The one and only Pininfarina X Concecpt can be yours with eBay bids starting at $800,000. Photo courtesy Aero Toy Store.
Automakers were in a heady, experimental mood in 1960. Though European carmakers spent the 1950s shaking off the devastation of WWII, Americans had been dazzling the world with wild concept cars since the dawn of the decade. By 1960 General Motors was showing off working prototypes of joystick-controlled, jet-powered cars that steered themselves down highways of tomorrow. Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina rose to the occasion with the X-Concept.
The egg-shaped, finned coupe has its wheels arranged in an "X" pattern. The front wheel provides steering, a rear wheel puts the power to the road and the two outriggers keep the whole thing from tipping over.
A mighty 43 horsepower four cylinder Fiat engine brings the power and a four-speed manual transmission keeps things properly sporting. The X-Concept's extremely cab-forward design is balanced by its towering fins out back.
Yes, the X-Concept is sure to set tongues wagging at your next classic car cruise-in, especially when you tell them what you paid for it.
Bidding starts at $800,000.
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Comments
I'm not being over critical but that looks absolutely terrible... I do own a high end sports car (lamborghini) so I do appriciate beauty for high prices but I would never throw even 100,000 at such an eyesore as this. (much less 800,000) and the fiat engine sealed the deal on its worth... I'm sure someone out here has an eye for such a car but if I saw this on the road my stare would not be of curiosity or admiration, it'd be of disgust. It looks likean 80's Nasa rocket project (unfinished) and connected to the rear end of a cadillac.
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