Whenever you go to the annual bid-ness that forms so much of the
Monterey car experience, you know that you'll always find some extreme
stuff, from the standpoint of uncommonality, at the auction conducted
in Pebble Beach by Gooding & Company.
Here's an example. We didn't attempt to account all the veterans of the
Pebble Beach concours lawn that were on the block at Gooding in 2009,
but this zany creation brought that total to at least three.
Officially, this is the 1955 Ghia Streamline X, but it's better known
by its informal name, the Gilda, supposedly inspired by the title of
the 1946 film that starred Rita Hayworth.
This was one of several 1950s tag-team efforts between Chrysler styling
boss Virgil Exner and the coachworks folks at Ghia, led in this case by
Giovanni Savonuzzi. Despite the crazily wide body overhang, the Gilda
otherwise predicted the super-narrowness of today's straight-line
bullets in Top Fuel and at Bonneville.
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