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Rare Rides: The Very Rare 1964 Alvis Graber Super Coupe
Today’s Graber Super Coupe was one of the more luxurious ones.
Alvis was founded as a business concern in 1919 and offered race cars, armored military vehicles, and aircraft engines in addition to its passenger car lineup. The company’s basic first car the 10 appeared in 1920, but a decade later Alvis was producing fast coupes and expensive touring sedans.
WWII destroyed the Alvis production facilities entirely. Upon rebuilding the company debuted a new line of T cars that began with the TA 14. By the third generation of post-war models circa 1953, Alvis advanced to the TC. Around that time, Alvis had some body issues. The company had typically sourced its coupe and sedan bodies from Mulliners. But Mulliners were busy building Standard Triumph bodies, a company that ended up the owner of Mulliners by 1958. At the same time, Alvis had relied on Tickford for its luxury convertible bodies. Tickford too fell under new ownersh