Customs 1950s Dream Cars..dreams on wheels

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wow!

 

The first one. the 51 ZIS-112 is russian and real.




The only sad thing is,. that there werent more dreamcars made.

 

Cool! Looks like it may have been inspired by GM's Buick LaSabre dream car?

 

You mean, copied, don't you? While the Soviets could come up with interesting designs themselves, they did knock off a lot of concepts from the West, not that we were immune to cribbing stuff from elsewhere.

 

Me too - on both counts! I just unearthed my original copy of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild guide. I did try a couple of times to create something, but my clay modeling skills were absolutely diabolical, to be polite about it.

 

yea, it would have been funnier if it was the other way around. tho harvey earl had a good track record, so probably not.



This seems to have either, preceded or been influenced by the lasabre too.

 

Unfortunatly the coolest stuff never got built.

 

Some were pretty far out!

 

you must browse all the same websites as me haha

 

is this the one you mentioned? + an ALCOA ad

 

Yup, mrjynx! Looks that way.Some of the old mag covers back then had some interesting artist representations of future dream cars too.

 

another GM ad fromBetter Homes & Gardens July 1952, The other GM & ALCOA were 1953 I believe

 

Virgil Exner's XNR. One built.

 

Hey,

Do you know how late those in the contest were required to model the "Corination Coach", did that last up until they ended the program in the late 60's?

The french car builder Samson also built a varient of the Buick Le Sabre show car, their version is almost as "interesting" as the Russian Zil was.

" Spending a nation into generational debt is not an act of compassion "

 

didnt notice that, i thought it was a buick invicta or whatever they called it. sweet ride.

 

S'more! I think the top row right car was a concept car from Willys! The last car pictured was a gas turbine.

 

Cool thread. Dream cars rule.

 

The first one reminds me of a Plymouth but it's from Packard. The other one looks like it may have come from Studebaker.

 

hmm seems right what magazine is it from?

 

There is a great book, distributed by Motorbooks International titled
"The GM Motorama, Dream cars of the fifties" by Bruce Berghoff. It covers the entire period of the Motoramas; the show set ups and the cars. Very interesting. I was fortunate to see the last 1961 Motorama in San Francisco. My Dad worked for GM building cars in Oakland, then Fremont. I was about five years old, still remember it vaguely.

 

Do you own this book? is there any information on the mystere from the 57 autorama in there?

 

Sorry .. not listed on the pages . the reverse side talks about the new 1953 models . Got several thousand loose car ads at a yard sale last year. This old timer had cut them all out over the years. he told me " I sure ruined a lot of magazines." I got about 1/3 of them sorted by make so far. Seems that I had another duplicate of this somewhere too.

 

i love all of those cars. i just built a model of that lincoln futura, how great would it be to drive around in a bubble top

 

What scale? got pics? cant be to many of those kits around.
I was thinking of building one larger, like these models.

http://1966batvehicles.yuku.com/topic/1031/t/My-new-toy.html

 

i got it off of ebay, its a re pop from the 90s its 1/25 scale, and i know next month they are releasing a batmobile in 1/25 scale, the hobby shop down the street has them in 1/30somthing scale

 

sobpunx said: "i love all of those cars...... how great would it be to drive around in a bubble top"

Yeah, I agree, that would be cool!

 

One of these bubble tops would be way cool!

 

Only half right.

Everyone is using the same software, due to Fed. Gov. mandate.
All the key components have to fit into a particular envelope.
Headlights must be a certain height from the ground, not too close together, or too far apart, only four are allowed, only two can be lit at one time, etc.

Bumpers are heavily regulated, glass, engines, air-bags, CAFE standards, all determined by safety Nazi's and eco-nuts instead of stylist or engineers.

Remember who supports this big brother garbage in November, and vote them out.

For the children!

 

Before computer design software:

 

I love it when people dont know what the hell theyre talking about. all designs start out on a drawing board, theres no software to create cars, theres visualisation software, but that will only visualise whatever design you put into it.

Implying its the recent government who has shaped the whole of car design progression lately. *facepalm*

I found you a better smiley.