Ugly Car Show

They recently held a car show in Monterey, California
and it was not for good looking automobiles, BUT rather
for ugly ones. California is sort of an odd state with some
outside the lines ideas,..but I thought this was a pretty
good theme. How many times have you seen some ugly
car under someone's car port,..or even worse,..a rusting
hulk just sitting in a backyard for all the world to see?
There were some entries that fit that category, but I just
want to concentrate on ugly cars that came from the
factory in the state of ugly. That first car was made in
America and was the brain-child of some guy named Davis.
The car was named a Davis Divan and only eleven of them
were built in 1949 before the company went bankrupt. The
second car comes from East Germany and is a 1962 Trabant P-50.
It was offered at the height of the Cold War and was simply
transportation for the people caught on the wrong side of
the wall. Car #3 comes to us from the United Kingdom and is
a 1974 Reliant Robin. The taxes in Great Britain for an automobile
were extremely high, so this car only has three wheels so it
can be classified as a motorcycle to avoid the taxes. Still, an ugly
ride! The final photo shows a 1959 Fiat 600 and I remember
seeing a lot of these in the sixties. It was Italy's answer to the
popularity of the VW Bug. Unfortunately, it was not as reliable
as the Volkswagen and parts were extremely hard to come by.
The show was reportedly very well attended, so maybe I was
wrong about our colleagues in the Golden State...then again maybe
they were simply hurting for someplace to go.