Word: excalibur
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...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...
...Excalibur, which echoes the lines of the classic '28 SSK Mercedes-Benz, comes close to being an original; everything save the 454-cu.-in., 215-net-h.p. Chevrolet V-8 engine is built from hubs up in Milwaukee. The $64,500 Stutz Blackhawk VI starts out as a new wide-track Pontiac Grand Prix, which is sent to Turin, where Italian descendants of descendants of coachmakers handcraft a body of 18-gauge steel (twice the weight of Mercedes metal); the Shah of Iran is said to have ordered twelve of them...
...long, low, old-fashioned jobbie with running boards, bicycle fenders and blindingly chromed supercharger exhausts curling out of the hood. Suddenly, an ill-clad geek with long hair popped into the shop. Sonny Buono, of Sonny and Cher, pointed at the glittery relic and asked: "What's that?" "Excalibur," replied Sugarman. "I'll take it," chirped Sonny...
...seater Excalibur, custom-made in Milwaukee, is a fiber-glass replica of the 1927-29 Mercedes-Benz SSK, fitted onto a Studebaker Cruiser chas sis and propelled by a 350-h.p. Corvette engine. Sonny's model set him back about $10,000, which is cheap considering that the Excalibur is the car-of-the-month in Hollywood, and that, furthermore, owning the car-of-the-month wins nearly as many prestige points these days as punching Frank Sinatra in the gush...
...honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...