Alvis TC 21/100 Graber Super Cabriolet - Land in sight!
Summary
The Alvis coachbuilt by Hermann Graber were neither the most beautiful, the fastest nor the most expensive of their kind. But they knew how to please and convince in their unagitated way. Even at almost 70 years of age, an Alvis TC 21/100 is a wonderfully relaxed car. This article introduces the Graber Super Cabriolet. Take to the road with us.
This article contains the following chapters
- Off to the fenderless world
- The double 100
- Special bodies in series production
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Usually, the vernacular tends to compare US cars with seafaring vehicles, calling them battleships, road cruisers or land yachts, often with a slightly disparaging undertone. The small, open-top Italian sports two-seaters, which are no longer only called "barchetta" - "little boat" - in their home country, form the opposite pole. But the nautical analogies end here, apart from model names (Chevrolet Corvette) or curious one-offs (Osi Bisiluro). As on the asphalt, there are of course not only small nutshells and huge oil tankers on the water. There are the racy, powerful sports models; the dinghy cruisers for fishing trips with the family and the group transporters for tourist tours that always hold up the traffic a little. Translated into automobiles of the 1950s, they are roughly equivalent to the Jaguar XK 120, Ford Country Squire and VW "Samba Bus".
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