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You don’t often see a classic Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” double-parked in front of line of city boutiques and restaurants, even in Beverly Hills. And it’s probably less likely that there’d be a ’73 Corvette in front of it, and a super-rare 1974 Baldwin-Motion Camaro next to the Vette.

But this wasn’t Beverly Hills. It was Mirdimad Boulevard in Tehran, Iran.

A year ago, automotive PR veteran Marty Schorr introduced me to the Tehran Café Racers group in Iran. It was the first international chapter of an informal car he established in Florida, the Sarasota Café Racers. The group is billed as “car guys who lunch,” and the lunch meetings bring together varied cars and owners.

I ended up writing about the Tehran group for both my own “Wheel People” e-newsletter and more extensively for The New York Times.

Schorr recently replayed the story of the Tehran Café Racers first anniversary luncheon on his Car Guy Chronicles blog.

(Photo by Keyvan Moradi)