RealMiniDriver wrote:
Interesting, but how do you see the road?
RealMiniDriver wrote:
Interesting, but how do you see the road?
N Sperlo wrote:RealMiniDriver wrote:Interesting, but how do you see the road?
Use the Force...
1985...
1948 video cars of the future
JoeyM wrote:50 years of Japanese Concept Cars
um why do I like that so much?... so 70's tastic...
anyway this is mine... dad gave me his popular mechanics when he was done with em (back in '87 or so)... one had this car (corvette indy concept car) I cut out all the pics and the pull out poster... hung on my wall untill I got married some 13 or 14 years latter lol
I really believed that the Nissan Mid4 was only a few months away.
Not actually concept cars, but a great prank. I'm actually a bit surprised nobody has built one yet.
Ford Nucleon. With a nuclear reactor in the trunk. Yes.
Does the Ford Nucleon have enough frontal overhang?
Couldn't DRIVE that thing on any road out here....if it worked in the first place.
Spacey, cute, and so, so, so awesome. I want one.
Woody wrote: Great paint!
I was at BJ's and found a book of 80s concept cars. There are about a dozen I want to try and build models of when I get some time
Woody wrote: Great paint!
Did you ever hear the story of that paint job? As I recall, Duntov wanted it to match a mounted fish he had in his office. The crew painted the car, but Duntov felt it wasn't a match. They painted it again, and still Duntov was not happy with the results. While Duntov was traveling, the team repainted the fish from his office with the same paint they just used on the car instead of painting the car. Duntov returned, compared fish to car, and approved the "third" respray.
The CERV Corvettes were always a few years away.
ransom wrote:
Yamaha OX99-11 project code name Madonna internaly, the first car I ever worked on. I finished Uni and started work for IAD (International Automotive Design) in Oct 1990 and was soon assigned to the Madonna project. I worked on specing the wheel bearings, and specing the size of the radiators. I went to the Mira wind tunnel twice, first with the 1/5 scale model then with the full size car and an F40 for comparison. It was the dream start to a career in the auto industry, later I was working in the test lab doing torsion tests on the carbon monoqocue. The first prototypes were powered by full on F1 spec engines and they sounded unreal. My best man also has the honor of being the first person to crash one! The initial track testing was done at night for security reasons and he hit a curb on the Mira test track and bent a wishbone during data collection. He still swears to this day that he never hit anything though!! Happy days. Madonna was never intended to be just a concept car, it was destined for production, screw ups by Ypsilon (who were to build it) and the crappy economy plus the dire results by Yamaha in F1 killed it.
pinchvalve wrote:Woody wrote: Great paint!Did you ever hear the story of that paint job? As I recall, Duntov wanted it to match a mounted fish he had in his office. The crew painted the car, but Duntov felt it wasn't a match. They painted it again, and still Duntov was not happy with the results. While Duntov was traveling, the team repainted the fish from his office with the same paint they just used on the car instead of painting the car. Duntov returned, compared fish to car, and approved the "third" respray.
Duntov was my hero for a long time.... Too bad I never got to meet him.
JoeyM wrote:
I'm not really sure what's going on here, but I want one.
Aston Martin Bulldog
The show car.
The driver car.
At least I can say that I drove that one.
The least boxy car ever to wear a Dodge Dart badge, and an exercise in streamlining. I read somewhere that it used a full belly pan as well.
Woody wrote: I really believed that the Nissan Mid4 was only a few months away.
Man, that would have been a cool car. We really don't have that many mid-rear cars available. Very BMW M1-ish. Me likey!
My Dad was very excited about the Nissan Mid4, he even got a model kit of it.
donalson wrote: anyway this is mine... dad gave me his popular mechanics when he was done with em (back in '87 or so)... one had this car (corvette indy concept car) I cut out all the pics and the pull out poster... hung on my wall untill I got married some 13 or 14 years latter lol
One of my favorites. I have a 1/32 model of it that my kids play with. Very pretty and very C5 if you look in the right places.
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