{"id":460540,"date":"2005-08-01T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=82588"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:29:06","slug":"strange-specials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/strange-specials\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Specials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pete Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Forgive me, please, but I can\u2019t tell you much about any of these oddities. I present them here and now for the same reason that made me and, I presume, my dad take their pictures\u2014astonishment. \u201cHey, isn\u2019t this a weird one?\u201d Some were quite good-looking, but others\u2026well, maybe we shot them to put them out of their misery. Then both we, and history, moved on, and neither of us ever saw these strange specimens again. Meanwhile, alternative, successful gene pools created by the Jim Halls and Colin Chapmans established the shape of today\u2019s racing world.<\/p>\n

But take a fresh look at these forgotten ones. Aren\u2019t they fun to look at? See how bold they are, how imaginative, how down-to-earth practical? It takes guts to craft contraptions like these, and I reckon some desperation as well\u2014a need to race, so intense that you don\u2019t care what anyone thinks. Well, haven\u2019t we all had that feeling?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n