2011 Carmild News- Beautiful ‘Beatnik Bubbletop’ Ready to auction

2011 Carmild News- Beautiful ‘Beatnik Bubbletop’ Ready to auction, You’ll be hard-pressed to acquisition a acknowledgment searching car than this 1955 Ford “Beatnik Bubbletop” Custom concept, which is headed for the bargain block. The bubbletop is accepted to back $200,000 to $300,000 at RM Auction’s Amelia Island accident on March 12.

The car was congenital by Gary “Chopit” Fioto, who says he admits that as a kid growing up on Long Island he was absorbed with Bubbletops. He chopped up a 1950 Mercury and called it the “Beatnik” afterwards his car club. The car is actuallly a lavender 1955 Ford-based custom. It won the $20,000 Grand Prize at Darryl Starbird’s National Rod and Custom Car Show, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Beatnik” rides on a acclimatized ’88 Lincoln Town Car chassis. It uses an all-embracing mix of Cadillac, Chrysler and Lincoln components:

The foreground bonanza was acclimatized from a ’59 Cadillac, while the rear bonanza was ancient from the foreground bonanza of a ’58 Cadillac. The finned taillights are 1960 Chrysler. The foreground and rear fenders, the aperture banknote and the absolute rear area of the car are all steel, hand-formed and oxy-acetylene welded. It has a 400 horsepower, 350-inch Chevrolet V-8 engine with six carburetors, GM automated transmission, hydraulic foreground disc, rear boom brakes.