A lifetime supply of some useless condiment awaits the winner of today’s contest!**
Name that car. Nice dashboard. Should be easy to guess.
Bonus point for naming the car parked just behind it (even easier than the car in the foreground honestly)
HUGE bonus if you can correctly identify every car in the photo.
**Not really. All you get is car-geek credibility.
First off–anyone who runs around with stuffed animals on their car has a screw loose.
Foreground: it’s a W.O. Bentley. It seemingly has a Vanden Plas tourer body on it, as a lot of them do these days. Here’s a full shot of what I imagine is a similar car: http://www.classicdriver.com/upload/images/_uk/12622/img04pop.jpg The boss on the center of the steering wheel suggests it’s a 6 1/2 litre, but I can’t be sure. Watch that center accelerator.
Next car over is a Mercedes 300 SL or a decent replica of same. Then of course we have a series 1 E-Type and finally I think it’s a Porsche 356 but I just can’t see enough to say with any authority.
You sir, and very, VERY good. My hat is off to you, as you earn a 100% score.
Yes, it is a “Blower Bentley” owned by a Dr. Edmonds of Naples FL. (His Bugatti Type 55 was pictured a few days ago in this same blog), with a 300SL behind, the E-type is the one that is now in my care, and yes, that is a Porsche 356. Well done!
The photo was taken at a rest stop of the 2000 New England 1000 vintage rally.
The stuffed animal is somewhat forgivable in this context. The rally organizers do a lot to try and involve the “other half” by creating a contest to decorate a stuffed animal with objects along the way. They have a moose and a bear IIRC. At the end of the rally they have a charity auction and sell of these things. This photo must have been shot the first day, as there are no decorations. The theory is that it gets passed to every rally team, who is supposed to add something and pass it to the next. Being a couple of guys, who feel like you do, not to mention having no room in the car, we would unload it whenever it appeared in our car… it sort of becomes a “hot potato” amongst the all-male teams!
Thanks for playing. Now that I know I have a ringer, I’ll have to pull up an oddball!
–chuck
Oh, in the 2003 New England 1000 we DID actually decorate a bear… with a broken V-belt off the XK-120. We were in the lead of the rally when the car threw a belt, and we missed the checkpoint because of it.
–chuck
What can I say, I’m an anorak. I should introduce you to my friend Jeff, he’d be able to reel off arcane stuff about all of those cars, putting everyone to sleep. I’m not far behind, but I try to not bore people who probably really don’t care, in person. The internet was made for that!
I can forgive the animal in that context 😉 but I was thinking more of the car shows you go to where several, sometimes seemingly dozens, of stuffed critters are all over display cars. If that’s the price of involving your bride, it’s too high a price to pay. 😉
ugh, yes.. the decorated cars. There is a special section in hell for those people.
Thanks for playing Roger. Now I have to find something really obscure…
–chuck
How did the cars-in-fields expedition work out, by the way?
Well, I see I’m too late! W.O’s cars/dashboards are *waaaay* too indicative and I knew right off! Great photo, chuck! I *like* bears….I have one that goes with me everywhere!
Roger said:
>How did the cars-in-fields expedition work out, by the way?
Which one would that be?
Paul said:
>I *like* bears….I have one that goes with me everywhere!
We all know you’re a lost cause anyway. 😉
–chuck