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- Overview, history, walkaround, and road test of a very rare and unique post-war Italian automobile.
Coachbuilt by Carrozzeria Boano in Torino Italy
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Prob the most classy car I’ve ever seen made for an elegant man.
This is certainly one of the nicest car designs of the postwar era. But, I would have to say that the best design in my opinion is the early 1950's Bentley Continental R Type fastback coupe. The fastback design is quite extraordinary and very sleek in appearance. They made about 200 of these cars and some have sold at auction for over $2,000,000.
@@boblacks945 I always thought the Continental R Type fastback appeared bloated, heavy, and cumbersome.
Thank you for that. I do believe this is the MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRUSLER I have ever seen!!
Marvelous masterpiece of arts and engineering.
Chrysler had so many stunning concept cars, and this is probably the most beautiful of them all. Why didn't they build this magnificent, breathtaking piece of art? Even the colors are brilliant.
I believe that this the most Beautiful American Sports Car Ever Made, Especially, Sporting The Most Powerful V8 Engine Ever Mass Produced "The Chrysler Corporation HEMI 354 Cid! What a joy and That Classic Ghia Italian Design with Power Sunroof, Power Steering and the Chrysler Corporation High Quality Engineering and Safety Drive Train, Especially, That Push Button 3-Speed Automatic Chrysler Torque Flite Transmission! This Chrysler 300B Automobile is a Definite one of a Kind American Car Gem like no other AutoMakers foreign or Domestic! It's an Original!
Glad you liked it here is some more information about the car www.chryslerboano.com/
Yes, 355 HP 354" Hemi engine... not "345" inch as at 03:24... first over one HP per cubic inch...
"The most powerful V8 engine EVER mass produced"?! At the time, not "ever". Not even close.
Now I was thinking what a beautiful car . I love the 55 Chrysler models and an Italian coach built one ! Then you talk about the history and I start to really take notice.
I am currently restoring Umberto Agnelli’s FIAT Dino spider !
So this stuff is fantastic.
Mark, Thank you. I'd love to find out more about your project and I'm happy to share my research and history.
Mark, we would all like to see that FIAT Dino! Make a video please.
Beautiful car it belongs in a museum.
It's beautiful. Too bad they didn't make it into production. It one of the most beautiful Chryslers i ever seen.
😍 Wow... For a 56 Chrysler, that is beautiful from every angle. Rolling art.
I had never heard of this Chrysler model. It puts the Continental Mark II to shame! Absolutely stunning!
No...not really. Looks like they took queues from the 55' Mark II Lincoln, designed by Elwood Engle. Chrysler would later fire Virgil Exner and hire Elwood Engle to replace him. Chrysler then began to design more stylish cars like the beautiful.64-66 Imperial Crown models.
Agree, never seen one before, they make the Mark II exterior look crude. Love the tail lights borrowed from the regular Chrysler of that year.
Don't you get it? This isn't a regular production car. It's a custom based on a 300 model.
If I were you I would tread very carefully about criticizing the Lincoln because the Chrysler is sporting Mark 2 taillights and the Lincoln was a production Luxury Boat type automobile while the Chrysler was more of a sportster set of wheels like maybe a Thunderbird. If you ever drive a Mark 2 you will find that they're no slouch. I had a '56 Chrysler 300 and it was super quick unfortunately the previous owner had driven it very hard and it suffered engine and transmission problems.
Jon Dega this car
is a truly elegant
stunner in the same
vein as 1950s gt cars
like the Facel Vega,
Mercedes, and Studebaker
coupes. Beeeauuuuuuutiful.
👍🏾♥️👏🏾🔥👊🏾
Amazing, the batwing air cleaner was also used by Packard and Cadillac. Beautiful car.
Beautiful car! First one I have ever seen.
Very elegant and gobs of class. What a beauty.
Very Nice Indeed, kept getting Lincoln vibes all nite, very well done!
Yeh...a mini 1955 Lincoln Mark II.
I see Karman Ghia in the quarter panels.
That is a perfect car! Why have I never seen this before? I would love to own that car....
Probably can, just cough up a million and a quarter!
This is one of the most beautiful cars I have ever laid eyes on. I've Loved cars ever since I was a baby and I'm 71 years old now. Thank you for posting this video !
Steve, Your Welcome
Extremely beautiful!!! It's got a definite european style! From my standpoint of view, 1955 and 1956 were the 2 years in which the nicest cars were ever made!
Wow! Interesting it has no quarter vents on this stunning car. Thank you for posting.
You're welcome
That's something. Truly divine!
Chrysler should have made these to sell
2-door, 2-seat perfection. Fun video - thanks.
