The Ice Princess (XF58) – Richard Fletcher
The Ice Princess is for sale at auction right now !
First let's talk about Richard Fletcher
After having traveled around a lot in his youth, Fletcher came to Phoenix in February 1979 where he became a manufacturer of special cars for the cinema and actors. He built things like the longest Ferrari F40 World, the largest convertible in the world (with a land size of volleyball within), and a car Eiffel Tower 12 meters high.
He built cars from scratch and amends other. It makes a lot of sculpting with foam and merging together different pieces of cars. These buildings take one to six months of work. From 1999 to 2006, he built eight cars. Three of the cars, Pirate Surfmobile , The Ice Princess et Gothic Coach, are on display today at the Museum Auto Scottsdale Phoenix.
Richard Fletcher is a clone of George Barris kind in the automotive world !
But back to The Ice Princess. This is not a custom of the early sixties, or a dream car fifties, but a car made in the late 1980's from a Studebaker 1950 since.
Studebaker 1950 Since 2 doors
Fletcher said he did with his Ice Princess a car mid way of the Studebaker streamlined style and futuristic aerospace and vision of some dream cars of the 1950's as Buick Lesabre.
In a first version, the car will be named The Vampiremobile to become in 2005 The Ice Princess.
It measures 6,09 m, the engine is a V8 Cadillac 500 cid 8,3 liters. Max speed 225 km/h.
The essential features are the front train 4 wheels, the 4 tapered headlights, the Imperial fins overcoming nozzles reactors in the style of the early sixties Cadillac and of course the bubble top in the minds of the Lincoln Futura near two F4 Phantom twin cockpit. The interior very Jet Age is completely in the spirit of the show of customs from the early sixties with golden hues.
Merci's blog from the aforesaid regarding the.
F4 Phantom
The story does not say what happened to the statue on the front cover which he seems disappeared on other pictures, unless it is otherwise !
the 22 January 2018, the 1950 Studebaker “Ice Princess” is to auction in Scottsdale, in Arizona. For the & rsquo; opportunity, new outdoor photos were published on the websites that tell sale.
Few & rsquo; information is present, just that & rsquo; it is blue and that & rsquo; it has an automatic transmission !
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Others have attempted to change a Studebaker Sedan ...
Another car Richard Fletcher, Cadillac Eldorado Art Car is present on SixMania !
