@@docmccoy9813 yep. Take the Toyota emblems off my wife’s Venza I’d be hard pressed to pick it out of a half other makes that look almost identical. I’ll keep my old Alfa Romeos
No matter what brand you are loyal to you gotta admit that Mopar really understood the young testosterone crowd with their cars and advertising campaigns. That concept Cuda had _everything_ about 1970 down. The wheels, the slicks, the sidepipes, the rake, the painted scallops, the shaker hood... It really was Hot Wheels all grown up. It would have sold like _mad_ if it could have been made affordable enough. The taillights on that Ford Mirano made a lot of sense. What a great safety feature that really telegraphed what driver was doing to following traffic. Way, way ahead of its time.
In my opinion the Cuda was too rounded and bubbely as far as the sheetmetel went, the interior had real cheap and boring door panels etc, the other E body the MIGHTY DODGE CHALLENGER had great sharp body lines, more curb apeal and one of the best door panel and seats combos ever, the Challenger was the hottest looking of both Divisions, just look at the grill and tail lights on the 1971 Challenger no other manufactuer ever came close to that futureistic design.
@@lancelotlink3907 yes, I can dig it but dig this, I was never a Ford man but as far as auto sex appeal goes, nothing was cooler looking than the Shelby line of Mustangs, 20 feet of hood, a FAST BACK design that was almost flat, today I would cut em both off to have a Boss (any CID) yellow with black secondary paint! The very best Detroit design studio effort ever And I am not a Ford fan but those cars were the hottest! Now , as far as we go my fellow muscle car enthuseist(?) goes ....DODGE RULES OVER PLYMOUTH every time. But just for fun in 1968 my neighbor had a slingshot small block dragster, i was 13 at that time, he would take me to Cordoba drag way and the US 30 Dragway and to this day I can still see DANDY DICK LANDY in his Super Stock Dodge running the track with his open face helmet and a long cigar in his mouth. Them was the days! But for you my friend we also pitted next to the legendary HEMI UNDER GLASS Cuda.
My wife actually came up with that idea before Ford. That is how the universe works: once a thought is thunk, it floats around looking for mind that will make it concrete. Careful what U wish for folks....😁
I'll take the 70 mustang Milano the 64 banshee and the 70 rapid transit out of all these. The Milano looks totally badass, they need to build one for us today with a 428 cobra jet in it.
I always thought GM should have made Pontiac their performance brand. Most concept cars could have been made it to production. From big cars to small sports cars this could have worked but to many bean counters running the corp.
U R SO RIGHT, Bean counters running the show. Same went for Plymouth, Chrysler, Dodge. The Ram Charges designed and raced, the Scat Pack Studio made em sell (always look for the little Rumble Bee decale on the quarter glass) Dodge was my favorite but they got to expensive to find so I went back to next favorite, Poniiac where you could find good T/A s cheap until just a few years ago. Seems the old Vetts still havent gone up in price, if you even want one. Killing Pontiac was a fatal mistake for G M! Chevys were popular affordable cars as they were intended to be, Buick was legendary even Grand ma's Wildcat was beast like the Riveara but Pontiac ruled the G M corp. Except of course the Corvett which had some pathetic generations just like the Mustang did,.
I agree. Pontiac should have always been the "Well what about this?" division. They kind of did that with the Aztec, Lemans, and Vibe but never in a truly performance (power) way.
@@velocity5918 Oldsmobile was a brand that deserved to die. Chrysler, Cadillac, and Lincoln were luxury. Fiero was neat and like a Boxer or MR-2. The mid-engine Corvair only needed a brand change as the balance of a mid-engine avoided spinouts without deflating the front wheels.
The AutoZam Kei car from Japan is a 650CC 3-cylinder Suzuki gullwing door 2 seater mid-engine at 64 bhp. If you put a 1200 axle driven 4 cylinder water cooled BMW at 174 HP, or 1000CC Honda, or 750CC Honda, that would be a pocket rocket.
@@Douglas-yf6nb I don't think you mean Aztec. How about the Soltice instead? The Vibe did have a 195 hp six speed version starting in 2005 - the same engine/trans that Lotus used in their Elige, but way lighter. I have a 2003 Vibe as my daily driver. 225K miles and still going strong. Not exciting, but it still gets 32 mpg.
