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I stumbled onto this incredible machine by accident while browsing the net:
Created by a mechanical engineer named Norman E. Timbs way back in 1948, it graced cover of Motor Trend magazine in 1949.
It was built off around a Buick's "Super 8" motor making about 200hp. The car weighed about 2300lbs/1044kgs and as a result this car topped out at 120mph. Allegedly.
Mr. Timbs spent two and a half years building this; its body is entirely crafted out of aluminum by Emil Diedt. Cost him $8000. Don't laugh, that was big bucks back in the 40s.
A man named Jim Davis bought it in 1952 and he used it as his daily driver. He must have been crazy, rich or both. Then this happened:
The Streamliner was found somewhere in Nevada desert in 2002, looking in a sorry state.
It was bought at auction and restored by Dave Crouse at Custom Auto, Inc. in Loveland, Colorado for owners Gary & Diane Cerveny of Malibu, California. After its “complete and exacting” restoration, it debuted at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in a class reserved for Motor Trend Cover Cars.
So a happy ending, then.
Created by a mechanical engineer named Norman E. Timbs way back in 1948, it graced cover of Motor Trend magazine in 1949.
It was built off around a Buick's "Super 8" motor making about 200hp. The car weighed about 2300lbs/1044kgs and as a result this car topped out at 120mph. Allegedly.
Mr. Timbs spent two and a half years building this; its body is entirely crafted out of aluminum by Emil Diedt. Cost him $8000. Don't laugh, that was big bucks back in the 40s.
A man named Jim Davis bought it in 1952 and he used it as his daily driver. He must have been crazy, rich or both. Then this happened:
The Streamliner was found somewhere in Nevada desert in 2002, looking in a sorry state.
It was bought at auction and restored by Dave Crouse at Custom Auto, Inc. in Loveland, Colorado for owners Gary & Diane Cerveny of Malibu, California. After its “complete and exacting” restoration, it debuted at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in a class reserved for Motor Trend Cover Cars.
So a happy ending, then.
