Family Legacy of Designers...

My wife comes from a long line of car fanatics.  Her dad is a tremendously talented fabricator.  His '57 LS1-powered Corvette was one of our early ISIS installs.  Her grandfather, Bob, is an especially talented car guy.  One of his favorite quotes is "a guy could build something like that" and repeatedly over his life, he has done just that.  Instead of buying it, he'd just make it with his 3 brothers.  That includes some really unique boats and cars. 

One of their projects was recently highlighted on the Kustomrama blog.  Dubbed the Kutzler Dream Car,

it was a futuristic fiberglass car built by the Kutzler brothers of Waukegan, Illinois. The futuristic car was designed by my wife's grandfather, and built by him and his brothers Adolph, Raymond and Joseph Kutzler. They had their own ideas as to what the ideal car should be, so they decided to design and build one each. Their basic idea was to build a car for maximum service and economy. The project occupied about two years on a part time basis. The build was started in 1958, and the brothers actually started building four cars. They were all based on a Henry J chassis. A clay model was made from Bob's sketches, before a plaster model was made to fabricate a fiberglass mold. The bumperless design incorporated huge fins in the rear of the car, dual headlights, a tube grille and a large hood scoop. The doors had what the brothers called "gull wing windows", and they would swing up like bird wings. There was no trunk-lid on the car, but you could access the trunk from the rear seat. The engine in the car was a Super Hurricane 6 flathead. The interior was custom made, from the seat frames and the upholstery, to the handle that opened the window from the outside. Only one of the cars was completed. This car was painted white and it was fit with Cadillac hubcaps. The engine in this car was overhauled completely, and the car was also reworked mechanically. The frame had to be lowered, and wood paneling had to be installed as the base beneath the fiberglass. Once completed the Chicago Tribune wrote a story on the "Auto of the Future" in March 1964. The car was driven regularly until it was sold with the molds in 1968 for about $900. The brothers went on to build racing boats.

You can see the whole wiki article about the car here with a lot of pictures.  If only he had ISIS when he built that!