Ancestor

Orange lacquer runs the length of the hood and breaks into long white reflections before ending at a black oval badge, the gold Lamborghini script and its small triangle set above a grille of dark vertical slats split by a single orange rib. Two round chrome headlamps sit low on either side, a chrome exhaust stack rises up the left side of the frame, and the dark rim of the steering wheel shows just over the crest of the sheet metal. Pale blue fenders curve in from both edges, and past them the deep-lugged tires, the red flank of another vehicle and a band of grass all fall away out of focus. …