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"Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Naomi Watts, and Others Reveal Their Favorite Vintage Cars\nBen Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Watts, and others reveal the wheels they own or only dream of\nWith a touch of gray in his beard, Ben Affleck, attending the National Board of Review awards gala in New York (where he picked up a special-achievement award), had the \u201970s on his mind.\u00A0\u201CI\u2019m not Jay Leno by any means,\u201D the director of Argo said. \u201CRather than buy the cars, I get obsessed with them on eBay.\u00A0And I go through them all the time\u2014I look at the Chevelles, all those great old \u201970 muscle cars.\u00A0I used to have a convertible Malibu. And when we first moved to California, my brother and I bought a \u201972 Cadillac Sedan De Ville,\u00A0which, for sentimental reasons, I still have, in storage.\u00A0I love those cars, I love that era. That was really my time.\u00A0Odd, because I really don\u2019t remember any of it. \u201D\nOn his way to be honored by God\u2019s Love We Deliver at their annual fund-raiser, Michael Kors, who donated $5 million to the cause that night, explained, \u201CI\u2019m not a car guy, but maybe if I were a teenager on Long Island again\u2014a Trans-Am with a big bow on the window.\u201D\nAt Fashion Group International\u2019s Night of Stars I saw actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who had on a colorful ribbon-striped dress by designer L\u2019Wren Scott, whom she was honoring with an award that night. \u201CMy son [James Wilkie Broderick]\u00A0is very, very into muscle cars from the \u201970s,\u201D said Parker. \u201CBut I\u2019m a fan of Karmann Ghias.\u201D\nModel Brooklyn Decker, married to retired tennis pro Andy Roddick, now owns her car of choice.\u00A0\u201CIt\u2019s a 1973 Ford Bronco,\u201D she told AD at the God\u2019s Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards. \u201CI just bought it this year, and I\u2019ve wanted one ever since I can remember. It\u2019s Carolina-blue,\u201D said the native Tar Heel. \u201CI cruise around in it every chance I get\u2014I feel really cool in it.\u201D\nAs he was heading into the Center for Women\u2019s Reproductive Rights Inaugural Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center, actor Stanley Tucci, seen here with his wife, Felicity Blunt, mentioned he\u2019s also not really a car guy. But that he did once fall in love with a Bugatti race car: \u201CI saw it in a warehouse. It was gray, I think, stunning. It was a piece of sculpture. Whether it could move or not, I really didn\u2019t care.\u201D\nKarolina Kurkova related that she once owned a car that most men drool over.\u00A0\u201CI actually had a Porsche from 1961, very similar to the one James Dean had [the 550 Spyder],\u201D said Kurkova. \u201CIt was beautiful.\u00A0But I never actually drove it, because it was in restoration for years. It\u2019s tough to have old cars\u2014they need so much work!\u201D\nAt FGI\u2019s Night of Stars, designer Karl Lagerfeld, with a tall starched white collar, short gloves, and dark glasses, looked as if he was properly attired to pilot a classic auto.\u00A0\u201CI love old Duesenbergs,\u201D he replied. \u201CThere is nothing more beautiful than a Duesenberg.\u201D\nAt the BAFTA Tea Party honoring Golden Globes nominees, actor Bradley Cooper paused for a moment on the red carpet to reflect. \u201CI\u2019d like a \u201965 Mustang, because my dad had one,\u201D he said.\nThe last siren to arrive at the Plaza Hotel for Bergdorf Goodman\u2019s 111th anniversary f\u00EAte, glamorous British singer Rita Ora, had on a spectacular long white dress by Peter Dundas for Pucci, with a train that spilled to the ground. \u201CI\u2019d probably just want an old-school Cadillac,\u201D noted Ora.\nAustralian actress Naomi Watts, who wore a blouse from Target to the company\u2019s 50th-anniversary gala in Manhattan\u2019s Chelsea neighborhood, said that she would love to have an AMI Rambler from the \u201970s. \u201CI had a friend ten years ago who had one,\u201D explained Watts, who will play Princess Diana in an upcoming biopic. \u201CI loved it. It\u2019s a big tank of a car.\u201D\nMusician Josh Groban, also at the Target f\u00EAte, replied that he would like to own \u201Ca 1968 Mercedes SL or\u00A0an early \u201970s convertible SL, in navy-blue with a tan interior. With those kinds of cars, the harder you drive them, the better they drive,\u201D said Groban. \u201COf course, I don\u2019t drive at all in New York City, but it might be nice just to have one in a garage somewhere.\u201D\nAt the Bergdorf Goodman event, designer Derek Lam referred to a \u201C1963 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors, the most chic car ever made. At the first shoot I ever did with my clothing, we used that car,\u201D he explained.\nActress Ren\u00E9e Zellweger, who was honoring fashion designer Carolina Herrera with an FGI Superstar award at the Night of Stars, answered with enthusiasm: \u201CI like the Plymouth Road Runner, 1972. Oooooh, it\u2019s got a dual exhaust . . . beautiful!\u201D\\n\\nA 1969 Plymouth Road Runner shown here.\nMartha Stewart, at the Bergdorf Goodman anniversary event, said that her favorite vintage vehicle was her Ford Edsel. \u201CI have a pink-and-white two-door 1958 Edsel station wagon,\u201D she said.