It is a 1959 Simca Special, designed by Virgil Exner Jr.
It was created as his dream car for his master-thesis at the University of Notre Dame. It is based on a 1950 Fiat Chasis, with some mechanical parts from Simca. The glassfibre body was moulded by Exner himself, at the Dual-Ghia assembly plant.
Later, the car was sold to a Chrysler dealer, and in 1965, the car was bought by Beau Hickory.
Under his hands, the car was converted from a show-car to a daily driver,
adding the panoramic windscreen (coming from an Opel), and the T-Bar-roof. Years later, the car was sold to a friend of Beau Hickory,
he did some additional work on the car, for example, the engine was replaced by a Datsun one.