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Bentley Wishes, Ferrari Dreams Come True, at Least for a Day
James Kim, foreground, general manager of Capital Dream Cars, with CEO brother-in-law Eugene Kim and two of their cars, a red Ferrari and a Bentley Continental.
(Photos By Rich Lipski -- The Washington Post)
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The choice was a surprise to Meagan Cooper, a laboratory technician whom he married in May. "I think she was thinking it would be a Dodge Viper or some other kind of regular sports car," he says.
Meagan, 25, lighted up when she saw the car the night before the wedding, her husband recalls. So excited, she jumped behind the steering wheel before Jamie had a chance. Everyone oohed and aahed as the couple showed up at the rehearsal dinner, where the guests spent more time outside ogling the car than inside preparing for the ceremony.
"It was a crowd stunner," Meagan says. Driving down the Dulles Greenway, Jamie didn't think he'd ever been stared at so much.
"The car's just begging, 'Please let me go, please open it up,' " he says. "It takes a lot of restraint not to." The Leesburg couple has set aside a special savings account to buy one some day. For now, Jamie will love his Dodge Ram 2500 and Meagan her Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
Kim's own passions have a long history. Even as a teenager, the Northern Virginia native loved Ferraris so much that he volunteered at a dealership. "Clerical work. Filing. It was mundane work," he says, but he was able to be near the cars, smell them, see them, hear them.
He'd talk with mechanics, sneak moments to sit in the cars.
"My family thought I was crazy," says Kim, who now has two young children of his own. "They never understood my passion for cars."
He doesn't have to worry about that anymore. Now fellow car lovers come to him, ready to pay for a piece of the fantasy.
