Category: Weird Seen

A photo of mine has been chosen as the cover shot for the 300 Star Letter, the magazine of the Gull Wing Group. The Gull Wing Group is a US-based club of 300sl owners… something I don’t qualify for, so I’m not a member. My parents are members though, and I got that photograph while co-driving their ’57 300sl roadster in the 2004 Colorado Grand. My father called me yesterday when his arrived. He saw the shot and at first thought: wow, that is JUST LIKE a classic “Chuck” photograph! Then he recognized the #47 from their car and knew it was an ACTUAL “Chuck” shot, and called me.

Funny thing is, I don’t recall granting permission for the photograph to be used in such a manner. Mind you I may have forgotten. I’ll have to dig around in my email to see.

Here is the original, untouched, uncropped image:

So that is the answer to the last Car Photo of the Day post. Yeah… I think it is ugly too. 😉

I guess they are famous GM prototypes. All turbine-powered. All painted silver. Each of them ugly as … well they are really ugly. I saw them on the field at the Amelia Island Concours a few years ago.

Here are some photos of the other two:

Thank god some visions of the future never come true.

OK, this could be a VERY tough one, especially as it is a close-up.

I have hints if people are getting nowhere, but who knows… maybe one of you will nail it on the first guess.

So this one was seen at the Amelia Island Concours in 2004. The D-type “fin” is a bit out of place, but the car should be easy to identify.

Sorry for the small photo, but this one is a classic. On the rainy New England 2000 some guys brought a Johnson-Era Presidential Lincoln Limo, complete with a Monica Lewinsky blow-up doll. They topped that insanity by actually taking the barge out on the autcross course! It had everyone rolling on the asphalt laughing. Somehow I managed to capture the funniest moment of their whole run, when the limo threww a hubcab rounding a right-hand corner. MASSIVE understeer!