Looking at this it suddenly hits me: surely the Iso Rivolta must have been a Vignale design? Same themes in front. Quick google search; nope, Bertone. Surely some influence tho... Then of course there is the STudebaker Lark Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sorry, gentlemen, but this car looks like what a Brit friend would call "the dog's dinner"...IMHO. Too, too much going on, from the oversized headlights to slats slits n scoops on the side. Not for me.
My Dad bought this car in 1958 from Gaston Andrey in Framingham (I have his bank loan note), so it's back in MA again! I'm half tempted to drive up to see it (but for all the wintry weather these days....). Sweeeet!! A few pics attached - Dad with the car in 1958 shortly after he bought it. Then again (same pose) 51 years later, in 2009 at Tom Shaughnessy's shop (Mom and Dad drove the car to CA on their honeymoon in March 1959). The third pic was taken by a friend of Dad's sometime in the summer of 1959. I cropped out some of the ugly fore/back-grounds and cleaned up some other blemishes - but this is still my favorite shot of the car. Dad's ownership was chonicled in FCA's Prancing Horse #125, and mentioned again in Cavallino #194, where this was the cover car. gp [p.s. - if anyone out there has that old NY license plate and is willing to part with it, please PM me. Thx.] Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login