Car and Driver Launches 10Best Readers' Contest
15 September 2000
Car and Driver Launches 10Best Readers' ContestMagazine Seeks Ugliest Cars, Stuck Sport Utes and Other Wacky Car Stories ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 15 Ever see a twin-engine Chevette, a grass-covered Jaguar, or Ferrari hearse? If you have, Car and Driver magazine would love to see the photos. Car and Driver has launched its 10Best Readers' Contest. The magazine is seeking reader photos or stories in six unique categories -- Frankenstein Cars, Stuck Sport Utility Vehicles, Bumper Stickers, Running-Out-of-Gas Stories, Parking-with-a-Date Stories and Dumb Things You've Seen Drivers Do While Driving. Category descriptions and requirements are: * 10Best Frankenstein Cars -- We're talking about photos of hairy cars, horned cars, insane conversions, psychotic customs, dork cars. Ugly, awful stuff, anything goes. * 10Best Stuck Sport Utility Vehicles -- A lot of sport ute owners think their big, fat four-wheelers make them impervious to spin-outs, to getting stuck in the mud, to getting upside down. Send us a photo of a sport ute (or any truck) in dire straits, in trouble, stuck, upside down, or otherwise out of commission. * 10Best Bumper Stickers -- What's new in the semi-personalized realm of free speech? Send photos. * 10Best Running-Out-of-Gas Stories -- Tell us about an experience involving running out of gas. Your story should be no more than two typed pages in length, double-spaced. * 10Best Parking-with-a-Date Stories -- Remember when teenagers "made out" in parked cars? This should ring a bell with our more mature readers. Stories should be no longer than two typewritten pages, double-spaced. * 10Best Dumb Things You've Seen Drivers Do While They're Driving -- You tell us in a couple of paragraphs the dumbest, funniest, or weirdest things you've seen drivers doing behind the wheel, and we will dramatize them by photo or illustration. Entries will be judged by Car and Driver staffers. The criteria? Photos or stories describing the weirdest, wackiest, most surreal or supernatural vehicles are game. Winning entries will be published in Car and Driver's January 2001 10Best issue and posted on the Car and Driver Web site, http://www.caranddriver.com . Winners also will receive $50 and a Car and Driver hooded sweatshirt. Unlike Car and Driver's traditional 10Best Awards, which annually ranks the 10 best models, the 10Best Readers' Contest takes an irreverent look at the "best of the worst" in the automotive galaxy. "At Car and Driver, we test and review some of the best cars out there," says Car and Driver Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere. "Now we get to turn the tables, and review the 'best of the worst' cars or auto-related stories." Entries can be submitted online at cd10best@aol.com , or by mailing them to Car and Driver 10Best Contest, (insert name of category), 2002 Hogback Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Photographs should be sent by regular mail, and must include a name and address on the back corner of the picture that does not show through to the front side of the photo. Entries must be received by Oct. 1, 2000. Car