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Fiat Chrysler's 2020 50th Anniversary Dodge SRT Hellcat
Wide Body Daytona pays Homage to those legendary NASCAR Superbirds. (Image
source: caranddriver.com)
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Otay Kiddoes', it's been a few years now
since I've poonded' out an Oh, So clever No Fenders tome revolvin' round Ye
Easter Bunny. Which I originally thought the last one centered round the iconic
hues of Ye celebrated John Player Special theme livery, Y'all know black 'n
gold...
Hence this momentary Day Trip down Ye
Wabbithole concerning Loti's and Messer Bond naturally caused me to include
this year an article from Car & Driver revolving around the forthcoming No
Time to Die movie, reportedly coming to your Big Screen movie Theatre this
April, but I'm guessin' we'll have to wait awhile now, since the COVID 19
Pandemic's currently sweeping thou Globe. So I'd guess it'll be a Summer
release at earliest, Eh?
As the article centers round Bond, James Bond
most iconic vehicle, the classic Aston Martin DB5, for which apparently eight
replicas were crafted for the film, in which the author John Pearly Huffman got
behind the wheel of said DB5 "Continuation" Coupe and took one for a
Spin.
Another vehicle for which is as Astronomically
challenging for many of us as a DB5, and definitely Won't fit in Ye Easter
Basket, albeit will most certainly make Mincemeat outta that green grass
filling Thee bottom of the basket with its paltry 717 Horsepower, Yikes!
Although Y'all
will most definitely wanna pack some more grass filling in Dem' Baskets to keep
your Cadbury Eggs from getting Mushed when makin' those Jack Rabbit starts from
Stoplight-to-Stoplight; Hya!
As the latest in Dodge's ostentatious High
Horsepower Hellcat V-8's is the recently released 2020Dodge SRT Hellcat Wide
Body Daytona!
As apparently the fine Folks at Dodge, or is
it Fiat Chrysler? Have stolen a page outta the now somewhat forgotten GM
Castoff Pontiac. Who once ran a marketing campaign round Wider's Better! With its
Wide Track Pontiac Grand Prix, Aye Karumba!
Yet Good Luck finding one of these very
elusive limited edition DayToner's, for which Dodge is only producing 501
examples, just like the original production run was in 1969 to meet NASCAR's
Homologation rules. With the Car & Driver article, like many stories I
listen to was via my NFB Newsline for The Blind telephone service, which I
think said the lowest example they found was selling for just north of $113,000
Greenbacks!
While it's certainly Not the Easter Bunny's
Fault! But apparently one Hapless SRT Hellcat Daytona Owner's laid a Rotten
Egg! And reportedly only had two-thirds the mileage on his brand new Dodge
Daytona for which the vehicle pays Homage to a legendous Roundy-Round Race...
And although Thars' Ah-plenty available on
eBay, ranging from $29.99 to $99.99, I couldn't Discern what types 'o vehicles
are utilized for the just released Hot Wheels Led Zeppelin Set of 5 Collector's
edition, which Arse-sumedly thoust makers 'o miniature vehicles is pullin' upon
our Heartstrings regarding Classic Rock legends, Righto?
Or may be the
remaining members of Zeppelin simply wanted to Cash In? Or have some extra
Dinero in Thar Bank Accounts in case the just concluded Stairway to Heaven song's
lawsuit went South?
As I never could find out what vehicles are
used in the aforementioned Led Zeppelin Hot Wheels set, but did stumble across
an article alleging that the Band's legendous' Drummer John Bonham was an avid
Car Collector.
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| Hopefully I've Nabbed the correct image of 'Ol slowhand's One-off custom SP-12 EC Ferrari. (Image source: hotcars.com) |
Naturally this Led Zeppelin and John Bonham
conjecture got me Ah-Thinkin' of British Rockers. And I immediately thought of
'Ol Slowhand', aka EC' or formally known as Eric Clapton, who I've known is a
Mega Scuderia Ferrari Fanatic, and quite Chummy with 'Ol Uncle Bernaughty. When
he was seen on Thy Telie' Schlepping round Grands Prix Grids with Messer
Bernard Charles Ecclestone!
Which made me wonder if I could unearth any
Easter Nuggets regarding his Car Collection? for which I found an interesting, somewhat
lengthy article chronicling 20 of his gems, including the aforementioned $4.7m
SP12-EC!
And although
certainly not his biggest Hit Song, I'll throw in the following tune since it
sez' something 'bout '57 Chevy's. did Yuhs catch It?
Whilst I'll leave
Y'all with another of my Hit Renditions 'O Easter lore, which also revolves
round various legendous' rockers as Thee Sarge', nee Kenny Sargent of Speed
Freaks Fame would say...
Alas, after having Lucy', my trusty 'Ol
Screen Reading lass' read me my first two No Fenders Rockers 'N Cars tomes to Mwah,
I realized I've left out the somewhat lesser known member of that Texas Crunch'
Rock trio ZZ Top. Ironically the only member not sporting one of those famous
"Hair Pieces," nee Beards!
although it'd probably be detrimental to
playing his Drum Kit, since I do know that Wayback in 1993, Thar Drummer Frank
Beard contested the 24 Hours of Daytona aboard one of those ubiquitous Porsche
911 Panzerwagons, How-How-How!