Yes, they did. 69 in 1969 only, to be exact, and I believe a few made it into Corvettes that year as well. RPO ZL1 had the COPO 9561 427 CID aluminum engine. I’ve seen 1 of the 2 garnet red Camaros. My brother restored it for a collector on the east coast back in the ‘90s. At the time, there was only 1 garnet red car believed to be produced which was in the Floyd Garrett collection. Upon making his way thru layers of repaints and verifying the paint code, my brother uncovered the 2nd known garnet red COPO 9561 ZL1 Camaro. It was part of the Dick Bridges collection and featured in one of the muscle magazines of the times. An incredible unexpected find!
My ex father in law had an emerald green '69 ZL1 collecting dust in his garage in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego. He moved to SD from N Hollywood due to health issues. He told me that the car used 4 tanks of gas which was hard to believe as it's only 125 miles. He passed away back in 2008 and his widow sold the car along with his professional tools for about $100k. It was a very easy resto.. just needed freshening up. Can only imagine what it's worth today..
It truly is a shame that magnificent designs like these never show up on the road and so often we end up with boring, nondescript, ho-hum production models.
and sometimes, a car company goes ALL OUT, and produces a phenomenal work of art and driving machine, like mazda did with their 3rd gen RX-7, and sold very very very few, even though the car out-competed cars 3 or 4 times its price, and with gorgeous, timeless, classic good looks to boot.
I am so tired of people’s obsession with trucks and suvs I mean most of these suvs can’t even go off-road and they look so ugly, most of them don’t even have as much space as full size sedans
Best looking pony car on this list in my opinion. I had a 69 AMX which bears a little resemblance to the rear quarters of this car. Had they gone with this design though, I'm sure it would have been a huge hit! Especially that deep plumb color!
The story behind the king Cobra is interesting. After Mopar debuted the winged warriors in nascar Ford and GM knew they had to do something to compete. Ford decided if you can't beat them then join them and developed the king Cobra. But at GM they took a different path and since the nascar was mainly run by former GM guys they pressured them to make aero cars illegal. It's things like that that makes me hate nascar and GM not to mention their cars are rolling scrap piles
One of the 427 camaros race in Australia by Bob jane, in the early 70s, he brought in 2; one manual the other auto, the manual race car still exist today
If you are racing a rear drive automatic. It needs to act exactly the same as a stick shift. A friend of mine has one of each. Guess which one he lost control of left the road and tore up the under carriage? Oh and I have never had automatic engine last as long as a stick. The automatic adds heat to the engine and worsa vicsa.
I actually pulled the gauges out of a factory S&H replica Gran Torino back around 2010. I was blown away that it was in a junkyard and had no idea that it was factory ordered like that. Looked great too. I modified the gauges and used them as working gauges in my Chevy Van for a few years before switching them out and putting them up in a box for later.
Also a lot of the Milano styling cues wound up on the 1972 Australian Ford Falcon XA GT coupe including Naca scoops and fender scoops. Also the fast back design.
Selling specially made cars wasn't how dealers made their money. They would pre-order plenty of 'almost as good' cars, because they knew most drivers couldn't drive the top of the line hemi engined cars easily on the street. So while you read about the Hemi Cuda, what you would find on the lot were 440 tri-power wedge engines. NO HEMIS.
Had em all 440 Challengers, 454 Stingrays, 383 Magnum Charger, 340 DODGE DART SWINGER, 1973 SUPER DUTY 455 T/A , BUT THE ONE I STILL MISS THE MOST ...2002 WS6 PONTIAC TRANS AM, UNBELIVEABLE QUALITY AND ON DEMAND POWER, BEST GM EVER! Stupid move to cancel out Pontiac Division but not keep the greatest muscle car ever in production, the WIDE TRACK PONTIAC FIREBIRD WS6 TRANS AM!
@@SayAhh SORRY, I can't answer that, I personally don't acknowlefge any of the "rebirth"or retro cars, not even the Hell Cat new teckknoledgy is great no doubt, super torgue and hp at lower rpms is something to respect! I'm stuck in the 70's still drive my 76 Silver T/A that is mint restored by me, but I did pull the 400 and built a low end torgue 455, got the Borg Warner rock crusher 4-speed with the Hurst shift but updated the car with 1981 interior, disk brake rear, 2nd gen Snow Flake wheels and new issue FIRESTONE WIDE OVAL meats, so it is original but what wouild have been called future dealership installed parts replacements or upgrades, excepting the 455 of course. Put on the Ram AIR 3 aluminum exhaust manifolds, 2 1/2" stainless steel exhaust, Hays trans scatter shield and 2 drive shaft loops for saftey. New rebuilt 160 mph full gauge cluster, Delco Remmy 8- track with the usual C D player mounted in the console map pocket, one of the rare cars ordered with the Silver Leaf TRANS AM decal installed on upper windshield interior. 600 miles on new engine. Going to sell thru broker on world wide market, we are asking a fair $62,000.00. No accident or rust history, super nice collector/ driver unit. The car is of course Silver. Send a buyer we pay a finders commisson. Live in Costa Rica now and this car is my final fairwell to my years of great cars. Car is located in Biloxi Ms. It's funny but my favorite car down here is my mint cond. 2006 Silver Nissan 350Z, another great sought after sports car, Central America is more Japanize cars than any other but we do have a lot of Dodge Trucks because the are tough enough to hold up here like we say down here "Never bring a Chevrolet to Central America" that brand is viewed as weak junk down here.
