A transparent car is set to fetch between £170,000 and £295,000 when it goes up for auction in Plymouth, Michigan, on July 30. The motor, dubbed the Ghost Car, is a Pontiac Deluxe Six covered in Plexiglas, the see-through material.
Built in 1939 by General Motors and Rohm and Haas, the chemical company that developed Plexiglas, it was the first transparent full-sized car to be made in America, at a cost of £15,000. Billed as a vision of the future, it was a sensation at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair.
Just two were made and this one, with three-speed