Venus Automobile

The Venus Automobile is a one-piece fiberglass-bodied custom car produced in the early to mid-1950s in the USA. The prototype was mounted on a 1949 Ford chassis, and powered by a Ford flathead V8 motor with high-performance heads and intake manifold. The car's designer, Kenneth McLoad, was granted a US Design Patent, number 177,499 in April 1956. The Venus also appeared on the cover of the May 1953 issue of Motor Trend Magazine. Fewer than ten of these car bodies were ever produced, and only two are currently known to be in existence, both in Texas.

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