Style In Steel

North American muscle car expert Jim Bodanis takes us on a tour of his 1970 Chevelle SS LS 6 convertible. And one of the most sensational classics of the 1930’s is the Avions Voisin C-20, known as the Mylord Demi-Berlin. This one-of-a-kind automobile owes its unique design to the engineering genius of French aircraft designer, Gabriel Voisin.

Gordon Miller Buehrig was just another young designer at the thriving Auburn Automobile Company in Pennsylvania before the war, when he was tapped to design one of the top ten cars of all time: the 1936 Cord 810. It took 30 years for the echoes of the 1936 Cord 810 to be felt. The 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado was a tribute to its coffin-nosed predecessor with it’s similar front wheel drive approach to transportation.

The 1938 Delage was one of the most stylish, curvaceous and exotic cars ever built – all in the pursuit of a beautiful woman. Men may also have bought the 1970 Corvette Stingray to attract women, but this car’s hourglass figure also spoke to the male of the species. And the 1970 Roadrunner Superbird was created by Plymouth in an effort to win the heart of only one man: superstar stock car driver, Richard Petty.

This rare and outrageously expensive Rolls Royce had the chassis of a 1939 model, and the body of a 1947 ‘dream car’; ordered by a New York businessman, it’s sole reason for existence was to tempt beautiful high society women into its luxurious interior. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the working man’s 1947 Ford, owned by a successful small town real estate agent, reminds him of his youth and the girls he was able to attract with it back in the day!

America in the late 1960’s was crazy for muscle cars. Chrysler, Ford and Chevy duked it out in the car lots and on the NASCAR tracks… and so did fans. Meet three die-hard muscle car fanatics – tough guys get emotional! The Chevy ’69 Camaro SS vs the Ford 1970 Boss Mustang 302 vs the Chrysler 1970 Barracuda.