Bentley S2 #16
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The one with the sloping roof looks to have taken a lot of its inspiration from late-'40s Cadillac Sedanettes and Buick Roadmasters.
I guess it all comes full circle, though, because the squared-off roofline of a Bentley or RR inspired Bill Mitchell to pen the Buick Silver Arrow I concept which became the Riviera, one of the best looking cars of its age.
Bentley S3 #19
(The one with quad headlamps)
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[quote=f6fhellcat13;998839]The one with the sloping roof looks to have taken a lot of its inspiration from late-'40s Cadillac Sedanettes and Buick Roadmasters.
I guess it all comes full circle, though, because the squared-off roofline of a Bentley or RR inspired Bill Mitchell to pen the Buick Silver Arrow I concept which became the Riviera, one of the best looking cars of its age.[/quote]
You mean H.J. Mulliner's Continental Coupé? This isn't the first cars with that type of body, the R-Type Continental was already available with a similar bodystyle, altough I don't know wheter back then H.J. Mulliner got the inspiration from US cars or not.
[quote=Ferrer;998844]You mean H.J. Mulliner's Continental Coupé? This isn't the first cars with that type of body, the R-Type Continental was already available with a similar bodystyle, altough I don't know wheter back then H.J. Mulliner got the inspiration from US cars or not.[/quote]
Yes, the R-Type was still from the early '50s, though, so they had a few years to see the late-'40s GM luxury offerings. It would be an interesting pollination of ideas that goes contrary to the norm if it actually is the case.
EDIT: I am a wrong; back in those days it probably was going in that direction, and the other way is a more modern phenomenon.