Customs 1950s Dream Cars..dreams on wheels

Detroits Wonder Wagons... the Cars of Tommorow

 

Futuristic ..Cars in the sky ...fantasies..the car of tommorrow
Futuristic ..Cars in the sky ...fantasies..the car of tommorrow

 

Stylish...

 

I always wanted to be in the Fisher Body Craftsman guild contest. Still have a booklet about how to get into it from the late 60's. They always came up with such cool looking cars.
Good post.

 

A few of those are real:
#4 : '54 Olds Starfire
#9 : the elusive black, 2nd '53 Buick Wildcat I
#11 : '52 Buick XP-300

 

Dreams do come true

 

keep on dreamin'

 

I live for this stuff, I wish more people would build wild cars like this.

 

What make is that black convertible in the color pic? It is simply amazing. I was thinking maybe Buick?

 

yes the black conv was a
Buick

 

mercury

 

Lincoln Futura pre Gotham City.

 

love this post!

 

That is the Buick Y-Job. It was a real, usable car and Harley Earl drove it for years.

There is lots of information available online, do a google search on it.

 

Another cool thread,rbantique! Thanks!

 

Keep'em coming guys!! I love this stuff.

 

Drool! love that one entitled "Capistrano" sooo cool.

 

familiar faces

 

50+ years later the styles still seem fresh

 

Here's a few more. I love this stuff.

 

I'm obsessed. Anybody else like this stuff? Got any more?

 

The reason they seem fresh is you don't see them everyday. Also, if mdern desingers would get off the computer and use thier imagination, we'd get cool results. Why do cars all look similar now? Because everybody's using the same software!

(just a rant, i don't know who's using what software, but it's a reasonable guess!)

 

Hey,

Too ,most major designers are comming from the same design/art schools.
Their work all seams to have the same DNA as pressed upon them by their instructors i.e. no original works, but ones with a target towards getting a passing grade in the class and thus to graduate.
Unlike in the past, todays development budgets for a design program don't have alot of fat in them to explore "what if" consepts. You couple that and what the federal regulations says you can and can't build and you get ''safe'' but ''monarl'' designs we see today.

" The icecream truck in his neighborhood plays Helter-Skelter "

 

I guess one shouldn't be surprised after every major automobile manufacturer has established a design house in southern California, but I for one am extremely tired of the Japanese cutesy and California cowpie schools of design foisted off on us by the graduates of the Art Center School in LA. There's a limit of how many times a bird beak or caricature of an Asian man's face can be used as a design element and still seem fresh, just as throwing bovine manure against a wall and using the remains of what falls to the ground as your latest and greatest idea has a limit. I understand government safety regulations may have something to do with it, but when they destroyed the top of roof to beltline, beltline to bottom of rocker panel proportions in an attempt to make everything look like a mini SUV with a chopped roof, they lost me. And just because Asian government homeland requirements have most small cars looking like disproportionate piles of stacked boxes, doesn't mean we need to embrace the import of them worldwide.

I too, long for the time when auto designers came to the individual onsite factory design studios from other disciplines, and were encouraged to expand the envelope, attempting to break away from what the competitors doing at the time, while maintaining the individual corporate and brand identity.

 

2nd last one is a '59 buick right?

 

has someone else a copy from a LIFE-LOOK magazine that is a 2 page center spread of 5-6 motorama GM CARS .. I had one, its from around 1954-55? and have misplaced it??????????????

 

i'd rather not buy the rubbish they pump out in this day and age but it could be worse. they could revive certain themes. i mean.. not that its everyone's thing but stand a 2010 vespa next to a 1950's vespa, a brand new mini next to an oldie, vw to vw, yada yada. i'm kinda glad they've left the cool stuff alone.

speaaking of which did anyone see that new car doing the circles in hotrod mags thats inspired by 57, 58 and 59 chevs. i'm sorry but *yuck*

 

DougHH asked "2nd last one is a '59 buick right? "

I assume you mean from post #20. If so, it is a Buick...not sure what year, but not a production model. Note the double bubble top!

 

Once almost lost, Found , to almost be Lost...




Hope this is a Acceptable contribution to this thread..

 

Thanks BK
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