Cunningham planned a sedan?

Some of the most impressive post-war American cars came not from Detroit, but from West Palm Beach, Florida, where Briggs Cunningham built both his race and his street cars, the latter produced just as an excuse to continue building the former. But what if Cunningham had made more of an effort to actually produce a profit [...] 2009-07-02T07:53:56-07:00 Some of the most impressive post-war American cars came not from Detroit, but from West Palm Beach, Florida, where Briggs Cunningham built both his race and his street cars, the latter produced just as an excuse to continue building the former. But what i 37705

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Certainly Briggs would have kept racing and developing his competition cars, but perhaps he might have expanded the civilian offerings, maybe by offering a sedan.</p> <p>Blasphemy? Imagination run wild? I would have said so too before coming across the above photo of a Vignale rendering of a Cunningham sedan. Allegedly, famed car reviewer Tom McCahill snapped the shot when left alone for a moment in the office of Alfredo Vignale, whose company built the civilian Cunningham C3 coupe. McCahill intimated that the rendering was not commissioned by Briggs Cunningham, rather an attempt by Vignale to convince Cunningham to build it. In typical McCahill fashion, though, swashbuckling drama took precedent over actual journalism, and we learned nothing more of the rendering from him.</p> <style type="text/css"> #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } </style> <div id="gallery-1" class="gallery galleryid-12694"> <dl class="gallery-item"><dt class="gallery-icon"> <a href="http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/cunninghamsedan_resized.jpg" title="Cunningham sedan"><img width="150" height="65" src="http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/cunninghamsedan_resized.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Cunningham sedan"></a> </dt></dl> <dl class="gallery-item"><dt class="gallery-icon"> <a href="http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/cunninghamsedan_2000.jpg" title="Cunningham sedan, Vignale rendering"><img width="150" height="65" src="http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/cunninghamsedan_2000.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Cunningham sedan, Vignale rendering"></a> </dt></dl> <br style="clear: both;"> </div> <p class="postmetadata alt"> <small> This entry was posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under <a href="http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/hemmings-editors/daniel-strohl/" title="View all posts in Daniel Strohl" rel="category tag">Daniel Strohl</a>, <a href="http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/automobilia/renderings-and-concept-sketches/" title="View all posts in renderings and concept sketches" rel="category tag">renderings and concept sketches</a>. 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