My eyes! My eyes!!

what in the name of WTF? is that!

Oh lordy thats nasty :)

Excalibur. Based on the 1927 Mercedes SS. If it is a real one, the price=20 is cheap.

3 kinds of chassis were employed: Mercedes, Studebaker Avanti and Rolls- Royes. The latter was only used on a handfull of cars for the RR-quality=20 did not stand up to the wishes of the factory in Milwauchee (Wisconsin).

Excalibur has its followers and buyers among worlds nobility. Rolls=20 Royce and the like were cheap compared to Excaliburs. I think they went=20 belly up but restarted un Camelot Cars or something like that.

Tom De Moor

Saw one being used as a wedding car in Italy. It's as bad in the flesh as in the photo. Wheels are just wrong (too small), and a lot of it looks like it was lifted from a contemporary run-of-the-mill saloon. Which it probably was...

cheers, clive

It really is disgusting, isn't it? An Excalibur Series III roadster, a scary thought because it hints that there were at least two others made, and possibly hundreds. A glass fibre replica of a Mercedes SS built by someone who appeared to have no idea of what a Mercedes SS was. It was made in Milwaukee, USA. So that probably explains a lot.

The aristocracy has always been noted for its collective lack of taste. Chavs with tiaras.

Ugly as sin, but I could do something with it to improve the look. Colour would be a start, white cars are awful to get looking right. Then=20 wheels. Oh and lose the church organ off the front.

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If it's an Excalibur then there is not a milligram polyester/glasfiber in it. While be somewhat without taste or -better said- not any more to modern liking, the car is completely handmade as per tradition and to standards Rolls Royce nor Aston Martin can't afford anymore.

The car would improve a lot -to the eye- if the colorsheme was more conventional, less hookerlike. But then again: if that paintjob had to be done cfr original specifications, one would look at a bill of around

15000 UKP if it was a "cheap color" (meaning a color which needs "only" 6-10 layers), expensif colors (fe deep bottle like green or deep black) require as much as 30 layers.

Tom De Moor

With that exception that when nobility buys a very expensif car, they keep it for decades and -if it is ever sold- get their money back, often with a substancial profit.

You seem not to grasp that there is a differance between taste and quality. Most of the times tasteless implies lack of quality, for the Excaliburs it doesn't.

Even with styling not to everybodies liking Excaliburs -as all super- expensif handcrafted cars- are made for eternity.

Your laughing at the "collective lack of taste" strikes as odd: I was - obliged by business affaires- invited at a rather important horse race some years ago in England. (I like horses: in Belgium we eat them). There were lots of bizar heads there, most as ugly as sin, some -I quess- a burden to wear on those tiny necks. However the importance of the "head"-parade seemed on par with the horse race. They were as much photografed (or more) than the horses.

Tom De Moor

Ugly? Are y'all looking at the same image as I am?