…you know Marty Wyndham? He netted $650,000 out of that merger… 26 years old. The guy’s
Rambo. Got himself a Porsche Turbo Cabriolet about 75 thou, got a house in Westhampton, penthouse on
Second Avenue, gets up at 2:30 in the morning, he’s in the office at 4… guy never sleeps… Rambo genes…– Wall Street, 1987
In the 1980s, showing your success was good. And for these bankers on Wall Street, New York, that meant taking their cars to work. Your office had a cheese plant and a toy basketball hoop over the bin. These big swinging dicks had Porsche 911, Ferrari F40 or a Lamborghini Countach in theirs – reassruringly expensive cars that veered from cutting-edge design to to ultimate gauche, and then some.
During this, Rudy, Gordon’s 3 year-old son, drives in in the latest electronic baby toy — a Porsche-bodied electric car. Gekko hangs up, checks out a Reuters quotron positioned nearby.
– Wall Street script, 1987
The three men banned from the City were known as the Flaming Ferraris after their favourite drink.. A Flaming Ferrari is a mixture of 100% proof rum, Grand Marnier and Green Chartreuse which is then set on fire and drunk through a straw.
– BBC report into City of London financial traders
Via: Wall Street Memoir on Instagram.
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