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If the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance represents the pinnacle of wheeled beauty, the Concours d’LeMons is the axle spindle that drags across the cement when you lose a wheel, gouging into the concrete roadway until it digs in and sticks, flipping the car and igniting a giant fireball. Oh, the autonomy! If Figoni et Falaschi had been raised by wolves and the Bugatti brothers had hailed from a trailer park instead of pre-war Italian sophistication, they would all fit in just perfectly at the Concours d’LeMons.

“We’re gonna keep doing it until they make us stop,” said Alain Galbraith, the 6-foot-7 entrepreneur responsible for this debacle every year for the past -- oh gawd, how long has it been?

“We allow bad examples of good cars and good examples of bad cars,” Galbraith explained to a European journalist who had apparently gotten lost on the way to 17 Mile Drive.

There were 105 cars entered this year, none of which you’d want to be seen driving. The 105 included: a two-stroke 1960 Vespa 400 (that’s a car, not a scooter), 1987 Fiero rebodied into a Ferrari 355, 1965 Wolseley Hornet, 1959 Tempo Matador Camper, and a 1978 Seab Flipper 1.

Yes a Seab Flipper 1.

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