Dream Cars - Buick LeSabre and XP 300

After WWII, GM design head, Harley Earl commissioned a new car for his daily driver -- the LeSabre. Like the Y Job he had built before the War this car was way out there and featured things not found on any other vehicle; a built in jack, a top that came up when it sensed rain, windshield wipers that automatically wiped when it rained and a cyclops, hidden headlight. Of course, GM's head of engineering, Charles Chayne, needed his own wild, daily driver so Earl had the designers create the XP 300 which, of