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Description: American automakers were renowned for building outlandish concept cars in the 50s and 60s. Rarely do they ever come up for auction, but that's just what RM has in store for us at Pebble Beach thi...
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built by italians is another way of saying a door will fall off. joking i love italian cars
Description: The XNR was fitted with a 250-horsepower 2.8-liter OHV slant-six mated to a three-speed manual transmission and was said to be capable of hitting 150 mph - a high speed for its day. Cartoonish as it w...
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@Phil, yep a slant 6 is not a V6 - and the photo in the article shows a slant 6.
They should have produced this, I bet it would have been an American classic
Description: Local youths found it in a garage just 200 meters from his home, and desperate not to let it disappear again, Edde purchased the unique Plymouth and hid it for the duration of the Lebanese civil war....
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Smart guy though. Think about it, what is the most opposite place from the war-torn Middle East to restore a car like this? Canada! haha
Wish I could find old exotic cars worth more money than most people will ever see at one time in MY garage!
Hmm I don't know Quinn, I think those old Challengers are better than looking than most cars out there. MOST cars.
Basically saying nothing has changed. Current generation still has wild concepts, current gen original cars are easier to obtain.
Janek and Andrew... You guys dating or something? Every car I mentioned you can purchase way easier then trying to find this concept. In terms of if you can afford it? Well you probably couldn't afford this concept neither when it came out.
I agree Andrew, there are some really nice designs out there, but some of these older cars really knocked it out of the park in terms of design. You could see the passion in the lines of the car. Today so many cars just copy each other.
Quinn, I was more referring to production cars that I could purchase at a local dealer. But you're right, we are seeing a lot more innovation than in the 90s-2000s.
Really? Juke with GTR transplant, Audi rs6 wagon with turbo'ed lambo motor (recent article), Ariel atom is pretty original, Etc.. Plenty of passion is coming up in diffrent configurations from manufacturers
Janak, we have unfortunately lost people who are willing to say "let's try something completely new and crazy that's never been done". Nobody builds things just for the passion and challenge of building them anymore.
@Colby, I think it is the angle of the photos. My theory is that in this photo from the point it starts to curve the chrome reflects the red paint and looks like it is not part of the chrome band.
I know the wings are part of the look everyone wanted at the time but they don't look (at least the style they went with) like they mesh with the rest of the car...
I would like to point out something. Look at the tips of the long chrome piece that runs along the back. The very ends are kind of chopped off and don't go all the way out, now flip over 2 pictures and look, then they are all the way stretched out.
Yep, in the 50s and 60s people wanted cars that looked like they could blast off into space, and it was an awesome time for car design.
Tone down the wings? This was the height of the "jet fighter" design. Check out the Cadillac Cyclone, Pininfarina Concept X, and Chevy Firebird I,II,III concepts.
One of the most beautiful things ever created. Would love to see someone produce this, even as a kit car or something.
Could have toned down on the wings a little, or just drop them completely
I think they could have changed the front a little bit, it doesn't look like it fits on the car
