Palatial BUCKINGHAM

Here’s a car that most of you have never seen before and a car you’re unlikely to ever see again.

This one-off creation may look like something from the 1920s, but it was actually built in the ’80s - the result of one man’s vision to have the car that he wanted, not what the major auto manufacturers were trying to sell to him.

So what is it? Say hello to the ‘Buckingham’…

OLD MEETS NEW

If you know your automotive history, you’ll have heard of the ‘neo-classic’ automobile. A category that flourished in America in the 1970s and early ’80s, neo-classics took current model cars–usually a Ford or Mercury–and rebodied them in the style of the grand saloons, coupes and convertibles of the 1920s, with long bonnets, running boards, wire wheels and sumptuous interiors.

The roots of the neo-classic genre can actually be traced to 1964, when