Chapter 1378 A White Witch Sacred Secret(Taboo/Incest):>Ep24

• Where the Avanti was futuristic, the Mercedes-Benz SSK was a classic Pre-WWII design. It was designed by Ferdinand Porsche during the golden era of the Stutz Bearcat, Bugatti and the Duesenberg, when each car was hand-built with custom coachwork for the very rich who demanded the best. Driving a car from that era on the modern highways and then far into the hill country north of LA would be foolish in terms of the performance, brakes, lights, and relative lack of safety equipment, not to mention the very real risk of mechanical breakdown in a "no cell" zone.
• David was not driving a car from that era. He was driving a more modern copy of the SSK, his "weekend driver" Excalibur was also built in 1967, with various upgrades applied. As a Wisconsin boy, David had always been a fan of the fine limited production autos which were produced in the Milwaukee area. His wife Ann (a West Allis girl she grew up less than 2 miles from the factory) was a collector with six Excaliburs in various states of repair. She also owned a few Studebakers. Both of her late husbands had Excaliburs and she met husband #2 while at an Excalibur Club gathering with husband #1.
• The two designs shared a history. Their last year of US production, Studebaker tried to break from their "economy" image (they regularly won their class in Mobil Economy Runs) and introduced 2 remarkable new "halo" designs: Avanti and Excaliburs. Both were based on wrapping the sturdy Studebaker X-frame chassis and high-performance V-8 engines in a distinctive nothing-like-it-anywhere body.