coach-built

It also showed off its new Bacalar, a roofless, limited edition, $1.9 million, carbon-fiber two-seater that recalls the brand’s coach-built past.

For example, Mike Baum, by day a Microsoft executive in Los Angeles, frequently weighs in about the cars he knows best — early Porsches, vintage Citroens and “funky coach-built Italian models.”

When Kurt Glaubitz bought a vintage British automobile, it wasn’t for its sweeping curves or coach-built looks.

He is keeping a boxed portfolio for coach-built models of the 1932 Packard V12: It includes black and white photographic plates on heavy stock depicting each of the 30 available custom body styles.