Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll find out what happened to one of the oldest taxis on the streets after it stopped carrying passengers in New York City.coinx

It logged more than 550,000 miles as a taxi in New York City before going into forced retirement in April.

Since then the vehicle has traveled another 4,000 miles but not with its king-size V-8 engine revving under the hood. The taxi went to Italy in a container ship, having been sold to a tech industry project manager in Milan for $7,000.

“Everybody thinks it’s crazy,” said the car’s new owner, Mauro Marroncelli. “I actually agree with them, in a way.” He is 38, which he described as “turning almost 40” before saying: “Maybe when you approach that age, you start doing this.”

He said the decommissioned taxi, a 2011 Ford Crown Victoria, would be a “weekend car” that would look as it did in New York. He is keeping the bright yellow paint job and the black taxi symbol on the driver’s side door. He plans to put the old medallion number, 6D76, back on the light atop the roof. The major difference between the taxi’s old and new lives: There’s no meter inside.

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