only car is a MB C400 wagon, and the surgeon drives a VW Sharan, which sounds exotic but is actually a minivan. I think the only pharma link is that pharma brought me to Switzerland.
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Footballers do love them some exotic cars!

I was just playing the odds with my guess. Plenty of Geneva's uber wealthy have Phama ties.

We have a shit ton of biomed and pharma company facilities in San Diego, and the parking lots often look like car shows. My sister worked at one where she embarrassed to show up every day in her lowly black Porsche Boxster S. :)

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And the price offer on the 612 is surprisingly good. Dude even offered to do the next service and pay for the MFK (Swiss inspection). I'm going to talk to my bank guy tomorrow to clear up some cash. I might be a Ferrari owner soon. Seller tells me the car has an interesting (in a positive way) provenance.
 
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dmn23 said:
Quattroporte III! Straight up gangsta. God, I love those. The interior was absurd, it was like Tony Soprano's living room.

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Pretty sure I posted it somewhere in this thread, but there's a silver/grey one just like that in perpetual mint condition that I see around town fairly often. Nice older guy owns it, keeps it garaged but isn't afraid to run it around town. Such a fascinating car that rides the razor's edge between stunningly beautiful and horrendously ugly.

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