Regarding Prelude's post on the red ones, that looks like it a cross between a chrome plated piggie bank and an industrial vacume cleaner with marital aids stuck all over it.
Look what they did to Sunfire once Bob sold the company.
Like moving production to China wasn't insulting enough...
I think that the weird aluminum strips open up to expose more controls. Maybe the Hari Kari discombobulator circuit resides there, who knows.

Uncle Festermo, good one!
