Virgil Exner and Luigi Segre collaborated on designs, and the latter’s skilled Italian craftsmen provided affordable labor for hand-building the prototypes, show cars, and exclusive models that followed. Cars like the Chrysler d’Elegance, DeSoto Adventurer, and Dodge Firearrow are considered some of the most beautiful and influential American dream cars of the era. In 1952 they revealed the Chrysler Special, a stunning one-off built for export division boss C.B. Thomas. Later known as the Chrysler Thomas Special, this car served as the inspiration for a limited run of highly exclusive and stylish luxury coupes, known as “Ghia Specials.” Chrysler supplied Hemi-powered New Yorker chassis to Ghia, who hand-built the coachwork to Exner’s design, and completed cars were sold exclusively through the official French Chrysler distributor, Société French Motors.

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