10 Futuristic American Concept Cars Of The 1950s And 60s
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- The 1950s and 1960s were times of rapid and endless innovation. With the Second World War coming to a close, the economy started to boom in the U.S. thanks to a massive increase in consumer spending, subsequently leading to more funds being pumped into countless different industries. the automotive industry was one that saw some of the biggest growth, and with all eyes on the future, some truly staggering concept cars were developed to represent what people could expect in the coming decades.
The concept cars designed in these two post-war decades were heavily inspired by other industries that also benefited from technological advancements. The space and aviation industries were the two that saw incredible progress, finding their way into almost every element of concept cars. The most prominent inspiration was tailfins, which were used to emulate the look of rockets, which at the time were the most impressive feat of engineering.
Alongside the design of these cars, what actually powers them was another area that was able to be explored further. Here are 10 of the era-defining concept cars from the ‘50s and ‘60s.
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TimeStamps:
00:00 Intro
00:17 1951 GM LeSabre
01:17 1953 Chevrolet Corvette EX52
02:13 1954 Lincoln Futura
03:03 1954 Ford La Tosca
03:47 1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket
04:31 1956 GM Firebird II
05:39 1957 Ford Nucleon
06:21 1961 Chrysler TurboFlite
07:10 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car
08:08 1963 Ford Seattle-Ite XXI
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George Barris customized the Ford Lincoln Futura to create the Batmobile.
No, he didn't. The design was by Eddie Graves and all the work was done by Bill Cushenberry. But Barris would never let that out while he was alive.
At 0:24 The GM La Saber. This car was part of my life. I grew up in Flint, Michigan. It sat in a small museum in Flint for 40 + years. I've seen it many times.
Americans... you lost the greatest milestone of car building in the history in 1970
Why did Detroit trinity fall down.
Huge tragedy..as for me
Incredible looking car!
Looks like the cars in the video game Fallout 4
1962 World fair was in Seattle not New York
Seventy years on and the reliable 'self-driving' car is yet to materialise.
which doesen´t work, lol
@@barfuss2007
"Which doesn't work".
Is that a question?!
Are you suggesting there currently exists a 100% reliable, 100% autonomous, 'self-driving vehicle'?!
It's extremely difficult to assess the 'work-ability' of something that has yet to materialise.
@@trueaussie9230
it is much more relaxing to dive on your own than watching a 98% functioning system... Think about reaction time. Furthermore there are legal problems in accidents.
@@barfuss2007
Is that supposed to address the questions I've put to you?!
Is English not your 1st language?!
My puerile troll alarm is beeping now.
@@trueaussie9230
Wir können uns gerne auf deutsch weiter unterhalten, wenn dir mein english nicht gefällt. Ein Feund von mir war Testfahrer bei einer deutschen Nobelmarke und in die Entwicklung des autonomen Fahrens involviert. Wer entscheidet in einer Unfallsituation wer überlebt? Der Computer? Wer haftet? Du kannst mir gerne auf deutsch antworten, vielen Dank schonmal.
Jay Lenos Garage!
Henry Earl? I think it's Harley Earl!
Well, you thought right. Something the announcer failed to mention is that Harley Earl used the LeSabre as his personal car for a number of years. . .
@@mortensen1961 - I knew it was Harley Earl, and I knew he used the car for years after. I have a little 1/72nd scale model of that car.
These DAMN robots can't pronounce most words properly, lets get back to humans that know what they are talking about.Real car people
Today's puerile 'entitled' muppets don't even know what the 'correct' words are, let alone how to pronounce them.
They rely on Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland) 'language logic' - any word, real or imagined, means whatever they want it to at any particular time.
Can't even mispronounce them the same way twice.
CORRECTION: the Ford Seattle-Ite XXI was introduced at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and not the 1964 NYC World's Fair
And the Roman numeral is 21, not 11! The 1962 Seattle World's Fair was called the Century 21 Exposition.
Looking at The 1961 Chrysler Turbo Flight body sides, I can now understand why the 1962 Plymouths and Dodges looked so strange.
Oh, son verdaderos joyas an sido aquí debajo del cielo super super...hermosos . Saludos de cusco Perú. Kliment
That Nucleon looks like it would faceplant every time you hit the brakes hard.
Like the early Econoline pick ups
His name was Harley Earl. Not Henry. do your research...
Henry was his sister
Every design looks futuristic.....
Artificial Intelligence is just so stupid!
Did anyone else notice the split rear window on the Olds Golden Rocket? It bears a strong resemblance to the '63 Corvette.
Que lindos esos carros auténticas joyas de arte.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
woow ❤😮
It's this kind of style that is lacking in cars today
The designers shouldn't have taken all those pills!
Some of those concept vehicles were sold during the GM collapse of 2009
Top demais só nave !!!!
何言ってるか分からないけど、ぶっ飛んでてカッコいい車ばかりだ😉👍
That car in the thumbnail lookd best of all
I don’t remember seeing it in the video.
