Love the Excalibur,,always wanted one,,wayyyyy out of my price range,,hi Pamela hope you're doing well,,great car and video,,later gater, Glen

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Gee, Glen, doesn't your 10% management fee from the band and repping Don's paintings bring in enough to buy an Ex??? Maybe you will have to force Little Glen to get a job!!! Thanks for dropping by, Numero Uno!!! Check out Glen's GREAT channel, Model Cars With Glen: www.youtube.com/@modelcarswithglen./videos

Snazzy!

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Brook's creation started a new automotive segment which came to be known as the neo classic. It still turns heads today, even at a street rod/hot rod show!!!!

Brookfield's finest! (Brookfield was in the western part of Milwaukee.). You're absolutely right about them being hand-made; I've been in a lot of automotive plants, but none like that one.

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When did you visit " Camelot "????

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@@carshowreporter You've forgotten? I lived in Milwaukee, 1981-1984. Excalibur was a customer

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Ah, of course!!!!! Was Avanti ( South Bend ) a customer, also??

@tombrown1898

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@@carshowreporter Nope. The only customer I remember in that part of the world was Weil-Maclean Steel Foundry. One Friday afternoon in 2001, I left work with the purchasing agent's guarantee that he was going to issue a purchase order over the weekend, and the fax would be waiting for me Monday morning. Well. There was a order cancellation waiting for me for an order I never received. Turns out that late Friday a directive went out from headquarters to cancel all capital equipment orders. The recession following 9/11 had begun.

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Another, very " interesting " period in American history.

I've always wanted a Series 1... I remember that they were nicknamed "Santa Monica Mustangs"! Brooks Stevens was a genius Designer.

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The Series I was a brute of a car ... and lovin' it!!! northeastwheelsevents.com/photo/img-20130915-152519-888

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@@carshowreporter I think they were probably at the top of the Replicar heap... There was also a 1929 Stutz boat tail roadster built in the late 70s that you wouldn't be able to tell from the real thing... It was built on a Ford F-100 truck chassis. And there was the Duesenberg II... Absolutely MAGNIFICENT! Completely indistinguishable from the actual car, but made of fiberglass... Authentic looking down to the wheels. And I also remember a kit that was sold to modify a Volkswagen Bug. It was called "The Carrington". My dad and uncle had a side business in the Eighties and built them in dad's body shop. They were absolutely gorgeous and really did look "classic", albeit really small 😁 Speaking of VWs, I'm with ya on those parking lights they used on the Excalibur in later years...🙄 You'd think that for that kind of money, they'd have used something a bit more elegant. Cheers!

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I had to consult the GG ... the Great Google, to find the Carrington. Very nice!!! www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=444077 How many cars did your Dad and Uncle build???

Auburn meets Stutz meets Corvette meets Morgan... Fusca! I wonder where they got the headlights from?..new old 30's stock?. I read that Phyllis Diller owned 4...Fang must have thought he was Fangio.

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You are right about Phyllis!! I don't know about Fang or his driving.... Excalibur made many of fittings or had them made to their specs. They were " forced " to use the VW lights because of the weird, US, regulations to get the turn and taillights approved!!!

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@@carshowreporter Phyllis referred to her partner as FANG ..😂

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Do we know anything about Fang, besides being part of Phyllis' schtick?? Was he a car guy?? Oh, Great Goggle.......... I loved Pyllis Diller!!

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@@carshowreporter More importantly do we know if Phyliss tore around in her Excalibers recklessly and had a wipe out on Geary and Post streets?..which don't even cross. 😂😆. Quote from Phyllis speaking to Fang ''Well they do now''🤣. I dare say with one or two or three or four X's in the garage, old Fang had unfettered access. Loved her too.😉

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You have to watch this short video of Phyllis and one of her Exs and, I do not know who ... kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmmdksGrY73HmbQ.html