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In the humid, buzzing heart of Bangkok’s automotive district, a young painter named Anong knelt before a 1973 Porsche 911. The car was the color of oxidized blood, its clearcoat peeling like sunburnt skin. The owner, a French collector named Monsieur Reynard, stood behind her, arms crossed. “The machine cannot see the soul of a