Amelia Island's "Weird Class"

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Every year The Amelia Island Concours features a "crazy" class; advertising vehicles and coachbuilt Corvairs were previous such classes. This year's weird class was "What Were They Thinking" and no answer is obvious, based on these three vehicles.  The sleek blue roadster is Geoffrey Hacker's 1962 El Tiburon Shark, restored in 90 days just in time for the event. The 1974 Fascination, owned by Keith and Ellen Carpenter, has graced the Amelia field before but just had to return for this class. (If you click on the link for the car's original brochure, you'll wonder, "What were they smoking"?) German coachbilder "Carosseriebau Hermann Spohn", founded in 1920 in Ravensburg, was a respected German coachbuilder favored by Maybach, but Ralph Marano's and Wayne Carini's one-off 1957 Spohn convertible is probably not the company's most attractive product. Supposedly Spohn's last body, build just before it closed down, it certainly takes '50s excess taken to the max... maybe even beyond that!
(photos and text Gregory Wells)        

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