Recived this email from ChopShop and a few others last week ...Wouldn't you love to have a couple of these parked in your garage? These are all prototypes, but look good enough for todays markets. Of course they are made from REAL metal, compared to the plastic vehicles we have now. Harley Earl and the 1938 Buick. Think about this. This picture was taken 70 years ago. 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt 1951 Buick LeSabre What would you give for that car now? 1951 Chrysler K310 1953 Buick Wildcat 1954 Buick Wildcat II 1954 Dodge Firearrow Back in the days when cars had style, and even with so many makes & models, all changing every year, they made a profit. Back then however the CEO did not make 480 times the wage of the man on the production floor.
Well, I guess I got the next best thing. Two weekends ago I was at the G.M. Design Centers employee open house and I got to get my hands, literally, on two of those cars. The '38 Buick Y Job and the '51 LeSabre. They were both parked in the "shop" at the Design Center having some cosmetics done to them. Most of the guests there were totally unimpressed by the cars and just wandered past them. There was a tech there that was doing some of the actual work on them and he and I got chatting....next thnig you know we were opening hoods and doors and playing with these cars!!!!! There was also the Cadillac Cyclone and the '59 Bill Mitchell "Sting Ray" there along with a mid engine "Vette from the '70's. The Buick Y Job has the original straight eight and the car, mechanically, is original except for the wiring which had deteriorated over time and had been replaced with more cloth covered wire. It was a once in a lifetime experience, I wish the folks with me had had more patience, I might still be there!
nitrofc, The 1941 Chryster Thunderbolt looks very cool, I'll take one for my garage. The rest of the proto types well, I can see why they were never put into production. CRUISER
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