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Cadillac’s road to ‘St. Moritz’

General Motors’ fabulous show cars of the 1950s are generally well known in the hobby: the GM Le Sabre and , the Buick , the Corvette and the Olds s, to name just a few. These “dream cars” were specially built, often of fiberglass to ease their hand-built construction, with just one or maybe a few built by GM’s Design Studio. Although extremely rare and often lost to the crusher, these show cars are still remembered by many today because they were unique, they were flashy, they were heavily advertised promotional tools and they looked like nothing else on the road.

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