ONLY 1 IN THE WORLD | 1953 DODGE STORM
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- Join our Chief Historian, Leslie Kendall, in talking about one of the most beautiful American coupes of the 50s. One of the numerous experiments of Bertone’s “American adventure” in the 1950’s was the Dodge Storm Z-250, an imposing coupé created for Chrysler, which aimed to give the US market a car with Dodge mechanics and bodywork created by the Italian master craftsmen
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Incredible - shame it did not go into production
OMG this is gorgeous! I can see lots of different cars in the lines of this beautiful Bertone design.
One of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen.
This car is one of my favorites at the museum and looks even better in person under the museum lights
Never heard of this concept. As usual concepts never become reality, but it is a terrific looking car.
That Silver Blue Is my favorite color , It's such a rich looking color.
The front end is "striking", the lines are awesome. Great story about how The Petersen got the vehicle. Thank You Mr. Zeder.
Stunning! Great proportions and lines.
Ahh yes and I am Benjamin Braddock and this beautiful car is Mrs Robinson. Beautiful lines very sultry and flirtatious. Great Video Thank You 🙏
Beautiful car. Thank goodness it wasn’t crushed like so many great show cars were.
Like a fiction car out of my childhood dreams. Very beautiful!
This looks a lot like the Facel Vega which I believe used a Chrystler engine. Check it out.
Mark you are correct the Facel Vega was manufactured for 4 or 5 years I think and ran a Chrysler big block ranging from I think a 361 up to the 383. Very pretty cars and sought after. I have lusted for one for years.
that was my first thought when i saw it.
I love the side profile, such a beautiful vehicle.
Gorgeous automobile.
a lot of Facel Vega there - such a sexy build
Incredibly beautiful for a 1953 design! :) - A sharp contrast to the UGLY straight - eight 1953 Pontiac sedan my Dad owned when I was a child! (I was born in 1953!). ;)
It sure looks like the Facel Vega, both beautifully styled work of art of automobiles. The pinnacle of automotive design well ahead of its time. Thanks!
This could have been Chryslers answer for the Corvette and Thunderbird. But reproducing that body work would have been too expensive. That corner of the market also had the Studebaker Hawk and Nash Healey to compete with to fill that niche. Bertone designs are some of the most beautiful cars ever created, and this is no exception. Absolutely stunning.
Never even heard of this Dodge , amazing car.
What a bummer that this was never made a production vehicle. It might have totally changed the automotive landscape forever. Not knocking on vettes or tbirds, but this is so much better looking.
My heart aches.
This is legend.
What a beautiful car. Thanks for showing it.
I mistook it for a Facel Vega.
Amazing lines on this ride. Visually graceful to look at it. Would like to have seen the under the hood or heard it run.
For christ sake enough talking and show us the car properly.Show us the interior and dash show us the engine and let the car do the talking!
Wow! Yet another car that I have never heard of or seen. Thanks for sharing.
If I would have seen that car in the American line up of 1955/56. Hands down it would have been my favorite! Beautiful Sport Muscle!
So that was a deep dive was it? We got a glance at the interior and never saw under the hood.....
yeah, kinda lame
Agreed
Looks like a Facel Vega. Very distinct. Glad it found the right home.
This 1953 Dodge Storm, 7 years before the very stunning 1960 Facel-Vega, the looks are quite similar. But in 1953 this Dodge makes even the beautiful 53 Lowey coupes look ordinary. Internationally no car in that year came close to this future leading design. Kind Regards
Facel - Vega FV1 was actually released in 54 and sales started in 54/55!! 56 came the updated FVS and HK500 in 59 As the years progressed they got sharper crisper lines. Very timeless classic class look, even by today standards a head turner
That is one of the most beautiful cars I have ever seen. What a shame it never went into production.
Clearly inspired the french Facel Vega of 1954 powered by a Chrysler 331 hemi.
I've never heard that story nor anything about this car. So striking. Reminds me very much of a Facel Vega. The 50s stylists were so forward-thinking (dare I say the Chrysler stylists in particularly were Forward Looking) and this is such a beautiful example of the era.
