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Car and Driver Launches 10Best Readers' Contest

15 September 2000

Car and Driver Launches 10Best Readers' Contest

  Magazine 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.
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