GTP Cool Wall: 1967 Mohs Ostentatienne Opera Sedan

[Roger the Horse]

It's like a terrifying cross between a Silver Cloud, a Wagoneer, and a Volkswagen Type 3.

 

[-Fred-]

"Describe the state of Texas with one picture"

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

God no. Uncool.

 

[Stotty]

What the....

It's so bad I'm almost tempted to vote SZ

 

[Legro]

Okay, I don't even know what to think. The rear end looks a little bit like Chrysler Crossfire's, I can easily imagine the front on something made by Mitsuoka, and the best part, or very likely the only not terrible looking thing in the entire thing as the rest looks terrible, which is the interior seems to be taken from an Italian speedboat.

I would say that it's very close to the 60s equivalent of a certain Arabian supercar, but that isn't really the case because as far as I know they never made any hilariously over-optimistic claims about it's performance and they actually made one of these. Perhaps I could say that it's the 60s Yeouabian Puma...

Either way, it's ridiculously uncool.

 

[MatskiMonk]

A very specific, rather well-known type of owner;

I have no idea who that is

 

[Niku Driver HC]

I have no idea who that is

Well, you're probably not the only one who doesn't know, given that only Ken liked my post.
The man in question is Barry Weiss; former storage auction hunter and collector of many different and wacky things, who had a few shows to his own credit on the A&E channel. "Storage Wars" was one of his most popular appearances, which was then followed by his own themed shows like "Barry'd Treasure" and so on...

The key part behind me mentioning Mr. Weiss is that he collects a metric ton of cars. And many of them are wacky, one-off custom vehicles, some of which would feel right at home next to the Mohs. And since I don't exactly know the extent of his collection, it could very well be possible that Mr. Weiss actually owns a Mohs...

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Seriously Uncool! The car looks like it was designed by some mad scientist and his hunchback assistant. I bet someone was saying "It's ALIVE" when this thing was finished.

 

[Tornado]

I'd actually heard about this one before. The bit that sticks out the most is that it looks like a full size car from the 1960s, but then you see the photo with the guy inside it and you realize that it is massive even by those standards.

 

[TheCracker]

1967...

This is what luxury motoring looked like in '67:

Even if the Ostentatienne wasn't so badly proportioned, it would still look 15 years out of date. SU.

 

[LM7325]

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock my one door...

 

[Ettick]

What is up with the cool wall lately? Did we already poll all the cool or at least reasonably meh cars already?

 

[MoLiEG]

Beyond horrible.

SU.

 

[Ken]

What is up with the cool wall lately? Did we already poll all the cool or at least reasonably meh cars already?

I knew this car would do horribly bad. I don't like it. But with all the flame wars and such at the time I nominated this, I wanted to inject a little humour into the veins.

 

[Pupik]

On the face of it, this is the ancestral Stutz-ification of the Youabian Puma. Except instead of being completely tasteless, he went full Salvador Dali and called it a decade. And even if there was a sales network, it would have to be spearheaded by the love child of Frank Zappa and Mary Ann Faithfull. He's clearly trolling all of us with this, and why it's interesting.

I so want to call this cool, but calling this "meh" just seems wrong, because you can't look at it for more than five seconds without muttering things to yourself. And it's so ridiculous that it must turn heads. But then you have to explain this was someone else's fever dream, not yours. Or maybe Sammy Jenks'...I forget.

Uncool, but so ridiculous and weird that it falls off the side of the chart, not down it.

 

[synchromesh]

Nowadays this is a very rare an unique classic car, and I'd think it's pretty cool if I saw it rolling down the street. Voted SZ

 

[axletramp]

You know those click bait links about some guy in Ghana who has built his own supercar out of bicycle parts, plywood and old oil cans? They're generally better designed than this. SU, until...

...I saw the interior! That is without doubt the best velour and 60's sci-fi mashup I've ever seen.

I'm going with cool, just because it bloody well is!