Facts only wanted for Classic high-speed saloons

Thank you, Monsignor McDonald, for unearthing the above. Now, if i can only find someone speaking fluent Norwegian. The short answer is that both the above one-off Bentley speed models are bodied by VanVooren.

The Eyston Chrysler speed saloon was no raving beauty, but as the photos in the brief March/April, 1971 Special Interest Autos showed, vastly more attractive than the frumpy illustration from our Norse friends suggests. Be interesting to know where the car is now, who owns it, as in '71, it was with an appreciative fellow in NJ, tho' with only one carburetor and conventional manifold, maybe for the same reason so many 1941-42 Buicks lost their "Compound Carburetion." Perhaps the present owner's in the CCCA?

Can't help with specs, but here's another image of the '37 Chrysler/Eyston Super Power Saloon.

Looks alot better from this angle, from a small blurb in a 1937 or '38 MoToR.

I'd get in touch with the folks at Beaulieu or another Brit archive for more info.

TG

Thank you, gentlemen. Will have to check the photo of the car in the '71 March/April SIA, as it was a light/gray silver in the recent b & w photo, and don't recall it looking as fastbacky as the above. Wonder where it is now, who owns it? It was with a collector, in good shape, in NJ 42 years ago, so must be in someone's garage.

Meanwhile, with all the fawning over ridiculous never-neverland versions of monstrous Cad V-16 firetrucks never built in the day, it's a wonder someone doesn't faithfully recreate automobiles like the ill-fated '39 Bentley Corniche, or make some appreciative tributes to the above Eyston Chrysler speed saloon. The top Embiricos Bentley was duplicated in recent years, faithfully.

Obviously, we're all about preservation. But when none or only one exists, where's the harm? At 'tis, we've people fawning, as mentioned, over wood-veneered otherwise off-the-peg hohum '40s Chryslers.

There are soooo many wonderful full Classic cars ---not outsized trucks---but automobiles that have fallen from the radar. Can't recall the last time we saw a Riley, for example.

Ask and ye shall receive, West. Here's the rear view from our friends at Coachbuilt.com, in the Carlton Carriage (UK) section.

I saved the little MoToR blurb 'cause I thought the Super Power Saloon was a really sleek design, worthy of future research. I wonder how they could have got it so wrong in the rendering that Rob M found? (Hi Rob).

TG

While I couldn't care less if the Bentley Corniche prototype by VanVooren is ever reproduced (maybe it would look better without that hideous two-tone treatment), I'd love to see the Chrysler Super Power in my garage asap. We once had a PII Rolls-Royce sport saloon by Carlton, and it was quite striking, too... although in a early 1930s way as compared to the Super Power's late '30s design.