61 Other Cars Created As Proposals to Manufacturers Creating a car to test the waters with manufacturers was a theme that would be repeated with Dutch Darrin in 1952 and his Darrin Competition sports car. Darrin’s car would ultimately become the Kaiser Darrin 161 we know today. Brooks Stevens tried the same approach with his Excalibur in the early 1950s, and other designers did too. This was a common theme in the early postwar years where individuals and/or companies would design and build cars to entice the manufacturers to embrace and purchase their designs. Howard “Dutch” Darrin With His Darrin Sports Car Brooks Stevens With His Excalibur Sports Car
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