Im glad we still have concept cars. I just wish hay leno was designing tgem.
Why Jay Leno ?
0:40 Harley, not Henry.
Who cares. What he created was fugly. lol.
Great video really enjoyed. In the 1982 there was a book out that showed what cars would look like in the 2000s . I think the designs were from the 70s. I should have brought that book
The books are out there for sale.
So you like the video did you learn anything from it? What do you think about general motors top designer Henry Earl? Him and his brother Harley invented the first manned flight did you know that ?😮
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Damn, they had millions to waste on weird concepts.
Front ends designed to slice you in half, rear ends to slice and dice the remaining pieces.
That Firebird looks like it was inspired by the WW2 Horten Flying Wing.
The golden rocket is what happens when a tucker and a 63 split window Corvette have a baby!
😂😂👍
2:13 -- The red car is a modern replica of the Lincoln Futura. The original car had bright chrome where the replica has what looks like flat aluminum. The replica looks smaller too.
I. Like. The. Shot. Of. Jay. Leno. Driving the turbine car It’s still in use. Cool. !!!
Wow
Dear RUclips, do you ever wonder why we have "ad blockers"?
Too many factual errors in this video! Just to name a few...The Lincoln Futura was designated as a 1955 model year, not 1954. The Ford Seattle-ite XXI was featured at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, not New York. The Roman numeral XXI in the name designated the "21st Century" which was the main theme of the fair. The 1959 Cadillac Cyclone was completely missed. It had a radar-operated collision avoidance system for goodness sake! Thumbs down for me...sorry.
Did he sat Henry Earl?
"Century 21" was the fair's slogan.
@@Greatdome99 The fair was actually called the Century 21 Exposition.
4:46: The Firebird II was NOT the first gas turbine family car. Chrysler had a 1954 Plymouth turbine prototype that they drove across the country to prove its worth.
8:07: Chrysler turbine car: Complex maintenance? Hardly. Maintenance was near zero since there were only a few moving parts (two stage turbine, power steering pump, alternator) and no cooling system at all.
The New York World's Fair opened in 1964 and closed in 1965.
I remember reading that when J Leno drove his turbine car it would melt the plastic bumpers of cars too close behind him at stop lights.
I thought Jay said it was his jet powered motorcycle that did that two cars parked too close behind him.
The 51 GM LeSabre is the only one worth tooling up and manufacturing today. Looks like a car.
I dunno, the Firebird II looks like they forgot to assemble half the bodywork...
Unique among this list is the Chrysler Turbine since they built more than one and even lent them out for real-world testing.
All these cars makes you feel you’re on Mars before it degraded to it’s current state…
Only the Cybertruck is as silly as these
Make America visionary again 😁
Alcune inguardabili, veramente improponibili
Where's our ages Harley Earl when electric cars need him the most
Want them all
Bonjour Robert . La seule voiture que je me rappelle est la Corvette parce qu' elle a été mis en production et disponuble au marché . Il y a aussi la transmission à boutons ; mon onckd Roméo possedait une Plymouth équipé dr ce type de transmission .
The 6 wheel ford was first shown at the 1962 World Fair in Seattle not New York. This car was only ever a 2-3 table model and never as a full size car. The red Lincoln Futura looks like a fiberglass recreation since the real car had chrome bumpers as well as the band of trim down the side. It was only red in the movie It stared with a kiss. It as originally a light metallic turquoise color. The Firebird ll had a titanium body, probably the first titanium car body. Better research and a computer voice would help this video.
Non computer voice you mean
0:06 The Cyclops
The one with the headlights in the middle is definitely weird.
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Só mesmo nos EUA !😮😮😮
How does the car in the thumbnail turn
The first one.
I think that the last car was introduced at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair & not the 1964 NYC World's Fair! "(Seattle-lit XXI)
yup, i rechecked that, you're right, thanks 👍
Can anyone explain what's going on at 3:44?
The last one looks like the car from the show thunderbirds.
yeah 😂, Most of them looks cartoony
My Ford Nucleon finally lost power and boy, the price of uranium sure has gone up since I filled up 5,000 miles ago!
That’s why I stockpile fissionable materials.
Henry was Harley Earl’s kid brother.
Batmobile!
are the diamond nuclear batteries safe enough to be able to be used to power a car, yet?
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❤❤👍👍👍🥂💫!!!
8:08, 1963 Ford Seattle-ite XXI.
XXI is the Roman numeral for 21, not 11.
11 would be XI .
Why do they refer the engine sizes in liters? That’s not how they were referred to in the 50’s and 60’s.
Where are these cars today?
The ones of today lack independence in design style really.
6:00 Can just see a mushroom cloud shooting up into the stratosphere when some poor chump rear-ends a Ford Nucleon with his 52 Buick. Widespread radiation poisoning thanks to the fallout.
