Tuesday 5 July 2011

Now You See It,

now you still sort of see it, it, being a 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas deluxe 'Ghost Car', built by General Motors and chemical company Rohm and Haas, it was the first transparent full-sized car to be made in America, billed as a vision of the future, it was made for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, where it became a sensation at General Motors' 'Highways and Horizons' pavilion; and it continues to cause a stir today, owned by the same family since 1980 the see through car is coming under the hammer, it has hardly been used with just 86 miles on the clock,

for the technical, it is a Series 26. 85 bhp, 222.7 cu. in. L-head six-cylinder engine, three-speed manual transmission, coil spring independent front suspension, live rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes, the guide price for the auction on July 16th. is between $275,000 and $475,000, when built the cost was estimated to have been $25,000, as a guide to how expensive it was in those days, using the consumer price index $25,000 1939 would be $392,000 in today's money!

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