I'm gonna love this thread. My parents took me to the 64- 65 worlds fair. If I could relive one week of my life over again. I think I'd pick that week. I loved the Concept cars of the big three. I took this photo at the Petersen museum. As a kid I thought I be driveing something like this in the year 2000! lol Ron.....
I think the silver and red one is even cooler. The doors mid bed on the yellow one are a little odd. There are a few that would be cool to see built. The gold coupe would be super cool.
Gordon Davis was a designer at Chrysler Corp. from 1955 to 1958. Hired as an Art Center School alumnus by Virgil Exner, he began with the Advanced Styling Studio before being transferred to the Chrysler Studio and then onto DeSoto. Young lad Paul Matz sketches a car under the scrutiny of (left to right) Carl Reynolds, assistant director of Styling for Chrysler; Virgil Exner, director of styling; and designer Gordon Davis Gordon Davis ... hard at work Here's some of Gordon's work (culled from his posts on Facebook or his MidCenturyCarArt.com website): Chrysler Turbine Concept - October 1956 Forward Look Concept - April 1957 "RED HEMI" Concept - August 1957 Chrysler 300X Concept - October 1957 "Wildcat X" Concept - January 1958 Buick Targa Concept - September 1958 Corvette Concept - September 1958 Cadillac Concept - October 1958 4-passenger Corvette Proposal sent to Bill Mitchell - October 1958 Three-Wheeled Concept - January 1959 Corvette SSK Concept - January 1959 Imperial Proposal - March 1959 Plymouth Proposal - April 1959 Dodge II Proposal - April 1959 Barracuda Concept - May 1959 Twin Firedome Concept - July 1959 Dodge Proposal - August 1959 Chrysler Saratoga Proposal - September 1959 On a side-note: Mr. Davis would fit right in on the H.A.M.B. ... here's his customized '54 Studebaker as featured in the November 1955 issue of ROD & Custom:
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i was at the Gilmore museum this summer and they had a display of concept art. they put the challenge out to "top" professional designers in the industry to take a car from the past that is no longer made and draw what it would look like, if production had been continued. absolutely stunning concepts and a brilliant idea! gave me some customizing "food for thought".
Some shots from some magazine's I flipped through... Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Thanks @brett4christ ! Great thread Ryan, thank you for this. Those are also a bunch of amazing studio samples.
It's kinda interesting that in '55, Citroën actually put a car in production that wasn't super far from some of the space age designs shown here. Citroën's engineers were just as weird as their designers, and I can't imagine that the bosses even knew what was going on before it was too late.
As a kid checking out all the car books from the elementary school library, I loved the concept cars and pics from the styling studios. I thought it would be the coolest job to work there and carve the clay cars....I still do. I also wished that in the early 70's we were driving all those bubble top concepts from the 50's and still wish car design had gone that direction instead of the nondescript blobs we have today. I'm pretty sure the world would be cooler today had it turned out like a Weesner drawing and our bubble top flying cars.
Of course there's got to be a Studebaker on here.... Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
And sadly as I was flipping through the pages I spotted a car that has been in the news alot ... I probably don't need to explain any further...other than Mr. Timbs looks rather proud of his car in this shot ... I had never seen this article before...may the car now RIP. ....nuff said.... except if this is not a proper place or time for this post ... please make it go away....Thank You....Terry (aka) Rudestude Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I wish I had saved some of those hundreds of sketches I did in study hall period back in high school.
Found this in the back page's of a 1952 Restyle your car magazine put out by Motor Trend....it lets you be the designer... Sent from my QTASUN1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
The Jalopy Journal
