Brooks Stevens' Excalibur 35X

[scott.rodgers]

I just saw this picture while looking through the Hemmings Blog archive. It looks like Brooks Stevens did a rendering of a "neo-classic" revival Bugatti. If you look closely, the car has a 64 Daytona frame, just like the first generation production Excaliburs:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/02/03/brooks-stevenss-other-neoclassic-the-excalibur-35x/

[DEEPNHOCK]

Neat historical tidbit...

[JBOYLE]

I'd take a Studebaker engine "Bugatti" any day over the VW engine most of the "replicas" (in the loosest sense of the word) use.

[skyway]

Interesting! You know those VW Buggatti's can still be found. It would be a creative project but????

[studegary]

I just saw this picture while looking through the Hemmings Blog archive. It looks like Brooke Stevens did a rendering of a "neo-classic" revival Bugatti. If you look closely, the car has a 64 Daytona frame, just like the first generation production Excaliburs:

Please edit your post and its title. Brooke is a female name. The car designer was Brooks Stevens.

[scott.rodgers]

Gary,

Do'h - late night at work last night! Change made.

[Xcalibur]

Stevens built a few of these (Opel engines, btw) and sold the rights or partnered, at least initially (depending on whom is telling the story), with a Frenchman who almost immediately went bankrupted. If you look at detail pix of the 35--should you find them--it appears very much like a rebodied Series 1 X of the era.