2002 Story Set
| July 14, 2002 Fabio's 6-bedroom Mediterranean style house is located in Tarzana, Ca. He bought it from Dynasty Star Catherine Oxenberg and hr then husband, star ship troopers, Casper Van Dien in 2000. [Who cares who used to own it!] STAR, a magazine to forever boycott, recently commented on it. "I'll pass on the Hummer with two flat tires in the driveway, next to the rusted heap that looks like it once was a nice Rolls Royce." Geez. Only TWO flat tires? Hardly newsworthy! All four of my 64 VW bug's tires are flat. Hummers by the way, can re-inflate their own tires. (He has the military version so it can do this. It can also flip itself over and back with its own winch. And is, he says, expensive to maintain. He is selling it. "Nice off-road but terrible on the street," he says.) My VW cannot inflate its own tires. Why I have AAA Plus. Three of his six cars are being sold off (including the Hummer) since he much prefers bikes and has 140 of them. The bikes are well maintained, cherished even (some are collector's items), and stored in the big garage and in their very own trailer. When he gets more bikes (he wants 365 - one for each day of the week he says with a cute grin), he will add trailers. He tinkers with them. STAR complained that, "The furniture is covered with plastic, and the fridge is empty except for vitamins." Of course it is empty - he doesn't cook! (We'd all be happy to bring things should we be invited into his kitchen.) He eats out. He can afford to. His vitamins are from a health food store and must be chilled to stay fresh - he recently told me to get my vitamins from a health food store as well. This is a news story? His kitchen looks like a garage? Of course it does! He doesn't cook! I have heard women complain about not being able to take a bath because of transmissions in the bathtub so he is hardly unique! Men take over any space they can when playing with their mechanical toys. No women lives there to chase him out of the kitchen. (Unless his mother is visiting, and I'd love to see that! She does cook!) He has 3 acres of land - and who of us doesn't have an old car hanging around on occasion? My dad had 12 at one time, on 18 acres up in the country in Connecticut. He used them for parts. The oldest was an old Model T Ford Truck - just the rusted chassis was left when I saw it last. He rebuilt engines for his own cars. He taught my brothers. They cut out parts to sell. They chopped up metal to recycle (for a fee). When he retired, he finally had the last bits and pieces carted away. His basement (and remember that in LA they doesn't build houses with basements) was wall to wall tools and junk. We called it a "workshop". I have no doubt he would have soaked things in the kitchen if my stepmother had allowed it. I have a 64 VW Bug that will eventually be put back together as a classic. Hasn't moved out of the driveway in 8 years. Something about a teenager driving it last. My 87 van has a bashed-in back end - but new taillights. Runs fine. I love it that way. I didn't want to fix everything on it and give it to a new driver. Something intimidating about being given a big white box to drive. Both sit right next to the shiny new silver extended-cab Tacoma TRD truck. I can go up and down the street where I live and see this all the time! No house on my street has less than three cars. Some of them have more. Not counting the occasional RV. This is a news story? Not to those of us who love toys. |
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