Phantom Corsair 1938
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Phantom Corsair is an automobile prototype from 1938. It is a six-passenger coupe that was designed by Rust Heinz, a member of the H. J. Heinz (57 Varieties) family, and Maurice Schwartz of the Pasadena, California based Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company. The design was quite a departure from contemporary car design and it did away with many stylistic features that were also eventually abandoned by mainstream designers.
Heinz planned to put the Phantom Corsair (which cost approximately $24,000 to produce in 1938 - approximately $300,000 in 2005 dollars) into limited production at an estimated selling price of $12,500. His death, however, shortly after the car was completed, ended those plans. The automobile was featured as the Flying Wombat in the 1938 film, "The Young In Heart."
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