I figured I’d have to commemorate my “eventful” drive home from San Francisco with a new CPotD theme: “Failed to proceed.”
In this photo my father forgot to replace the oil filler cap on the 450sl. He had topped off the “710” in Houston prior to my arrival, and we had put a few hundred miles behind us when I noticed a drop in oil pressure just as he was pondering the sheen of oil on the passenger side windshield. We pulled off the freeway to find the engine bay bathed in Mobil1. Thankfully the filler cap had stayed right where my father left it! We topped it up again and were on our way swiftly.
This was the drive from Houston to Amelia Island for the Forza Amelia Vintage Rally in 2004.