A guy at work drives a '73 Citroen SM, in very good condition. I'll bet he'd have a spaz attack viewing this car. Practicality is out the window when taste is in charge. And a taste which leans toward French design... Besides if plain old utility had the final say, none of us would ever be allowed to like anything. It would be a plain, generic, boring world with no place for Industrial Design, or Diana Dors, or the French for that matter. When it comes to impractical cars, I'm more of a TR3 kind of guy. But there's something about this car...
Those SM coupes were great, the Maserati engine had issues with the timing chain that were very expensive as I recall.
First one I ever saw in person was owned and driven by Burt Reynolds. He apparently fell in love with the Transylvania County/Jackson County, North Carolina area while filming a rather infamous movie in the vicinity (the stereotypes perpetuated and magnified by which they’re still living down, lol) and built a home on a mountaintop there, named it World’s End or something like that.