Car mysteries, aberrations and curiosities
The history of the automobile is full of exciting odysseys and wrong turns that individual vehicles have taken. These mysterious stories are often forgotten when the people who were involved die, but some can be rescued into modern times if there are pictorial or text documents relating to them.
One example of this is the story of the Aston-Martin DB3S/150.
The vehicle started out as an open-top racing sports car, was then converted into a coupé, only to be restored to its original form much later. The coupé body, a one-off, was unfortunately destroyed in the process. The story is told in more detail in a report.
Or there was the Morgan Coupé, which was presented at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show on the initiative of the Swiss importer.
The Morgan patron in England was "not amused" and had the importer destroy the car if he was to continue supplying him. But the car survived and will one day be restored to its original glory. We will be writing a more detailed report on this soon.
We have already heard about the Graber Ford GT40 this week.
Many of our readers know stories like this. We want to hear these stories and will research and document them. After all, these mysteries are part of the appeal of old cars.