Glad you liked it!
That has to be one of the most beautiful classic cars I've ever seen.
To bad Chrysler didn't buy the rights to put it into production. I bet they would have sold well over here.
Be still my beating heart: I'm in love. ❤️ Stunningly gorgeous and sexy car.
Outstanding, car!!!
The color combo is Great, The moonroof ahead of it's time.
what an incredible beautifull car !!!!
Dang, that is gorgeous! Just something about coach built cars!
I mean how am I supposed to get an upload started with this looking at me?
That car should have gone into production just like it is shown there. The proportions are perfect! It would have been a great answer to the T Bird of that era.
What a fascinating car! I was thinking it looked like a Studebaker built on a Bentley budget.
The front made me think Studebaker.
So much beauty and class. The colors are magnificent.
What an absolutely beautiful car.
Thanks for sharing.
what an elegant automobile.... thanks for sharing such a beauty!
BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART 🎉 !!!!! The interior looks VERY SIMILAR to a Mercedes 500 sl during the 1950,s & under the hood looks like a jaguar Very well done !!!!! Brian & Micheal
What beautiful BodyLines That car has !
Totally Faultless …
Congratulations. This is a sportive car with futuristic design. And classic inside stile
@ about 49 seconds i realized it's gorgeous & there's no rear view mirror on the outside....
Let's move on, & hey Johnny great job my dude!
Nice to see a classy dressed gentleman showing us a classy car.
That's an absolutely gorgeous car
Never saw this before, one of the most beautiful '50s sports models I've ever seen. A little surprising that Agnelli didn't try to produce a FIAT with similar lines.
What an impressive Classic Beauty. To me it looks a lot like a 1957 Thunderbird in over all design, a one and only for sure.
Great looking car.
Thanks for sharing.
Stunning Sir.
Beautiful car, beautiful color! If Chrysler had actually built and sold cars like this stateside, they would probably not be owned by Stellantis today.
On first sight I thought it was one of Graber's variations on the 1950s Alvis TC21, but was totally knocked out when I read 'Chrysler 300B' which meant that it was American AND about 60 years old! It could so easily be mistaken for a British or top marque European car of that time, except that they would look old today. This car has a truly timeless beauty about it.The guy who commissioned it was a true visionery. Without question the most beautiful car I have seen in my 80 years, and is a credit to the restoration team. Whoever paid $1.1m for it got it so very cheap!
John, Thanks for watching and I'll pass your praise along to the team at Rare Classics Restorations in Boca Raton FL there is more history about the car here if your intersted. www.chryslerboano.com/
Awesome automobile!
I can see the 1957-1958 300's grille and hood, and Bentley Continental S1 rear fender 'hips'.
The Torqueflite dates the donor 300B to the last half of the model run.
Stunning car and a very well done video. Congratulations to you guys, and to the new owner.
Terrence, Thank You
These were so called " Dream cars" produced in Italy for Chrysler by Ghia of Turin, Italy.. They were not production models. They were very beautiful.
Beautiful !!!!!
gorgeous car
Really beautiful lines .. automobiles have yet to be appreciated for what pieces of art they are who knows maybe in time included with the names Rembrandt and Michelangelo will be some of these gorgeous cars and their desiigner's
Designed by Marcel Mario Boano of Ghia, similar to the designs of Virgil M. Exner Sr. An incredibly beautiful work of art.
Virgil Exner?? No way in hell. Virgil designed so many ugly cars Chrysler fired him and hired Ford/Lincoln designer Elwood Engle.
@@matrox You don't know Exner, and have a very biased opinion.
@@matroxElwood Engel designed the boring ugly Lincoln continental in 1961, I’ll take Exner any day
@@anthonypopola5773 You can have Exner...Chrysler didn't want him after designing all the ugly ass early 60s mopars.
@@matrox Exner did design some strange-looking cars, but you should check out the beautiful Ghia-bodied Chrysler specials he designed in the 1950s.
The engine is a 354 hemi not a 345. I had a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker with the hemi in the 60's as a teenager. I had a lot of fun with with that car.
I've never seen one of those. That thing is beautiful. It wouldn't bother me one bit to pull up next to a Rolls Royce in that baby.
Wow, beautiful car! As a swede 🇸🇪 I recognize this front, now I know where Volvo got their inspiration for the Volvo 164 from 1969, take a look at the front of the Volvo ...
A beautiful automobile.
Looks like a shorter 1955 Mark II Lincoln.
Superb!
DE LAY CIOUS!!!!!
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Wow.
i never knew these existed, very nice. kind of on par with the buick skylark.
