Jalopnik has an incredible exclusive now about a man who had all his ducks in a row, and then ran them all over with a Lamborghini. Richard Jordan had a house and a fiancé – he had a steady job and everything seemed peachy. Then, his fiancé left him, and he went off the rails. He sold everything and used the money he had to buy a Lamborghini Gallardo – it cost him $180,000, and can reach a speed of 195 miles per hour. They say you can’t run from your problems, but with this car, you ought to be able to give them a run for their money.
This was in 2006, and since, Jordan had crossed the country three times, learned a lot about himself and received over 50 parking tickets. To learn more about the car, the man, the broken laws, the broken hearts, and everything else that rightly accompanies an odyssey like this, go to Jalopnik for the full article. Or, just soak up this illustrative quote from Jordan:
"I don’t travel without guns, I’ve been in too many situations so I always carry one or two guns with me," Richard says. "A car like that is an assault on the senses, and you could be in a decent area and just be barraged by people and you never knew who you’re dealing with."
COMMENTS
June 13, 2010 6:55 am
BlowingThisWhistle
Some truth about this story:
Richard Jordan has taken Matt Hardigree on a ride with a ton of lies here. He never sold all of his possessions or spent his “life savings” to set out on the open road or to buy the Lamborghini (OR any of the other luxury cars and bikes he’s been afforded over the years).
Where to start with this pile of madness? He sold his metal fabrication business?! WHAT business? What was the name of this alleged business and to whom did he sell it and when? For that matter, WHAT JOB? And he took to the highway, living hotel to hotel after his fiancee left him???! The timeline in this is whack. He bought her a Corvette AFTER he bought the Lamborghini (and also after he bought the Hummer H1 and the Audi A4 AND the Ford F-650 AND the Cadillac and whatever else that he purchased within that five year block), and they were together for a long while afterward. What about the time he was pulled over in Indiana? Or the embarrassing time(s) he TOLD people he was Moby? The versions portrayed above of those incidents are a convoluted headache of half-truths. Witnesses were there, remember, Richard? This article leads readers to believe Mr. Jordan is some kind of nomadic Mad-Max-meets-Two-Lane-Black-Top messiah when he’s really just a delusional kid who hails from extreme privilege. I’m sure his good family is floored by this hacked up mess of words.
Hell, my elderly parents have put more out-of-state miles on their car than Richard has put on this Lambo. The most driving he’s done has been at 18o mph from Starbucks to Starbucks across the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. This is SUCH an unbelievable crock. People can’t possibly be reading this story, looking at the handful of pictures Richard took while on a few road trips along with the images of his new warehouse, and thinking all of this has no holes in it! Come on.
Richard, you owe Matt Hardigree a huge apology for wasting his time and for leading readers to believe you’re some kind of reformed victim of love who left everything behind for some romantic, American dream. Did you think an article of this popular magnitude wouldn’t be read by people who know you in real life?