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11 hours ago, Eric said:

Look! An old Cadillac prototype that was designed to harvest and process pedestrians! It was aptly named Valkyrie.

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Actually, a show car based on a Cadillac. Not affiliated with them. Designer of the Studebaker Hawk, too.

Last sold for $395,000.00

,https://classiccars.com/listings/view/1026842/1955-cadillac-die-valkyrie-for-sale-in-saint-louis-missouri-63146

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5 hours ago, BamaBud said:

Actually, a show car based on a Cadillac. Not affiliated with them. Designer of the Studebaker Hawk, too.

Last sold for $395,000.00

,https://classiccars.com/listings/view/1026842/1955-cadillac-die-valkyrie-for-sale-in-saint-louis-missouri-63146

My first comment that I had to delete, was that I was a fan of the Studebaker Hawk series, but not this.  then I read it was a Cadillac concept.

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5 hours ago, BamaBud said:

Actually, a show car based on a Cadillac. Not affiliated with them. Designer of the Studebaker Hawk, too.

Last sold for $395,000.00

,https://classiccars.com/listings/view/1026842/1955-cadillac-die-valkyrie-for-sale-in-saint-louis-missouri-63146

Raymond Lowey designed the beautiful 1953 Studebaker and the Studebaker Avanti but it was Brooks Stevens who modified the 1953 model and made the Studebaker silver Hawk and Golden Hawk which were not as nice looking as the Lowey creations. and this show car. designed by Brooks Stevens, is downright ugly. It's the Edsel that never was.

Brooks stevens did design some decent looking vehicles however. The 1949 Harley Davidson FL hydra-glide, The Jeep Wagoneer, and the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.

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10 hours ago, BamaBud said:

Actually, a show car based on a Cadillac. Not affiliated with them. Designer of the Studebaker Hawk, too.

Last sold for $395,000.00

,https://classiccars.com/listings/view/1026842/1955-cadillac-die-valkyrie-for-sale-in-saint-louis-missouri-63146

Thought that had a touch of 1950s Studebaker.
 

One of the famous hot rod tricks involved an engine swap to create the Studillac. One was mentioned in a James Bond tale. 

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I've always liked Jaguars. I really liked the XK-120 through XK-150 Roadsters but I really like the XKE.s and it amazes me when I think back at how many of them were on the road where I lived in Southern Cal9iforna back in the mid-sixties when I was in high school and how they are considered somewhat rare today.

The XKE's were pretty fast and lightweight with the Overhead cam six but more power is better and eventually they put a V-12 in the XKE but they also lengthened the wheelbase and increased the weight. Jay Leno has a V-12 XKE that someone shortened and lightened and boosted the horsepower of the V-12 and created almost the Perfect V-12 XKE.  The only thing that would have made it perfect would be if it were British Racing Green instead of red.

 

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