Monday, February 17, 2014

Cars That Never Made It



They were pure fantasy on wheels, machines designed to make the heart race and the mind ask, “What If?”

These 1950’s concept cars were automotive art built to attract public attention, test wild engineering ideas and give motorists a fleeting glimpse down the highway of tomorrow.

Notice the license plate on the last car!











1957 Chrysler Diablo














1956 Buick Centurion II












1954 Ford La Tosca













1951 Buick LeSabre













1959 GM Firebird III















1955 Lincoln Futura













1951Buick XP-300













1955 Ford Mystere














1959 Cadillac Cyclone















1954 Oldsmobile Rocket F88














1958 Ford X-2000












1953 Cadillac Ghia Coupe
















1955 Lincoln Indianapolis











1957 Mercury D524 (This car was never shown to the public)














1956 Packard Predictor












1952 Chrysler D'Elegance














1954 De Soto Adventurer II












1953 Ford X-100















1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket














1956 Pontiac Club De Mer


Ahh Yes... Jetsons indeed.



9 comments:

Janie Junebug said...

Those are cool!

Love,
Janie

Linda said...

Interesting. I lived through this era.

LL said...

There were a lot of concept cars that were shaped by the emergence of a Bat Mobile.

Coffeypot said...

Many of the designs did come from the batman craze, but what interest me is, the money spent to make these cars. I mean the die cast for the shaping of the metal, the different special things that had to be made to make everything fit. This was a lot of money spent to show off one, or in some cases, a limited number of these awesome machines. Did they even have engines?

Ed Bonderenka said...

Sheet metal on these were hand formed.
Still, a lot of development bucks.
I think sometimes they served the purpose of pointing which way NOT to go.
The 1956 Packard Predictor looks like an Edsel.
The 1953 Cadillac Ghia Coupe like a Jag.
This was cool, thanks.

lotta joy said...

I LIKE the Cadillac Cyclone. Our neighbors brought home a Studebaker and I never could tell if they were pulling INTO the garage or backing out. Of course that was in the 50's, before I knew my ass from my hand.

Old NFO said...

Beautiful cars!!! Too bad some of them didn't make it...

Furry Bottoms said...

I would have driven a 4 and a 10. Those would have been SO cool. What's going on with engineer's now? Oh wait. NO offense to YOU. I am talking about these car makers nowdays. These cars you mentioned in this post are so gnarly. I love them.

Coffeypot said...

FB, I am no engineer. I was an accountant. I'm the one who would have put the kabosh to these cars as too expensive to produce. Instead, now, I would drive any of them for kicks.