It's 1999. The people of the world wait with baited breath as Y2K, and a potentially catastrophic computer glitch, fast approaches. The Blair Witch Project grosses over $125 million at the box office. And a young engineer, entrepreneur, and inventor named Elon Musk has just bought a $1 million McLaren F1 supercar.That's him up there, waiting to gaze upon said luxury vehicle for the first time."There are 62 McLarens in the world," muses Musk, in what's apparently his first video appearance, which was featured in a 1999 documentary on young rich people. "And I will own one of them."Enjoying newfound wealth after three hard-fought years in the Silicon Valley, and looking sheepish in an oversized brown suit, Musk covers the bases: selling his software company, Zip2, for a cool $400 million in cash ("Those are just a large number of Ben Franklins"); and his plan to transform personal banking with X.com, a banking and mutual funds company "on the Internet."It's all one big poker game, he explains. And yet, he's got higher motives. It's not really about the McLaren; it's about the satisfaction of creating things. His then-fiancée, Justine Wilson, is right there with him: "My fear is that we become spoiled brats. That we lose a sense of appreciation and perspective." (Wilson eventually married Musk, and later claimed on her LiveJournal, after her and Musk spilt, that Elon has "huge steel balls.")That's the spirit.