Postwar Spohn

[LE ZEBRE]

citroen trailer photo 2

[StillOutThere]

Eiwanger's questioning of where to put the spare lead to an additional contract for a beautifully detailed, skirted luggage trailer!   Marvelous!  Wonderful!

[StillOutThere]

1950 Pontiac chassis with Spohn carosserie.  Would have been crafted after the 1951 introduction of the GM Le Sabre (tail) and '51 GM XP300 (grille)

[grobmotorix]

What a trailer... riding with style!

[grobmotorix]

Another pic of Karl Maybach with some of his creations. Left is the Spohn-bodied "TT AP 80":

[barrett]

A slightly better view of the Veritas I posted on page 2

[barrett]

And another one

[StillOutThere]

Approximate 1955 Spohn Custom built on a 1947 Cadillac chassis  for Charles (Chuck) Justice of Gainesville, Virginia.   Mr. Justice, a private citizen, shipped his Cad to Spohn requesting custom coachwork and specifying particular design elements.  Obviously one aspect was the front end mimicking Brook's Stevens' Die Valkyrie which Spohn had completed for the 1954 Paris Auto Show.  When done the car was shipped back to Mr. Justice.  In the early 1970s the car appeared on a used car lot in that city where these photographs were taken by David S. Henderson.  Has anyone seen the car more recently?

[StillOutThere]

The red '57 Spohn "Cruiser" presumed '39 Ford chassis, formerly of the Florida Dezer Collection is now owned by Wayne Carini, in Portland, Connecticut.
The white '49 Spohn Veritas formerly of the Chicago, Illinois Hartung Collection is now owned by Dale Walksler, Wheels Through Time museum in South Carolina.
The pair are scheduled to appear at the Amelia Island concours in March of 2013.

The '52 Spohn "Palos", my car and photographs attached here, will be part of a "Finned Flights of Fancy" exhibition at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles beginning February, 2013 and ending Feb. 2014.  The car will be shown unrestored.

[grobmotorix]

 

[StillOutThere]

SPOHN CUSTOM ENTHUSIASTS

For those interested in reading about the post WWII cars with coachbuilt custom bodies on American car chassis by the Spohn Carosserie, there is now a page on Facebook.
Photo albums and information regarding individual Spohn Customs are being posted.
Upcoming events are available in the "Events" tab at top of the page under the banner.
The personal perspective of the page administrator, myself, flavors the time line.
Comments are welcome.
Please "Like" the page if you visit and do like it.

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[Otto Puzzell]

What's that you say? Are requesting permission to promote your own site by virtue of the community we've built here since 2006?

[StillOutThere]

It is not a web site.  It is merely a Facebook page.  It has a welcome to Auto Puzzles visitors and links to the Auto Puzzles Spohn forum.  I would have thought the mutual promotion good for all.

[Otto Puzzell]

That was added after you posted here; thank you for adding it.

We'll add your site to the AutoPuzzles friends page.

All, here is the Spohn page link:

www.facebook.com/SpohnCustomEnthusiasts

[StillOutThere]

That was added after you posted here; thank you for adding it.

We'll add your site to the AutoPuzzles friends page.

All, here is the Spohn page link:

www.facebook.com/SpohnCustomEnthusiasts

Thank you, Sir.

[Otto Puzzell]

Done!

http://www.autopuzzles.com/Friends.htm

[grobmotorix]

 

[StillOutThere]

Another Spohn Custom has been identified as a 1941 Lincoln chassis.  Spohn's build year is not known but probably '52-54 period.  When last seen in 1956, at the time of these photos, the car was in Vandalia, Illinois and was powered by a Oldsmobile OHV8.  If you have seen the car the nephew and niece of that '50s owner are trying to find the car.

[grobmotorix]

Oh yes! What a nice find!

[Paul Jaray]

What could be a good interior to match with that car? Zebra!

[StillOutThere]

Another owner's choice.  There were two USAF buddies that bought wrecked Veritas and had Spohn rework them.  They went to Africa and did a safari on R&R, brought back the skins, had the cars done.  The survivor was interviewed about a dozen years ago with the story.  The car you have pictured currently owned by Dale Walksler and was in the Hartung collection.  It has some remnants of the zebra but most was replaced.

[StillOutThere]

Update to restoration of the '52 Spohn Palos.   Body repairs completed and car is painted back to its original color.   Front medallion located for the car.  Much other progress.