2015年7月29日 · Famed Milwaukee-based industrial designer Brooks Stevens did the rest. The result was called Die Valkyrie, after Brunhilde and the other mythical “sisters of the wind” immortalized in Wagnerian opera.

2023年8月22日 · To create this car, he enlisted the skills of renowned industrial designer Brooks Stevens from Milwaukee. The car was named Die Valkyrie, after mythical wind sisters from opera. Stevens used a Cadillac Series Sixty-Two chassis and V-8 engine as the base, keeping much of their structure unchanged.

2024年1月18日 · When Brooks Stevens took on the Die Valkyrie project, he approached it with the utmost seriousness. For the foundation of this automotive masterpiece, he selected the chassis of a Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special. The choice was based on its wheelbase of 133 inches, or 3,378 mm.

With the help of Milwaukee-based industrial designer, Brooks Stevens, his dreams were answered. The Die Valkyrie had the luxury of a Lincoln Continental and the performance of Cadillac's overhead-valve V-8 engine found in the Series Sixty-Two.

2015年8月26日 · Die Valkyrie is a dream car that was created by famed industrial designer Brooks Stevens. It was intended to be an international star car, putting in appearances at both American and European car shows in 1955.

2017年8月2日 · No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make sure the first car he designed specifically for European car shows unmistakably announced its American V-8 powerplant.

2017年12月11日 · Conceived by industrial designer Clifford Brooks Stevens, who’s also responsible for the Miller Beer logo and Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, the Die Valkyrie started life as a 1955 Cadillac Series 60 ...

As an automobile designer round about 1954 Stevens shaped the Die Valkyrie based on the Cadillac Eldorado of the same year. The car had a V-shaped bumper. [ 6 ] He redesigned the 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk on a minuscule budget.

2020年4月3日 · 1954 Cadillac "Die Valkyrie" concept by Brooks Stevens. Stevens created the 1954 Cadillac “Die Valkyrie“ concept introduced at the 41 st International Automobile Salon in Paris, France. The model was very expensive and built on the Cadillac Series 60 Special chassis.

2017年8月7日 · The Gaylord car was designed by Brooks Stevens and introduced the same year that the die Valkyrie was unveiled. The elongated features of the 1955 Cadillac are a prime example of the design excess in vogue at the time.