This car was so far ahead of its time.
Stunningly beautiful. What a treat to see it.
American manufacturers were guilty of this over & over. As an outside contractor, I'm a retired Ironworker, I once worked in The GM research center in Sterling Heights MI. As a superintendent, I was the only person in my crew allowed to traverse the hallways unattended by security. They were always moving cars around that place from one department to another. Once I came across a 2 seater sports car built by Buick. It was beautiful & I waited for it intending to buy one when it came out. When it came out, it was no longer a 2 seater sports car. It started out a cool little sports car & ended up a small family economy car.
That car is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! Wow! Is it really 80 years old? Whaaat?? I wanna wake up with it 🙂
Absolutely beautiful car. Like a lot of folks here, I can see the Facel Vega link (particularly at the front). I can also see the same roofline and side / rear 1/4 profile in the Ferrari 250 GT Boano coupe.
What a beautiful car. And this channel continues to be a fabulous addition to the landscape of you tube…
For the early 50s that would have been a heck of a contender. I could only imagine now all the car shows and people having these and bringing them to them! I thought the Corvettes of that time era were awesome but this thing is amazing!
An Amazing car for it's time! Chalk up another Chrysler blunder with this beauty! Thanks for sharing Mr. Kendall. Would have loved to see under the hood though.
Dodge dropped the ball on that one
The Zeder is a story of engineering meets artistic intent. It appears heavier than a T-bird, the hemi gave it the adge.
Always enjoy these episodes. It is terrific to learn about the history of automobiles especially rare and unusual examples. Thank you!
The closest thing to come to mind is Jay's Maserati 350 GT. It was great to hear the history but I would like to see more of the nuts and bolts of the car. Would you consider letting Jay Leno go over the car?
This is one of the few cars I've seen on which every line and every detail is perfect. Others: The 1957 300 C, 1965 Riviera, 1969 Continental Mk III, 1981 Imperial.
Stunning design!!!!
Beautiful car. It looks like it was the insperation for the Facel Vega's of the eally 60's.
Reminds me of a Facel Vega. Lovely car. I’d buy one.
DIY kits of this car to be finished by gearheads, should be made available NOW!! Thanks.
WOW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CAR OF THE ERA AND THIS COLOR AWESOME LOOKS
Another amazing prototype that makes you wonder if Chrysler should have zigged when they zagged on this one.
What a beautiful clean design!
That might be the prettiest car Dodge has ever made. Shame it didn't make it to production
It would be nice if you not only talked about the car and it's history, but actually showed the car, open the door and really look around. Open the hood, open the trunk, open the door and look at it!! That being said, I do enjoy your videos. My father was a mechanic and sales while I was growing up, during that period and I practically lived in his shop, looking and googling over cars, so I really like to look cars over, thoroughly. I've never seen this car before. Thank you.
And less than 10 years later, Chrysler gave us the Turbine.
A beautiful work of art
Very good looking hunk of steel, a steel masterpiece!
What a beautiful car. Wonder how it would’ve impacted Dodge through the years.
spectacular car
This car should have been made. This is what happens when clueless blind ‘Bean Counters’ are in-charge, and not visionaries. Let’s see, it gathers a huge crowd so big that the police actually want the car removed from the street, and the absolute complete morons at Chrysler ignore this ..? This car, would have been a total success. This is why you always want a visionary running a company, and never a ‘bean counter’ because, they never see anything but a spreadsheet. They are like automatons. As an artist, I have been fighting them for decades.
BEAUTIFUL 👍
That's one Chrysler should have built. Direct competition for the T-Bird. Looks timeless 60 yrs later.
Appears to have the same front end of the Ghia, similar to the one Dennis Collins purchased several months ago.
Beautiful!!!
Stunning
....jaw dropping...OMG !
Thanks for the look at some automotive history,
Would be nice to see the motor and a test drive .
I always thought of the Cunningham's as the grand-daddy of Dodge Vipers, but this might qualify too.
