Waldorf Nomad enters production 55 years after introduction

Superior 54 Sport Wagon

Kinda. It’s one of those eternal mysteries of gearheaddom: Why did GM never actually produce the Waldorf Corvette Nomad even though, from what we hear, demand for it was high then and a simmering interest in it has remained among old car people to this day. Heck, there’s a homemade clone of it that occasionally shows up at our Hemmings cruise-ins. Of course, the roof later got plopped on the full-size Chevrolet station wagon, the Nomad name lived on into the 1970s and the Corvette became an icon, but the combination of the three never progressed beyond that one show car.

Superior Glass Works in Molalla, Oregon, has decided to rectify that situation with their just-announced Superior 54 Sport Wagon, a fiberglass-bodied tribute to the Waldorf Nomad. Superior, which builds fiberglass replica street rod bodies, has developed the Superior 54 as a complete rolling package, which means it comes assembled on an Art Morrison chassis and only needs an engine (the chassis includes mounts for an LS-series V-8), a paint job and an interior. Front and rear suspension, along with the automatic or manual transaxle, come from a C5 Corvette, and the body is fitted with power locks and windows, along with provisions for air conditioning.

Superior 54 Sport Wagon

Superior plans to build no more than 25 of these rolling packages at a cost of $125,000 each. Steep, but imagine the cost of buying a ‘54 Corvette and a C5 rolling chassis, then converting it yourself. Superior also plans to publicly debut the Superior 54 at Back to the 50s in Minneapolis later this month.

Superior 54 Sport Wagon

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Waldorf Nomad enters production 55 years after introduction

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