for sale at Pebble Beach this year. http://www.mecumauction.com/auction...ium=email&utm_campaign=CA0810_072910_Concepts
ChopTop, WOW! Thanks for the update here! Nice restoration. Last tie I saw this car, it was in sad shape. But its multi-faceted AND colorful history mean it DESERVES attention from anybody who loves cars and car history! Thanks again for sharing the info!
1956 concept (which looks like a Packard BTW) with a 440 inch motor . . . a bored and stroked 392 I guess???
When you go to the link for the auction, even the few photos there reveal that the car STILL requires restoration; they have just carefully chosen angles to show the car but for instance there is still a hunk of paint off the right door. No, the car is not a Hemi car. It has a Plymouth poly under the hood. The styling on this concept has ALWAYS held it back. Though Virgil Exner was involved, so were several other stylists and the car very significantly looks like many concepts that had been on the drawing boards and in small clays at Ford 3-4 years earlier. This car is an albatross on the auction scene. One of these days its owner will get tired of paying consignment fees and dump it and someone will invest $200,000 into a restoration and maybe THEN it will actually become a truly spectacular show car once again. For now it just continues to be an unrestored curiosity.
Here's some vintage video footage of the '56 Plainsman: ... and some pics that I (& @StillOutThere) posted over on the ForwardLook.net forum: ... and lastly, a pic of it (with warts exposed) at the 2010 Pebble Beach Mecum Auction: image by @Tom davison
It has been documented that the Plainsman was shipped to Australia in the 60's with its owner who worked for Chrysler. Because of Australian registration regulations of the time it was converted to RHD When it was returned to America several years ago it was converted back to LHD It would be interesting to see if there are photos of it during its time in Australia
yer not far off. I love me a wagon, the funkier the better. Italian design, american drive train is my fave combo
$37.50 I'd guess... History or not, that things nasty! And I thought I saw the giant hat in the distance at PB