The P-38 made it’s way into automobile designing seven years later in 1948. Harley Earl was an aircraft buff and his inspiration for the 1948 Cadillac came directly from the dual tailfins of the P-38 Lightning he first viewed in 1941. 'I'll take it', Elvis replied, and drove the Tbird home right then and there, sending someone later to collect his Cadillac. It was this out of the ordinary auto design that was largely responsible for the auto fin craze of the 1950’s. As I was showing him the breakaway steering wheel, he asked how much? The wire wheels caught his eye immediately. 'One Sunday, I left a brochure, and the next day he drove down in his Cadillac and asked to see the car, which was on the showroom floor. With power steering and brakes, automatic trans and a 390 cubic inch V8, the Tbird was too big and heavy for a sports car, but it was about the most glamorous set of wheels made in America circa 1962.īarrasso called into Graceland to tell Elvis about the amazing car. The car came with chrome wire wheels and a fiberglass tonneau cover with integral headrests that hid the rear seats so that it resembled a two-seater. Virgil Exner, Jr., learned about car design at a young age from his father. We are informed that Exner was (a)lready a dashing. Even so, Visioneer has a family scrapbook quality, replete with childhood photos and purple prose. A childhood friend of Elvis, Ernie Barrasso was working at a Memphis Ford dealership in the early ‘60s when a new, limited edition Thunderbird was delivered. (UPDATED ) Peter Grist stated that he tried to make this authorized biography of car designer Virgil Exner as unbiased as possible (p.
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