That's quite the good looking car. I prefer it's appearance to the Corvette or the Thunderbird of the period. During the heyday of the Personal Luxury Coupe of the late 60's, and through the 70's, I wonder if it would have gone the same route as the T-Bird, or followed the path of the Vette, had it been produced? Or, would it have gone from sports car to muscle car? It's a shame that it wasn't produced, but it doesn't really fall in line with Exners "Forward Look" design protocol, so I assume that would be why it was stuck in a warehouse.
One thing though; you personally rode in that car with Zeder, discussed the car at length with him, and he personally called to donate the car to the museum... Yet, asking about the existence of the fiberglass body never occurred to you?! Certainly, he would have at least known if the fiberglass body was produced, even if he didn't know where it was or whether or not it was destroyed. My guess, though, is that if it ever did exist, Zeder would have mentioned it. If he didn't mention it, then it was most likely never produced.
Swapping bodies, while a novel concept, would have been quite the nuisance, in practice. You'd likely not be doing it by yourself. You'd need the space for the extra body, and you'd also need a hoist and rigging for lifting bodies of the chassis, and moving them to their storage spots, and vise versa.
It would have been interesting, though, to see who was buying the unwanted fiberglass bodies from those who preferred steel, and the unwanted steel from those who preferred fiberglass, and how those unwanted bodies were modified... supposing they were. The aftermarket body selection might also have been interesting.
Beautful. Looks more like something from the mid 1960s.
This looks very much like the car that was put into production as a FIAT 2300.
coupe S around 1961.
every time I see a beautiful car like this I want to build my own. if only money wasn't such a problem...
The taillights really have got a hint of Simca Aronde design...
I did have 3 cars in exactly this color...two of them where Simca 🍀
can see so many of this cars design cues used by all of the Big Three
The front side profile reminds me very much of the 1963 Buick Riviera!
Thank you for posting this!
I am seeing a connection between this Dodge Storm & the Facel Vega FV/FVS of the same time, it also had a Chrysler engine but there has to be more connected to each other & would like to know what? Both were beautiful automobiles, then & now...
love the styling, futuristic too.
Looks like a cross of the T-bird and Vette nice!!
Sensational!
Beautiful
Whom ever owns that car should restore a 1 of 1 back to it's originality.
Very Facel Vega Ish
Yes ,or visa versa as this slightly pre dates the HK500
that shape just another level
Super nice.
Facel Vega ..style ..stolen idea ..i still think it is one the most beautyful Car .
Beautiful car. If it created such an audience don't know why they did not run with it.
I think one of the main drivers, (excuse he pun, please), of interest was due to the returning military from the European Theater, where they saw, and maybe got to drive, examples of, at least, British sports cars. They were small, fast, and fun to drive. As most would be returning home to a waiting wife, it was a logical choice over those behemoths that they drove before the war. When other European car makers sent their best over here, after repairing the factories, there were only a few , almost hand-made sporty type cars available from off-brand American car makers who also got the idea in Europe. It really wasn't until GM put out the Chevrolet Corvette, that American's could buy an American-made spots car, although the first examples should have been held back a year or two to have the best engines and suspension. But, Corvettes did sell, and customer complaints got that car into what we have today. An American-made, world class supercar at really reasonable prices, usually a 20th of a Ferrari or Lamborghini.
Before anyone says it, yes, Ford did come out with the Thunderbird, but it quickly evolved into a four seat touring car, and then into a "personal luxury car". Even President Kennedy had a Thunderbird.
1953 Dodge Storm Z-250 my lord wow
I wish he would have explained more about why Dodge chose not to put such a beautiful car into production. I think it would have competed well against the Corvette.
Would be a great competition of the Corvette
Nice car. Would be interisting to know why they did not build it.
It looks a lot like Jay Leno’s classic Maserati.
Beautiful ❤️
I would like to know more about the mechanics of the cars. Or at least a peak under the hood and interior shot.
Wow what a beautiful car....
The wheel covers are exactly like the 1956 Dodge Royal Lancers
NICE!!
Way cool. Who else knows what else is out there.