Industrial designer Brooks Stevens might be best remembered for the clever, low-cost product makeovers he performed for independent automakers. But sometimes he allowed his talents to run free with more wide-open and speculative projects such as the three Scimitar cars he designed and built for Olin Aluminum.
The idea was conceived as a marketing vehicle to suggest functional and decorative applications for aluminum use in automobiles. The three Scimitar models were crafted by Karosseriewerk Reuter of Stuttgart, Germany and first exhibited at the 1959 Geneva Motor Show.