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07/08/2020 4:51 am
Who needs AutoCult? The Bizarre 1956 Pontiac Club de Mer from 2014.
Unless someone can point out serious flaws with Bizarre #B1016, I have no need to replace it. That is, of course, unless someone wants to give me big $$$ for this one.
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BTW, period photos show those slender whitewalls - a 1956 harbinger of things to come?
07/08/2020 6:49 am
It's not the first time Autocult produces a model previously done by others.
07/08/2020 7:35 am
I also am surprised that Autocult did this one. Unless maybe they know how few or many of the others are still out there. But still there are many more great show cars from that era. But still, this one is unique with that fin. Every collection should have a car with a tail-fin.
07/08/2020 7:40 am
But I know a stylist from that era. He said that Pontiac and Cadillac were right next door and some guys had lunch together. And secret ideas get around. Back then some guys took their drawings home at the end of the day. Can you imagine?
07/08/2020 7:57 am
And of course GM sometimes required styling ideas to be passed around to see if they were suitable for use by the GM different divisions, and sometimes they were required to share some key elements or "hard points" - for example all the '59 GM cars had to share the Buick front doors and build the rest of their sheet metal styling package around them.
Of course in later years the level of shared styling elements between GM brands got to the point where people rolled their eyes and dismissed them as badge-engineered clones, with too little real brand identity.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
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07/08/2020 9:48 am
For example the Alfa BAT-series. But then I bought them and believe they were better than the others
08/08/2020 7:04 am
I managed to get the BAT set too and they are brilliant.
Autominologist residing in the Robin Hood County
Nottinghamshire England UK