Yes, its presence stays with you. Now, as any artist would sigh and think, " I must create PAST THIS" and that is for today's designers to gaze and keep gazing upon Mr Exner's statement here, and expound anew
There's a funny Elvis story about the Blackhawk. They wanted to put Elvis on the waiting list for one of these, but Elvis wanted the prototype. He didn't want to wait. The guy told him, "But this is the only one! I have to drive it around and show it to people so they'll buy it." Elvis said something like, "Well, which do you think is going to sell more cars: you driving it around, or ME driving it around?" The rest is history. Elvis bought at least 4 of these, at $26,500+ each in the 70's.
@@codylontoc8065 and for a mere person-in-passing, whom I never gave any interest to, this anecdote and another I know of instilled me with a great amount of respect for this guy! He called that that shot PERFECTLY, letting the Marketing guy know in no uncertain term that size matters, and he could cover an entire WORLD with that prototype in tow, compared to.... who? I caught the ESQUIRE article, fell in love with (yes, i picked up quickly on the "DNA", but the Italians would work their magic on that) the car at first sight. Others followed the King-of-sorts. He shared my taste in quality panache.
@@nealbradleigh5069 While I won't say he was the best thing since sliced bread, I will give him credit for being one of the most recognized people on planet earth.
I can recall often seeing a hustler from Los Angeles by the name of Plookie driving a Stutz Blackhawk around Las Vegas in the late 1970's. I used to marvel at it as did many in those days. The Stutz Blackhawk and the Excalibur were the most uniquely designed cars of the 1970's in my opinion.
This is custom coach work at its best. I always loved these unique automobiles'. I can remember seeing a few here and there when I was growing up in South TX. Sure you had some who thought Excalibur 's where more regal, I didn't see it. I wish they could be made in limited no. 's and offered to the car buyers whom want some thing parked in his or her driveway which commands a level of respect that majority of the egg shaped sedans on the road now do not.
C'EST magnifique! American technologies handed over to Italian coach builders (and you can recognize and appreciate the European styling cues, we borrowed from your early carriage builders)!
Greetings from, well, here! The designer, Mr Exner wanted to incorporate older mixtures of line and curve (notice the wide, taunt vertical line in the central B pillar (A pillar, on a sign view of car would be your frame that holds the front windshield, and the B pillar is the large frame from where the door window glass ends, and stretches to the rear window). Think of older carriages and the curvature in the Landau metalwork, with wheel mud guards to keep road material off of the body of cart, and passengers.
I have seen one at a car show in NYC. I've been told that Frank Sinatra and Evis Presley had one. Truthfully, it's kind of out of it's date. I can recognize the Rivera glass and top. It belongs in a museum.
I've never liked the 'cool' cars but this ones an exception. For so eone who likes trucks and jeeps I love the stutz b h because it has a bentleys grill and a triumph stage headlights and curves.
Probably a similar two-door coupe with an aftermarket styling kit. One custom designer (you'll have to research) ushered in the ROLLS knock-off look, offering chrome add-on pieces to enhance Cadillac Eldorado and Lincoln Mark models models.
RIVIERA models began as GM showcars, finally getting their own unique body form in 1963. In 1966, it joined other GM siblings from OLDSMOBILE and CADILLAC in the long forecheck, short rear deck interation"retro" models
I could be wrong, but I dont think that is a 1973. it has 2 exhausts coming out of the front side fenders, and the taillights are for sure not from 1973. maybe newer tailers were installed? either way, very sexy car, in great shape !
GM used its 1966 ELDORADO to usher in a retro styling theme, followed Lincoln's MARK III coupe, complete with rear passenger opera windows, and the race was on
Somebody turned that poor little Grand Prix into a parade float. But it's amazing how many prominent people coveted these things. If I were that famous, I'd be riding around in a customized black van with no clear windows; something that could be mistaken for a delivery vehicle.
they seemed to have been bought mostly by people with high incomes and low intelligence - mostly celebrities with a taste for gaudy ostentation. the Homer actually looks better than this monstrosity.
I'm with you jabbejokker. This cars looks like a 1973 Pontiac Catilina that someone tried to make look like a 1930's era Cord. Michael Keaton's character in Night Shift who was an idiot had one of these. When I saw that movie I thought it was just some 70's era GM that had been pimped out with a bunch of garish bling. Was surprised when I figured out it was a made like that and that celebrities actually spen A LOT of money for!!!!!
Cars of the 1970s were beautiful. That stereo system is clearly a new after-market unit. That is a DIN shape compact disc player with aux input and digital read out. There was no such thing in the 1970s. Plus those speakers mounted in the rear C-piller are sold at Kragen/Checkers auto today. That is not original from the factory. The rest of the car interior looks fine.
Sorry guys, but this ranks right up there with the homeliest pimpmobiles I've ever seen! I find it as a gross insult to the original Stutz automobile. Oh well, each to his own.
