[1] It won first class in the "Tournament of Frame" at the show, which prize included a trip to Paris, France for Cushenbery and his wife.
In the style of some other show rods of the time, Cushenbery added a bubble canopy roof — front-hinged and supplied by Acry Plastics in this case.
[1] Silhouette made extensive use of electric controls on the dash or hidden in the car's trim for things like raising and lowering the bubble top, opening the hood and trunk, starting the engine, turning on and off the lights, and running the blower fans.
[3][12] It was also in the opening and closing sequences of the 1968 television special "Wonderful World of Wheels", driven by narrator Lloyd Bridges.
Silhouette was mentioned in a magazine article written by Tom Wolfe titled "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby".