Girl on fire

Oh, how we dread car inspired furniture. Clocks made from wheel covers or timing chains;  the obvious rear end turned into cabinet, couch or sofa, or the write off turned into bed, desk or snooker table. Please! But worst of all are of course engine block based coffee tables, likely to be bought by techno-snobs who adorn them with unnecessary books.

Is there an exception? Of course there is. And that's when you place a 1950s beauty queen on a partly divided V8/gearbox exhibit as if it was a comfy little seat. The venue? The Los Angeles Auto Show of 1952. The stand? DeSoto's. The engine? Their all-new Firedome V8 Hemi, giving the best capacity to power ration in the US of A at the time (4,524cc / 160hp). But who's the 1950s Kathleen Turner lookalike? Well well, that turns out to be Shirley Buchanan who is said to have sadly passed away in a car accident on her way to Houston in 2001. Let's just hope no one turned the wreck into a sofa.

(Text Jeroen Booij)

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