Yes indeed! There was a wealthy Japanese family who lived at the end of the street, about a block away from us, when I was growing up. I remember seeing one of these cars, in exactly this color, parked in his driveway on occasion.
He had an Allard K3 and a Cooper race car too. The lines on it remind me of a couple of 1950s/1960s Lancias. I don't find the color offensive either ... it's prettier in person than it looks in a photograph. Godfrey On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > A 1954 Kaiser Darrin sports car. I photographed it at the Dream > Cruise in 2004 against a cluttered background. No choice. That's > where it was parked, and the owner was nowhere to be found. I finally > got around to cleaning the pics up a bit today. Only 435 of these > cars were built. I believe only two or three still exist. It was the > first fiberglass car ever made. The doors are pocket doors -- they > slide into the front fenders. The design was created by a fellow > named Darrin (last name), who lived in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, > it's flathead 2.4 liter engine generated a mere 90 horsepower. It was > no match for the 55 Corvettes, which premiered with around 200 > horsepower. But it was a very pretty car. This one,which is > completely original and beautifully restored, was parked on Woodward. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6966971&size=lg > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6966978 > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6966938 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
