The passenger of a battered Honda waved a flag as he passed and yelled, "God bless the General!" A silver Jaguar's driver gave three short bleats.
"I sat on it for a day or two," says Cooke (below left, with Minichiello) "then thought, why not?" Sheffield-born Minichiello had switched sports herself in 2001, from the heptathlon (she was formerly married to Tony, Jessica Ennis's coach), and won world championship silver as a driver in the two-woman bobsleigh in 2005.
In a booming voice, he yelled, "What's up, Nick?" Stopped in traffic, in a silver S.U.V. with the driver's window down, was Nicholas Turturro, who played one of the Jewish jazz-club owners in "Mo' Better Blues" and has appeared in several of Lee's other films.
I think of this intersection of nature and technology hours later as I clamber into my vehicle – a new Toyota FJ Cruiser, promptly nicknamed the "Silver Surfer" by the drivers of the five other cars in our convoy.
"Fucking morons!" the driver of a silver Porsche shouted.
A driver in a silver S.U.V. honked at them for blocking the street.
As Beck came to a halt, another driver in a silver Vauxhall Astra who had pulled out behind him, collided with the stationary Polo.
The driver of a silver Lincoln Town Car livery cab was turning left onto 145th Street when he was struck by a Toyota pickup truck traveling south on Seventh Avenue, the police said.
And then there is Nikolai, the well-mannered, ambitious ex-convict with slicked-back silver hair who serves as driver and wingman for Semyon's impulsive, unhappy son, Kirill (Vincent Cassel).
Ms. Pierre said that Ms. Koenigsberg was thrown about 20 feet into the middle of the avenue and that the driver brought his silver Ford Focus to a stop but did not get out.
