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The original Chevrolet Nomad concept from 1954 was presented along with the C1 Corvette at the GM’s Motorama showcase. The styling mimicked the Corvette up to the A-pillars, then became a long-roof shooting brake. The Nomad name was used on various production Chevrolet station wagons and several more shooting brake concepts, but none of them made it into Chevrolet’s showrooms

General Motors commissioned Pininfarina to create alternative styling for the C2 Corvette. The project was given to a young Tom Tjaarda, who altered the proportions of the US Corvette with lighter, cleaner styling for the Corvette Rondine concept of 1963. The project went no further, but the car’s rear bodywork, incorporating slim horizontal lamps and a recessed panel, found its way onto Pininfarina’s Fiat 124 Sport Spider (also designed by Tjaarda) in 1966, where it stayed through two generations until 2020

Carrozzeria Francis Lombardi had been established in the immediate post-WW2 period and built up a successful coachbuilding business mostly based on modified Fiats. For the 1970 Turin Motor Show, they prepared a sports car using VW Beetle underpinnings. Their Volkswagen 1600 SS was a wedge-shaped coupé with a low nose and concealed headlamps. It remained a one-off. Lombardi closed its doors in 1973. 

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