Pontiac Strato-Streak

The Pontiac Strato-Streak was a show car that Pontiac built for the 1954 General Motors Motorama. Its design took cues from the Pontiac Catalina and it used the underpinnings of the Star Chief, with a 124 inch wheelbase and a height of 54.7 inches. The body was a fibreglass four-door hardtop with no centre pillar, four swivel bucket seats and doors that opened outward from the middle, the rear ones fitted with locks so they could not open unless the car was stopped in neutral. The interior used beige leather and gold metallic nylon. It was first painted metallic green, then repainted red and renamed Strato Streak II, and the name later went onto Pontiac's V8 engines.