For years this titanic rust bucket has been parked around the corner from where I live, in West Town.
You'd think I'd get used to it, but I always crack up when I see it, because it's parked in front of the neatest little pin of a condo building, and I can imagine the neighbors cursing and plotting and lobbying the alderman, whose hands are tied on this one.
I'm no snob, myself. I'm the proud owner of a dog-eared 1964 International Harvester Scout. One afternoon a couple of years ago, the owner of this Edmond Fitzgerald-on-wheels and I happened to be at the local Marathon, each pumping good gas after bad. I gave him a little nod and a brotherly grin.
His contemptuous return stare said, "As if."
This fellow must think he has the ugliest rig in Chicago.
And maybe he does. But this is a big town, and that's a proud title. Let's make him earn it.
Let's have a contest, for Ugliest Car in Chicago. In the comments below, post a link to a photo of your favorite Chicago or suburban neighborhood beast, and we'll put it up for a democratic HuffPo Chicago vote.
The winner gets the intrinsic satisfaction of knowing he or she has identified--or, even owns--the very Ugliest Car in Chicago.
And the poor fastidious condo owners will get to say, "You think this is ugly . . .."
For more ugly cars in and around Chicagoland check out my blog CrazyCar.com.
Larry
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On further examination the vehicle pictured is a Chevy Crew Cab pickup body mounted on a medium duty chassis. The only thing to make it cooler would be if it were Detroit Diesel burning home brew bio-diesel.
As a self appointed expert in these things I would say it is the ugliest vehicle currently being driven on the pockmarked roads of our town. I have nothing to compete with it.
Larry
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p.s. where might it live I would like to capture its image and add it to my collection