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Oh, that is SO retro badass!

Everything they build now is generic ‘happy little ovoid’ crap.

Truth be told, I would *love* to have a circa mid-50’s hearse.

[it’s very practical...I could haul my dogs around in it]

48 posted on 04/22/2012 8:07:33 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)

That was Bill Mitchell's last hurrah, and it was controversial at the time. It's been growing increasingly popular with the custom crowd, though, because the lines really are extremely nice. Dropping it and filling out the wheelwells brings out the beauty of it.

Mitchell was head of Art & Color at GM, and was quite the controversial one himself, and something of a partier and a rake. He was also responsible for the original Stingray, as well as this, which is gorgeous dead stock:

http://www.streetsideclassics.com/showcargallery.php?stock=683&location=atl&fullname=1966%20Oldsmobile%20%20Toronado