# Senator Kennedy has expensive taste in cars! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542 "2007-02-02T14:52:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/1 "2007-02-02T14:52:05Z")
I was on Storrow Drive here in Boston a while ago, and saw something curious a few cars ahead of me. It was a current-generation [Mercedes S55 AMG](http://autos.yahoo.com/mercedes_benz_s_class_s55_amg_sedan/), with a Washington D.C. plate numbered “10”. Thinking this must be someone important, I made my way closer. As I did, I noticed a small Ferrari shield decal tucked on the bottom left side of the rear window. “Hmm,” I thought, “interesting…” After some more weaving in and out of traffic, I pulled up alongside the car, and looked at who was inside. And who did I see but Senator Edward Kennedy! I would have expected him to be a passenger in a limo with a bodyguard or something, but nope…just a (relatively) ordinary car moving with the rest of traffic. Anyway, he glared at me, and I took the next exit. Just thought I’d share… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/2 "2007-02-02T15:12:24Z")
I wouldn’t recommend driving too close to him. The Charles River is right there and I doubt he would put down his scotch to call you some help at least not until much later. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/3 "2007-02-02T15:22:42Z")
You saw a _Kennedy_? In _Boston_? Well, color me amazed ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/4 "2007-02-02T15:29:10Z")
(Obligatory Chappaquiddick joke.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/5 "2007-02-02T16:39:03Z")
It’s the Snorkel option that is the expensive thing… ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/6 "2007-02-02T17:49:46Z")
I used to go to a lot of DP functions-and the Kennedies seemed to favor beat-up old Chevies… I guess Ted is speonding some money in his final years. I agree-the man probably was either a few minutes from having a double scotch, or a few minutes from having a double scotch-watch out! ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/7 "2007-02-02T18:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] I used to go to a lot of DP functions-and the Kennedies seemed to favor beat-up old Chevies.. [/QUOTE] That’s just what they drive for show when they go out to meet the common folk. I’m sure they don’t drive them in their private lives. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kennedy-has-expensive-taste-in-cars/390542/8 "2007-02-03T06:06:47Z")
Hmmm… substitute T. Cullen Davis, Cadillac and I-30 and I told this story a decade or two back. Wealthy killers… _Don’t want to live with 'em, can’t incarcerate 'em._ Not much satisfaction there, huh?