\u00A0\u201CAnd I keep it in Maine at my Edsel Ford house.\u201D (Yes, Martha Stewart confirmed that her Maine getaway was previously owned by Edsel Ford, the son of Ford founder Henry Ford.) \u201CMy daughter gave the car to me as a joke,\u201D she related. \u201CBut I love it.\u00A0We drive it to town, and I wonder why people are looking at me.\u00A0It\u2019s a great car with a push-button transmission, well before its time.\u201D\nAlso at the Bergdorf Goodman event, Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli arrived on the arm of supermodel Karoline Kurkova. \u201CI have one very nice vintage\u00A0car\u2014a\u00A0Ferrari Daytona from 1970,\u201D Cavalli said. \u201CI have a guy who goes there every week to check on it.\u00A0It\u2019s like my baby.\u201D\nDesigner Carolina Herrera, who took home an FGI Superstar award at the Night of Stars, mentioned that she\u2019d had some rather elegant cars over the years. \u201CI had an old Mercedes-Benz cabriolet, black and red\u2014it was very beautiful,\u201D she said.\u00A0\u201CAnd I also had the Mercedes Gullwing, which was amazing. I drove it myself. Reinaldo [her husband] is tall, but he could fit into it.\u201D\nDesigner Jonathan Adler\u2019s car of choice? At Donna Karan\u2019s Connecting the Dots affair, Adler, seen here with his husband, Simon Doonan, told AD, \u201CI\u2019m going to go with the obvious\u2014a Jaguar E-Type. It doesn\u2019t get more beautiful, more attenuated, or more powerful than that. In general, I find guys in sports cars a little embarrassing, but the Jaguar E-Type? I would rock that hard.\u201D\nAt a luncheon for the Princess Grace Foundation at Restaurant Daniel, HRH Princess Firyal of Jordan, after complimenting my tie and fixing my collar, spoke of a Bugatti that caught her eye. \u201CMy brother-in-law [the late King Hussein of Jordan] had a collection of great old cars, and he had a Bugatti as beautiful as a bride,\u201D she said. \u201CIf you\u2019re interested in vintage cars, you must come and visit the Royal Automobile Museum in Jordan.\u201D\nOn the red carpet at the HBO debut of the second season of Girls, supermodel Paulina Porizkova was standing next to her rocker husband, Ric Ocasek, legendary lead singer of the Cars.\u00A0A vehicle she particularly loves? \u201CHim,\u201D she said, laughing, \u201Cmy husband, Ric!\u201D\nAt the inaugural A Night of New York Class gala, actress Pamela Anderson (shown with photographer Terry Richardson), there in support of the organization NYCLASS, which is working to pass a ban on the use of carriage horses and replacing them with electric autos, told AD that she exclusively drives vintage cars. \u201CI only have old Range Rovers and an old International Harvester Scout from the \u201960s,\u201D she said. \u201CAnd yes, Scouts are fun.\u201D\nAlso at the Plaza, fashion designer Olivier Theyskens was amused when asked about his vintage car of choice. \u201CThat\u2019s very funny,\u201D he said, laughing, \u201Cbecause my grandfather kept all of these old Ladas [a popular Russian car during the Soviet years], which was the worst car possible, but still kind of cool.\u00A0And I played in them all the time when I was a child.\u00A0They were abandoned in a field.\u00A0But now I\u2019d love to have an old American car, an old Pontiac or Chrysler . . . but I have no driver\u2019s license.\u201D\nFashion designer Peter Som, also at the Plaza, had a sob story about his classic car. \u201CI actually had an \u201989 Mercedes two-seater, and it was white, so I felt very Alexis Carrington Colby,\u201D he said, referring to the oft-married character from Dynasty played by Joan Collins. \u201CBut I sold it.\u201D And what does Som drive today? \u201CI hail a cab,\u201D he said.\nAt the God\u2019s Love We Deliver event was Bette Midler, who also mentioned a Mercedes.\u00A0\u201CAn old Mercedes sports car, maybe 1952 or 1953,\u201D she said. \u201CI knew a director in Rome, Franco Brusati, who had one.\u00A0It was a blue convertible, and it was the most beautiful thing. My husband and I almost fainted when we saw it.\u201D\nOn his way into the Princess Grace Foundation Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street, astronaut Buzz Aldrin had on a shiny silver-metal bow tie.\u00A0\u201CBefore all the space travel, I had a lot of fun driving a little powder-blue Austin Healey Sprite, maybe \u201958,\u201D Aldrin recalled. \u201CI drove it around Germany, put it on a ship, and drove it around California. And then I drove it to MIT and back.\u201D\nThe Inquisitive Guest caught up with comedian and actor Rob Riggle (2012\u2019s 21 Jump Street) at the Critics\u2019 Choice Movie Awards, where automotive glories of the past gave way to the design of the future. \u201CI just saw the new Tesla Model S\u2014it\u2019s purely electric. It\u2019s like a sedan, but the most beautiful car you\u2019ve ever seen.\u00A0It has a big beautiful touch screen. It\u2019s gorgeous. That would be the car.\u201D\\n\\n\u201CThe Tesla,\u201D agreed actress Olivia Munn. \u201CIt\u2019s earth-friendly, and it looks like it\u2019s from the future.\u201D\\n\\n\u201CI\u2019d like to get the new Tesla sedan,\u201D director Judd Apatow later chimed in on the red carpet at the Golden Globes with his wife, actress Leslie Mann."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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