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SS
Automobiles Inc. again premieres a new entry into the international
automotive scene. This new car, the Excalibur 57 designed by Brooks Stevens,
closely resembles an additional extremely famous and popular sports car of
the late twenties. For the connoisseur and the automotive enthusiast the
radiator design will be immediately suggestive of the famous Bugatti Marque;
the fabulously engineered sports car of Le Patron, Ettore Bugatti, which, in
the hands of famous drivers like Rene Dreyfus, Nuvolari, Chiron and Madame
Junek, battled with the Mercedes SSK and other famous cars of the period on
the road circuits of Europe.
The designer has again
taken a cross section of attractive features of many Bugatti models and
homogenized them into one pleasing two-seater, cycle tendered sports car
with the famous boat tail rear end. This car is pointed primarily toward the
European market place and, therefore, purposely uses a shorter wheel base
chassis, different tread, and is in fact a smaller automobile than the
current Excalibur SS. It is powered by the modified Opel Commodore engine
with Conrero of Turin tuning and chassis engineering by Guy Storr of Monaco.
The bodies will be built by Michelotti of Turin.
This exciting new
nostalgic addition to the SS Automobiles Inc. line of cars will be premiered
at the New York show for evaluation of possible marketing in the United
States. Again SS Automobiles Incorporated reflects with modern, safe, high
performance components, the elegance and nostalgia of a period in automotive
design history perhaps never to be surpassed by the racing stock car sedans
of Daytona or the whistling turbine cars of Indianapolis.
Ken Purdy's famous
reference in his book "KINGS OF THE ROAD" to a typical Bon Vivant hurtling
down the paved roadway to the Cote d'Azur at over 100 miles per hour, with
an elegant blond lady at his side, remembers an era of sports touring that
can be relieved today by those of us old enough to remember. Now two
nostalgic exhaust notes will ring out for those dedicated sports car lovers
around the world. |