Festering automotive wound of a Concours raises its ugly cylinder head on yet another highbrow car gathering
last year all over the country. Everybody seems to be in on the joke. Hagerty started sponsoring Lemons several years ago—Hagerty, a real insurance company that should know better.
“I’m constantly getting invitations from events that you’d think would know better. But concours officials come to the Concours d’Lemons, have a good time, and want to bring some of the fun to their events as well.” This year, across the swamp from The Amelia, the coveted Concours d’Lemons Worst in Show award, along with a shopping bag full of useless gag gifts, went to an outhouse, yes, an outhouse. The owner had tipped it on its side, mounted it on some sort of mutant riding lawn mower thing, cut a hole in one of its plastic sides from which to poke his head out, and proudly drove into the winner’s circle, having beaten out 54 other entries for the glory.
Yes, there were 55 “cars” on the field this year. Grab a bucket—or a barf bag—and click on through the. See if there’s something there you like, something that might inspire you. Maybe the car you drove to the prom in 1976 made this year’s cut, or the car you were driving the first time you got arrested. And start scanning the classifieds—and
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