$49,500
Indianapolis, Indiana
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View our eBay StoreSign up for our Email Newsletter 1986 Excalibur Phaeton Series V offered with a reserve This immaculate Series V Phaeton, was purchased in 2000 by the current owners from the Milwaukee plant where it had been sent by the original owner for service work on the power top-which had never been operated, and needed refurbished. Having covered only 8,000 miles at the time, they have used the car sparingly on sunny summer days only, and accumulated only another 10,000 miles during the past 15 years. The car presents essentially as a new example, with excellent fit and finish throughout. It runs perfectly and all accessories work properly including the Air Conditioning. The Wood dash and Connolly leather interior is without fault, and the exterior finish is in excellent condition. Featuring both the hard and soft tops and with full power including Steering, Brakes, and Windows, this is a well cared for example that will provide years of continued touring and showing enjoyment to the lucky new owner. We have many more photographs of this car, please click on any image to be taken to our full-size image list! The Excalibur automobile , was a car styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK by Brooks Stevens for Studebaker. Stevens subsequently formed a company to manufacture and market the cars, which were conventional under their styling. A prototype premiered at the New York City Auto Show in 1964, fitted on a Studebaker Lark Daytona chassis and using a 290-horsepower Studebaker R2 289 V-8 supercharged engine. Studebaker almost immediately ceased its operations, ending the availability of that engine. Stevens subsequently obtained engines from General Motors through his friends, GM executives Ed Cole and "Bunkie" Knudsen. These were Chevrolet 327s in 300-bhp Corvette tune, making the 2100-pound Excalibur a strong performer. With the standard 3.31:1 rear axle, acceleration from 0-60 mph took less than six seconds. Projected top speed was 134 mph. In order to respect the tradition of changing models every five years, Excalibur introduced its Series V in 1985, a yet more luxurious vehicle offering a choice of more powerful engines for the European market, the most potent one developing over 300 hp SAE. They only managed to sell 97 cars in that year and 68 in 1986. A little over 3,200 Excalibur cars were built, all in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The American comedian Phyllis Diller was a notable proponent of the Excalibur automobile, and owned four of them. The company failed in 1986, but was revived several times. Production of the Excalibur continued until 1997. Our Ebay Policies: Significant Cars is one of the largest Collector Car Brokers and Dealers in the Country. Since 2003 we have worked hard to "change the way collector cars find new homes" by providing unparralleled web presentation of the cars we are representing. Most of our cars have over 30 photographs, and these can be viewed by visiting our website (our eBay handle dot com), or by clicking on any of the photographs in the black background area of our EBay listings. We welcome your call with any questions about any of our listings at anytime at 800-837-9902 and certainly encourage your personal inspection of any of the cars we are selling-just call us and we will be happy to set up an appointment for your to see and test drive the car. We realize that eBay is a difficult venue to properly evaluate an item as complex as an automobile. You can feel secure bidding with confidence on any of our cars since we guarantee your satisfaction! Should you win the auction and come to see the car and decide you do not want it for any reason, no negative feedback will result, any deposit you may have paid will be cheerfully refunded. Description images and copy © Significant Cars, Inc.
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