Almost 300 cars showed up. The Roadster was in the Foreign category along with about 15 other cars. I thought the coolest car in my category was the Honda NSX but I didn't vote for it, I almost voted for it.
Here's my car at the show.
Awards were by popular vote. Lots of my friends were at the car show and I asked them to vote for me. I thought I had a chance at least at third place. I should have seen it coming but Herbie beat me for first, second, and third. One of the Volkswagen Beetles was even done up with a "53" and painted like Herbie.
The only thing I got out of that car show was a really clean car.
I guess it's impossible to beat a car with that much publicity, he made 6 movies!
On another topic, I realized something at this show.
Look at these pictures of early 60s Corvette dashboards:
'64 hardtop
'64 convertible
As I wandered around the show looking for other cars that bore some resemblance to this dashboard layout there were lots of cars with a "dual cockpit" type layout but nothing as clearly similar as the early 60s Corvettes.
I'm not saying the BMW designers had these Corvettes in mind when designing the Z3 interior (maybe they did, I don't know). At the end of the day there are only so many ways to lay out a dashboard. It's inevitable that some cars will look like others even if the designers were all kept in isolation.
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