Strange comments about your car

[graphic66]

I pulled into a job today in my DD, not my 230SL, and a friend came over and asked,"Wheres your Nazi Corvette". Never thought of it that way. Any body else have others?

[TheEngineer]

Actually, by the time the Pagoda was conceived, the nazi time was long over and a Frenchman came up with the shape. It took the taste & flair of a gallic mind to produce the classic appearance of that model. But the Volkswagen was a nazi creation for sure: They were sold for 1000 mark, had 25 HP and 4 on the floor, not synchronized. It was not unusual to see an SS officer driving one. During the war the entire production was for the war effort and no Volkswagens were sold to civilians. There was also a version called Der Kubelwagen: That model was sold in the US with a plastic body, but originally the body was sheet metal. How about for a real nazi corvette: A Kubelwagen with a porsche engine and the iron cross painted on the hood?


'69 280SL,Signal Red,Automatic,retired engineer, West-Seattle,WA

[J. Huber]

A Nazi Corvette? I am really offended! How dare he call my car a Corvette... [:0]

Sounds like he has some personal issues to work out. Like education. A lot of people who have no clue about Germany's rich culture and influence on Western civilization say similarly stupid things...

Back to the question: my Dad used to call my car the "Chanting Car." Never knew why until I discovered this was what a Depression -- WWII era idea of "courting your girl" in style if you were lucky enough to borrow your Father's car...





James
63 230SL

[hauser]

I haven't had this happen to me personally but did hear something similar on the HBO series Entourage.  Martin Landau's character referred to Ari Gold's BMW 750 as a "Nazi Sled"



1969 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.

[waqas]

Someone once called my 111 coupe a 'panzerwagon'... and that has since become my nickname for it. (built like a tank, so why not?)

It's sad how we've diluted the use of the word 'nazi'...

WAQAS in Austin, Texas

[paulr]

I was working with a well known swearing chef and we had to drive from his house into the west end, I got into my car and he said..

" I'm not getting into that you F*****G nazi !!"


paulr
lovely 1970 280 SL

[Jonny B]

Pretty sad that the Nazi reference still gets applied to cars and events and items that are way past that time in history. I guess we have to keep working to dispell this reference.

Jonny B
1967 250SL Auto

[jameshoward]

Paulr

This wouldn't be the same 'swearing chef' who's famous for cutting about in a 'Mussolini mobile,' would it?

JH