TurboFlite is more yacht than a car. Chrysler Turbine Car is nice.
Lay saber?
Where’s the Brook Stevens Studebaker Scepter?
Isn’t it Seattle-lite 21 🤔 xx1
looks like all of them are straight from MAD MAGAZINE
I can just imagine the crash test results…. Especially when hitting a human! …yikes! Antiquated obsolescence…
Who's Henry Earle?
XXI is 21, not 11.
Harley Earl
Вы бы видели концепты авто ваз
Show us
I don’t know; was LSD a thing back then ?!
Ahhhh, excuse me. It's Ford Seattle-lite 21. XXI is twenty one in roman numerals not "the eleventh" nice short story over all.
Just push a button and the car practically drives itself. Yeah, right... oh wait, Tesla. I guess this is the future.
Это тот случай, когда фантазии художника - дизайнера, перекрывают весь здоавый смысл. Машина должна ездить и возить, а не выглядеть как бред алкаша, и не стоить как Бруклинский мост.
The bridge is not expensive as you think it is as a matter of fact I have it on sale this week for $10,000 are you interested?
Meet George Jetson!!! No thanks I'm busy
Esfuerzos por diseñar el más bello auto. Creo que solamente interesaba la espectacularidad del diseño y no la economía, comodidad, versatilidad, velocidad. Fue parte de la evolución automotriz.
Ok, if you want people to ACTUALLY READ, those 'Most Notable Features' in-boxs, common sense should tell you, to leave them up there, long enough, so normal reader's, can read them🤨!!! On the Ford La Tosca, I've would of NEVER KNOWN, that was just, a remote-control, model, if the last footage didn't have, the full-sized woman, standing next to it. "The GM Firebird ll, featured a vertical tail, replicating the wing that featured on space shuttles". SPACE SHUTTLES??? C'mon now, was the space shuttle out, in the 1950's😆⁉️ Informative, but dopely initiated.
These "informational videos" are not made by Americans, but from countries that barely speak English. They have to use AI voices because their real voices would give them away. I got suckered into this video, but will avoid this channel or any other with any "car" in the thumbnail that looks computer generated and with "RAREST" or something similar in the picture. I will not come back to this channel. XXI = "eleven", indeed.
Computer controlled? What have you seen the size of an IBM 360 from the 60s and while gas turbines were a bad idea nuclear powered car was just stupid even for a nonfunctional model
An IBM 360 is a digital computer. Analog computers--electrical and mechanical--have been around since WW2.
And the suicide steering is not allowed but rockets seems to be a theme at the time. Commencing countdown engines on check ignition and may God's love be with you? And hey it Jay hi Jay Leno take a memo! These cars are weerd now that its the future they all look alike so no design needed just move the chrome a bit!!😏
This is yesterdays news. These cars have been in so many videos that you need to erase this video and do another one that everyone hasn't seen a million times already Or at least change the title slightly to cars I, (The person in charge haven't seen.). Signed-Richard.
First time I’ve seen these, signed-Mike
Henry Earl? You mean Harley Earl? More AI misinformation.
La-Say-bur
AI narration is extremely annoying.
What does this have to do with A I ?
@@davidlawrence6089 LOTS. These "informational videos" are not made by Americans, but from countries that barely speak English. They have to use AI voices because their real voices would give them away. I got suckered into this video, but will avoid this channel or any other with any "car" in the thumbnail that looks computer generated and with "RAREST" or something similar in the picture. I will not come back to this channel. XXI = "eleven", indeed.
Yes they're from India and they're stealing our information every time we tag one of their thumbnails.
The '53 corvette does not belong on this list - not only not futuristic, but has a primitive heavy stovebolt strait 6 & 2 speed powerglide trans. Left off & #1 should be firebird III !
#2 should be firebird IV - for styling alone, tho it had no drivetrain.
Not to mention the corvette was fugly!
53 Corvette did not have the stove bolt six it has a blue flame six.
@@3RTracing Ok, but isn't that straight 6 also 190 !! lbs heavier than the late '60s 230 & 250 cube chevy straight 6?
Right the Firebird IV was a non-running mockup. With a slightly different paint job, it toured the auto show circuit a second time as the Buick Century Cruiser.
I'm pretty sure it's pro-nounced Lee-Sabre (sighs)
More errors than I can count on my fingers and toes. BTW Ford Seattleite: 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair NOT New York.
fallout cars
English please
Ёпт тить, да это космические корабли на колесах! Умели же делать что рот откроешь от удивления, а сегодня что на дорогах коробки да телеги примитивные.
The. Editor of this video. Should read the comments and take notes as to properly understand what it takes to. Do a proper job….
Chrysler Turbo-flight is 'aerodynamic'?? WTH?! NO! The front-end is a Turbulence DISASTER!! Really? Do You Not KNOW how Air Flows?
Cool cars. But disliked video due to AI voice mispronouncing words multiple times.
Tax write off for the car companies!!!!