Ulti-mullet! Wow! 😮
Beautiful car, has the same atmotsphere as the Studebaker Hawk.
Florida Man rockin' the Mullet!
Looks like a refined studebaker
Never seen one or heard of one, classy
How can you be “serious” with a guy sporting a gigantic mullet? Someone who feels it necessary to explain to us who Gianni Agnelli was? Oh, hell, he gets a thumbs up because his heart is in the right place.
very very chic
Love Italian special coachbuilt American collabs. just stunning. Couple are sitting at the bottom of the sea on the Lusitania. sad really.
Gorgeous !
BEAUTIFUL.
Great video! We would like to see the inside of the trunk.
David, here is a link to photos of the car including the trunk: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0dvmxma0847lz60ttys77/ANiRpIXid2-lJvgHO753r0o?rlkey=8jjqwd4sdqcem8ex0lvh7a0au&dl=0
Waiting to hear the 2 fours full throttle sound I once heard on a 55 300 conv friend had and a 57 eldorado
similar in a way to the Lincoln continentals of that era
Gosh.... stunning
Chrysler had fine mechanical components in those days! The rear view reminds me more of Lincoln than a Chrysler 300...but who cares?? This car is exactly what it was made to be.
I want one…. Make it 2 !
Well folks that’s a real life mullet. I’ve heard of such haircuts but have never seen one in the wild brah 🤔
Correction The Chrysler 300B V8 Engine 354 Cubic Inch (Three Hundred Fifty Four) Engine
1960 Studebaker Hawkish...
Has more than a passing remeblance to some certain Packard and Studebaker models.
Wow❤
Gorgeous but the exhaust tips have to go. Beautiful car and the sunroof in a hardtop are unique, is it removable? Kelsey Hayes wire wheels? I was raised in a Chrysler/Mopar family. What is the vibration while you were driving and steering?
That would be quite a trick - a removable hardtop that has a sunroof.
@@davidbolt5113 And I thought of that afterwards. I reply as I watch along.
07:24 Its Jackie Kennedy
Yes, and the President called Mrs. Kennedy durring her trip and said "More First Lady and less Agnelli"
Torino license plate,Angelli was an very interesting gentlemen
The license plate on the car is a "Novelty Plate" that I made using the year and chassis number of the car and I chose the province of Torino as that's where Carrozzeria Boano was located. The car was never registered in Italy but wore the French registration of 2019 XN 91 during it's tenue there. Gianni Angelli was most definitely the Man.
I had 1955 c 300.The moonroof looks out of place.The sound deadening under the hood defeats the cool sound of a solid lifter hemi.Other then that pretty cool.
Would be even more elegant if both the headlights and rear lights were free of bezels, but it's a beaut.
A nice looking part of America. Where was this filmed?
Boca Raton, Florida Thanks for watching
I would prefer this over the Ghia
The wrap around bumpers were um borred from Jaguar for the '61 e-type or was it! Nice video thanks and super nice car!
Sacramento? spent time around the Rams Head?
Beautiful, BUT the grill isn't. Vertical bars flush to the outside would be an improvement
On the basis nearly all American cars are rubbish - that is BEAUTIFUL.
Not sure if I missed it - did you mention the engine size, horsepower and torque?
It's a 354 CID Hemi factory rated at 340hp / 385 ftlbs (there was an option with higher compresion heads that produced 355hp) Thanks for watching.
@@jondega Thanks - nice video. 👌🏼
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin each had one we're not many made😮
Joe, There was a Detroit based company named Dual Motors that produced a Chrysler based car with a Ghia body between 1956 and 1958; it was know as the Dual Ghia, there were 117 made and were very popular with the Hollywood set including Sinatra and Martin. The Chrysler 300B in the Video was bodied by Boano who only did 2 cars of their own design this one and the Lincoln Indianapolis show the car. Both were single unit production making them true one of one auto's. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful car but the front grill looks odd
So who stole this design from who? It looks suspiciously like a Bentley Flying Spur of the same era.
In a 1995 letter from Gian Palo Boano he states "Ordered new in April 1955 by Gianni Agnelli the car was to be a, "2-seat coupe with a powerful, modern mechanical system '" a classic. British-style coupe, not a modern shape." So that explains that althought the Chrysler is a much more gracefull design and exicution and the Bentley is more stiff upper lip; in my opinion. Thanks for watching.
Or Studebaker Silver Hawk?
2:39 isn’t Gianni Agnelli the former head of FIAT?
Agnelli was President of FIAT from 1966 to 1996 and was the honory chairman untill his death in 2003.
Don’t you just love when car companies pass over a great car design and continue to crap