Wheels of Deception: Hamptons Automotive Oddities - Dan's Papers
Tweet For many years now, I’ve been working on a theory about cars in the Hamptons. The theory, which I’ve elaborated on at great length to many fascinated listeners, is meant to explain the presence of what I call “automotive oddities” on Hamptons streets. An automotive oddity is a very particular type of car, perhaps best defined by what it is not. An automotive oddity is not a classic car, like a Ford Mustang or a Karmann Ghia. Certainly, automotive oddities are not to be confused with the super-expensive cars that routinely show up during the summer months around here—the run-of-the-mill Maseratis and Aston-Martins that seem to sprout like weeds from the cracks in... The automotive oddity is the 1963 Dodge Dart that looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. It’s a vintage car of undistinguished design, your standard-issue, working-class vehicle that nobody thinks of as a classic, remarkable only for the fact that it is so well preserved and still in working order. The car might look interesting now, inasmuch as it displays an old-fashioned aesthetic, yet you know that when it was new it was nobody’s dream car. That’s the automotive oddity. Perhaps if I describe a recent sighting of an automotive oddity, the precise nature of the beast will become clear. Source: www.danspapers.com
