3 1/2 hours later.......whew !! most enjoyable !! I realize there is more to life than gas mileage,,,,
I just did an article on the Walter Wyss W2, streamlined hand built car from the early 1930's. Lots of neat photos in the ARTICLE
I picked up on that for the Pre-Streamline Art Deco thread (see post 159). It looks like I should do the same for the Backbone Ch***is thread.
There was a wild-looking Bugatti T57 roadster with a similar arrangement. A white one was shown at Pebble Beach 20 years or so ago, but as I recall it was discredited as a fake. I don't know if the fake was a copy of a lost car, or a figment of somebody's imagination. Brumm made a 1/43 scale diecast model of it, and I have one. The articulated front fender isn't obvious in the model, but it was that way in the fullsize car. Edit: This is the car I was talking about. I believe that there were one or more of these originally built by Bugatti in the '30s, although I understood that this one was a later fake:
The Impala concept car is kinda interesting. The overall size and layout are pretty typical '50s 2-door hardtop, but it appears to be quite low overall -- more like an Iso Rivolta or other later 4-seater GT car. I would have preferred the grille lips painted body color, and better looking wires.
Swoopy? Some of you guys must have a different idea of what that is to me. The Goggomobile is about 3 feet long on wheelbarrow wheels. Smooth like a half worn bar of soap, but I don't know about swoopy. A car needs to have some length and fluid flow to be swoopy. IMHO.
Jose85, you have a good feel for this sort of thing, and a good collection of rarely-seen cars of the type. I particularly like this one. Thanks for playing!
Nice, Rick. I believe this one was the 1933 show car, but copies of it were listed as available by Cadillac on (I think) V-16, V-12, and V8 ch***is. I haven't found evidence that any were ever built with the smaller engines. I think somewhere between three and six of the V-16s were built and sold. Notice the chrome plated OUTSIDE garnish moldings. Don't think I've ever seen that before.
Don't know if anyone's posted this yet, but here's a Mercedes 130 w rear-engine concept (I would LOVE to flesh this one out in aluminum):
That's one of the two Omohundro-Kurtises, built shortly after the war. Both now belong to Geoff Hacker in Florida.
For that, I've always like the Opal GT (a.k.a. "Poor Man's Vette..") As if I could ever fit into one..
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