weird classic cars

Story by David Finlay

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Classic cars that delight in being different©Tom Wood/RM Auctions

In every period of automotive history, a combination of fashion and current technology has led to cars built at around the same time looking roughly similar.

Generally, it’s possible to identify when a particular model was designed just by looking at it. That’s why people complain that “cars all look the same nowadays”, usually when referring to ones built after they had become set in their ways.

But it’s also true that there are always cars which completely buck current trends, or seem unremarkable at first but turn out to be radical in detail.

To celebrate the unconventional, here, in alphabetical order, are 25 of the many four-wheeled oddballs which have made the motoring world so interesting over the decades.