Dual-Ghia

Dual-Ghia was a rare, short-lived American automobile make produced between 1956 and 1958. The idea of a sporty, limited production luxury car came from Eugene Casaroll, who controlled the Detroit specialised vehicle builder Dual-Motors Corporation, and the name reflects the collaboration between that builder and the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Ghia. The design grew out of the Ghia-built Dodge-based Firearrow and Firebomb show cars, which Dual-Motors developed into a production-friendly car with Dodge V8 power. A Dodge frame and drivetrain were shipped to Italy, where Ghia fabricated the body and interior, and the partly finished cars returned to the United States for completion, a process described as the world's longest assembly line. The only official body was a four-place convertible, with one coupe prototype. About 117 were built, and they went mostly to celebrity buyers.