Cisitalia 202 Coupe

A 1947 Cistalia 202 Coupe. Photo courtesy of Carrozzieri Italiani.

Bob Petersen's 1948 Cisitalia 202 Coupe. After the car was driven across the country from Boston in 1952, it was dropped of at Barris Kustoms for body and paintwork. The color was changed from brown to silver.

The Atlas Swallow is a fiberglass sports car that emerged from a collaboration between renowned automotive innovators Bill Burke and Mickey Thompson in the early 1950s. In 1952, Burke and Thompson began working on the Atlas Swallow after pulling a mold from Robert Petersen's 1946 Cisitalia 202 Coupe. They partnered with Roy Kinch, the founder of Atlas Fiber-Glass, Inc., and later changed the company's name to Allied Fiberglass. The first body produced was the 94-inch wheelbase coupe called the Allied Swallow. A roadster version, the Allied Falcon, followed in 1953, and the larger 100-inch wheelbase version, the Allied Blackhawk coupe, appeared in 1954. Photo courtesy of Undiscovered Classics.