VELOCITY CLUB GETS UP TO SPEED.(Revs)

Byline: GEORGE P. BLUMBERG

The lobby and portecochere of the swank Delamar Greenwich Harbor hotel are filled with supercars at the launch party of the Velocity of Greenwich Performance Car Club.

Moving over marble floors beneath crystal chandeliers, waiters juggle canape trays and champagne flutes, navigating amid the stunning array of vehicles available to club members. They pirouette past the Porsche Carrera GT and the Mercedes SLR McLaren with winged doors in flight, squeeze by a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Gallardo Spyder and duck behind a Ferrari F430 and a 360 Spider. Whoops, don't spill champagne on the Ford GT or the DB-9 Volante with its buttery leather. And mind the Porsche GT3 and the Corvette Z06, please.

Such a mechanical assortment is fitting in Greenwich, rated No. 1 in per capita income ($74,346) among U.S. cities with populations of more than 50,000. With 61,972 inhabitants, Greenwich is home to 66,000 vehicles, including 2300 cars worth more than $50,000 each, according to a Hartford Courant newspaper article. The town's property appraiser counts 94 Ferraris, 90 Bentleys, 65 Aston Martins, 40 Maseratis and 39 Rolls-Royces. This excludes the exotics owned by Greenwich residents but registered elsewhere.

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