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The Amelia Island Concours d'Elégance is a serious car show in the sense that it's run in a highly professional manner and features high-caliber cars and judges, but not in the sense that it takes itself more seriously than any car show should.
Proof of the latter was the "What Were They Thinking" class of automotive oddities at this year's event, which happened over the weekend. Our friend Rob Sass, Publisher of
Hagerty Classic Car Magazine, was at the show and submits these five as his favorites:
1974 Fascination (above)
Looking like a prop from a bad sci-fi movie or a "cars of the future" illustration from a 1930s issue of
Popular Mechanics, eccentric would-be auto tycoon Paul M. Lewis originally envisioned the car to be propeller-powered. Eventually, he abandoned the idea of a pedestrian Cuisinart and settled on this Renaut-powered creation. Five of these oddities were build in Sidney, Nebraska before Lewis' obviously saner board members ousted him and put an end to the madness. All five cars survive today in the hands of just two collectors.
Rob Sass
is the Publisher of Hagerty Classic Cars magazine.
He is a regular contributor to the automotive section of the New York Times
and is the author of "Ran When Parked, Advice and Adventures from the Affordable Underbelly of Car Collecting."
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