Maestros and their motor cars (14): Jascha Heifetz drove a Jeep
Daily Comfort ZoneTaken while entertaining the troops.
For personal use he preferred an early electrical car.
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Who cares what he drove, talk about his considerable music-making abilities.
Is there anything left to say? Just about every word written about Heifetz has been in one way or another a mere restatement of those initial reviews of his 1917 Carnegie Hall debut.
But photos of him grinning like that are rare and always welcome.
Heifetz’s son has said if his father was alive today he’d drive a Tesla.
….. a converted Renault Dauphine…