The Space Age Hits the Road: Visionary Car Designs in America

1954 Chrysler La Comtesse

Chrysler’s Virgil Exner commissioned a pair of “his” and “her” show cars for 1954, dubbed Le Comte and La Comtesse. The La Comtesse model featured a 235-horsepower V8 engine underneath a body with a dusty rose paint coat, a pigeon gray transparent plastic top, and chrome moldings running along the lower half of the car between the wheel wells. A number of its stylistic conventions were adopted the next year in Dodge’s La Femme model. La Comtesse was recently rediscovered in a garage in Southern California.
 

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