Nej, ikke helt. David Bowie’s første bil var en ret antik Riley-racer, som han kaldte for…Rupert. Under portrættet af de to fortæller Bowie i 2003 Dominic Mohan om bilen.

– It was an old racer from the.. you know, I think it probably goes back to the thirties or something and a mate of mine and me had put it together – not very well as it happens – and it stalled outside Lewisham police station one day. I had really long hair in those days so I was standing round the front of the car, trying to pump it back into life again and all the cops were at the windows laughing at me and the bloody thing started up and I’d left it in first gear and it came at me. The crankshaft went through my leg and I was pumping blood like a fountain and I broke both my, well I cracked both my knees as the bumper had kind of got me pinned to another car that was just behind it. sold it as soon as I got out of Lewisham Hospital. The most fortunate part is that it was the police station where I broke down. I was bleeding profusely, but their medics were on the street in about 30 seconds flat.