A Letter from Anglesey
Field notes from the photographing of a Zagato
The weather on Anglesey is a serious participant. We arrived expecting it to be a problem and discovered, by the second morning, that it was the entire point.
A DB4 Zagato photographed in cooperative sun is a postcard. A DB4 Zagato photographed in failing mist is a machine — which is to say, an object that exists in time, with consequences. We chose the mist.
The owner, who had asked not to be named and was not, drove with the deliberateness of a man who has known the chassis for forty-one years. He did not show off. He did not need to. The Zagato shows off only when its keeper is uncertain.
A short note, then, for the next keeper of a thoroughbred: do not perform. Drive. The car will arrange the romance on its own.
— RHYS