Ones of a kind – Claymobile, Voyageur, Coachman

The month of July 1977 was a good one for Hemmings Motor News. Within the span of just a few pages, we had display ads for three different one-of-a-kind vehicles, two of which we know are still around today.

The first, the Claymobile, was the subject of not only a post here a year ago, not only of some controversy over its origins, but also apparently of a theft that, to our knowledge, remains unsolved. Note that it was then located in South Carolina, not Alabama, where it was rediscovered last year.

The next, the AMC Gremlin Voyageur, which features the Grembin slide-out package tray and the basketweave side panels, is also still around, in Brian Moyer’s Gremlin collection, which we featured way back in the SIA days. It’s high time I visit Brian…

Finally, the 1975 Eldorado Coachman, a two-door Eldo-based station wagon similar to, but obviously substantially different from, the Casa de Eldorado reader Steve Donohue recently spotted.  We see nothing similar to it in the Cadillac Database of Dream Cars on Cadillac Chassis, nor in any of our Cadillac reference books.