11 Dan Palatnik Studios: Allard Clipper Artwork Dan Palatnik has been our artist of choice who has helped recapture the beauty of cars long thought lost and gone forever. We rely on Dan to evoke the design of past automotive treasures and we have consistently used his artwork with our restoration teams here at Undiscovered Classics to bring back the excitement of seeing the best of what a car has to offer to our team and the public who follow our work. In this section of the book, we showcase Dan’s art around the 1954 Allard Clipper showing three versions: • Hardtop in place • Hardtop removed and Brooklands windscreens (2) added • Both versions with dickey or rumble seat opened DID YOU KNOW… The sweeping, scroll-like body treatment seen on the sides of the 1954 Allard Clipper was inspired by a style favored by Jacques Saoutchik and other European coachbuilders of the early postwar years. This is recognized as a transitional style from when cars were styled with pontoon fenders to when the design changed relatively quickly to slab sided automobiles. The type of transitional style shown on the Allard Clipper is often referred to as a “fadeaway” and was used on postwar custom cars in America too. 1948 Cadillac Convertible Series 62 by Saoutchik
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