“He who loves his car pushes his car,” and the same, apparently, goes for film stars. But what Sophia Loren discovered during a Gullwing breakdown was that it’s one of the only cars in the world that you can push and steer simultaneously – without the door getting in the way.
Both the star and the car have certain similarities: beguiling curves, an unruly temperament, and perhaps we can go so far as to say that the open doors of the 300SL are somewhat reminiscent of the raised eyebrows of Loren.
The photograph was taken during the ‘Rally del Cinema’. This one-off rally was organised in the 1950s by television mogul Ezio Radaelli, and involved top Italian movie stars at the start of the event. We rather suspect that the photograph is not quite true to life, though: we can’t really see Loren pushing her own car – can you?
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Text: J. Philip Rathgen(ClassicDriver)
Photo: Getty Images
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