Opinion
Caitlyn Jenner’s favourite automobile is a tribute to her WWII veteran dad
Caitlyn Jenner is aware of a couple of issues about cool vehicles.
Jenner is commonly seen out and about in her Porsche 911 GT2 RS.
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The Olympic champion competed within the IMSA sports activities automobile collection via the Eighties, lately launched a workforce within the all-female W Collection racing league and her every day driver right now is a Porsche 911 GT2 RS, which is about as tremendous as vehicles get.
Caitlyn Jenner’s 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite is similar to the one her father taught her to drive in.
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Her favourite automobile, nevertheless, is a a lot humbler two-seater that holds a really particular which means to her.
“Once I was 15 years outdated, my dad taught me the way to drive in an Austin-Healey, 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite,” Jenner instructed The Fox Storage.
Jenner’s father bought it earlier than she bought her driver’s license.
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“After which, a couple of months later, it was my birthday, and I went down and bought my driver’s license, got here house, and the automobile wasn’t within the storage and I stated, ‘Dad, the place’s the Bugeye? I can lastly drive it on the road.’ He goes, ‘I bought it this morning.’ I used to be devastated.”
Jenner by no means forgot the automobile and about seven years in the past discovered one which seemed precisely like her father’s and acquired it.
Jenner memorialized her father with a notice on the automobile.
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“And on the again, proper the place it says ‘Sprite’ I put ‘Dad’s Sprite’ in honor of my father, who’s a World Battle II veteran, landed on Omaha seaside, buried at Arlington,” she stated.
“He was an important American, an important patriot, and he would actually admire that I had that automobile right now.”
Her father, William Hugh Jenner, was additionally a powerful athlete in his personal proper, having gained a silver medal within the 100-meter sprint on the “GI Olympics” held in Nuremberg after the autumn of the Nazi regime.
The elder Jenner died in 2000 at age 77 after a profession as a tree surgeon and landscaper.
