Great video and a lovely, lovely car. Kudos to Petrolicious for shining some light on a forgotten gem.
The Fischer Body, as a stand alone coachworks, is dead. They are no longer churning out bespoke products like it did before GM's ownership of the company. But there are plenty of outfits out there that still do this. And what's more, top end end brands now have in-house "skunkworks" of one kind or another that do it for some customers.
However, in some parts of the world, there are still carrozzerie that turn out lovely, one-off examples of a vehicle for a paying patron.
It would be great to see GM team up with a carrozzeria or coachwork outfit to work on such products. This could be much as Aston Martin has historically done with Zagato.
If the carrozzeria could line up a customer to shell out the money (and there are lots of them out there who love anything exclusive) and proposition a design, GM could give them whatever Cadillac (or Buick or whatever), they wanted to create a one-off bespoke product. If it got enough attention, GM could commission a limited run series of a certain car for the carrozzeria's potential customers and even sell them through a GM showroom, warranty intact and all. And it doesn't have to even be an outfit from Italy, Germany, or Britian. It could even be a domestic outfit like Foose Design.
It wouldn't be too expensive. GM would lose hardly anything on it. And if they were bold enough to give their formal consent and approval, it would create incredible buzz and exposure. What's more, an indirect side effect would be to "push" GM designers and engineers to think creatively as they design a product from scratch.
The Fischer Body, as a stand alone coachworks, is dead. They are no longer churning out bespoke products like it did before GM's ownership of the company. But there are plenty of outfits out there that still do this. And what's more, top end end brands now have in-house "skunkworks" of one kind or another that do it for some customers.
However, in some parts of the world, there are still carrozzerie that turn out lovely, one-off examples of a vehicle for a paying patron.
It would be great to see GM team up with a carrozzeria or coachwork outfit to work on such products. This could be much as Aston Martin has historically done with Zagato.
If the carrozzeria could line up a customer to shell out the money (and there are lots of them out there who love anything exclusive) and proposition a design, GM could give them whatever Cadillac (or Buick or whatever), they wanted to create a one-off bespoke product. If it got enough attention, GM could commission a limited run series of a certain car for the carrozzeria's potential customers and even sell them through a GM showroom, warranty intact and all. And it doesn't have to even be an outfit from Italy, Germany, or Britian. It could even be a domestic outfit like Foose Design.
It wouldn't be too expensive. GM would lose hardly anything on it. And if they were bold enough to give their formal consent and approval, it would create incredible buzz and exposure. What's more, an indirect side effect would be to "push" GM designers and engineers to think creatively as they design a product from scratch.
