The Car Connection
LUXURY DEVOTEE: WILLIAM SHAWN
William Shawn, 66, a Washington lawyer, comanaging partner in ShawnCoulson International Lawyers, and part owner of an Aston Martin and Bentley dealership, admits to an “obsessive mentality about these cars.” For 35 years, he owned a succession of Porsches and now drives an Aston Martin. “We had a Bentley, recently sold, and we have a little Ferrari,” he adds. Shawn enjoys taking his fast cars to Summit Point Motorsports Park in West
Virginia. After his Porsche “got sorely whipped” four years ago by Aston Martins, he bought his first, a Vantage V-8—James Bond’s car, considered entry-level. Now he drives a four-door Aston Martin Rapide, “the most gorgeous car ever made.” With a current fleet of five cars and only a two-car garage, the Georgetown resident saysstorage is a problem. “We’ve rented garages from neighbors,” he says, adding that his love of exotic cars is hereditary, with his father and grandfather as aficionados. “It gets in your blood.”
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