I was a mere child by the end of the 70s but, coming from a poor family, the late 80s and early 90s were fairly kind to me. I, at least, was privileged to have driven at least half of those actual production cars. The cheaper half of course, lol.
As a child of the 70's my self in 83 when I could drive all of these cars were dirt cheap and owned many of them .My first car was a 71 Deamon duster I got for 100.00 bucks1983 in primer and a new exhaust in the back seat. 360 and she was fun at 16 it was too much of a car for me, now I wish I had 1/2 of the cars I have owned over the decades. Edit the car had to be sold to pay fines LOL
The 60's and 70's production lineup that did get produced was adequate enough to keep people dreaming of the era, being older I got to drive or ride in most versions of muscle cars and whereas these people talked down the AMC Gremlin and admittedly it was not a pretty car but You could order it from the factory with a 401 cubic inch big block and a 4spd it was a monster of a car.
You could order it, but good luck in getting one. The wait list for performance special orders was long, plus add in the special 'dealer mark up' fees to get those cars. Most buyers couldn't afford to wait several months plus pay UP FRONT for the special dealer fees for those cars.
Lots of GM representation in this group of concepts, so 2 more to add in. The Hurricane, GTR X and EFIJ, fully functional, built on very low budgets and stunning. . As for the ones shown, well the AMC takes my vote. Thanks
AMX 3 was a very cool concept. I immediately, saw resemblance to the Pantera. Some great concepts featured here. But why did manufacturers start making larger vehicles in the first place?? Had they kept making relatively smaller vehicles, maybe there wouldn't have been such an issue with oil and fuel shortages in the 70's.
It hasn't stopped. Cars are still getting bigger and heavier today. Compare a modern Corolla to a 1970's Corolla. It's really about marketing. If you have a 5 year old Corolla, why would you buy a new one if it didn't offer some real advantages? But if it has more legroom in the back and more luggage space...
A Friend of mine had a "Reverse" Starsky & Hutch-mobile. His was Factory White with a Red Stripe (rather than Red with the white stripe) that he got from his Brother in Law. His Brother In Law was a Police Officer down in Houston who would buy a new vehicle, keep it for a couple of months, then get Rid of it. So my Friend's had very little miles/ no body damage/ and was pretty much like it came, straight from the Factory. WE, however, put a LOT of miles on it, LOL!
I wasn't aware of the Mustang Milano but good God that may be one of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen and I think it's dethroned the GT40 as the best looking thing Ford has ever made in my book.
Those taillight features based off Ford Milano changing color to green to signify the car accelerating...is truly a masterpiece design. Wish some performance muscle car took notes and adopted this fantastic feature! 😎
I remember in the 80s there was a prototype of a chevrolet minivan that could be 2 in 1 because it was a small car and joining as a minivan was a change for our times ahead of the future
I can tell you where one of the ZL-1 Camaros resides. How many were made? No idea. One day I was cruising South Park in the south end of Pittsburgh, Pa. I noticed a silver 1969 Camaro that was a little bit "different" from other Camaros. This one had dog dish hubcaps, gray steel wheels, black interior and a 4 speed. The guy was parked by the ice skating rink there and I went over to the car. The emblems on the front fender said '427' and I was asking him about the car. He got around to opening the hood and there it was. The all-aluminum, big block 427 engine. It idled like it had a timing problem. He said that's the cam that makes it sound like that. Didn't know that much about cars back then. I was 18 at the time which would have been the year 1980. True story.
Some really cool designs! As far as concept cars fleshing out as production vehicles: It seemed Dodge started a trend of "concept as production precursor" after their Viper was put in production nearly identical to the concept, which brought A LOT of visibility to the brand.
Instead of making new designs, these auto manufacturers should just go back to these concepts and make them a reality. More appealing and impressive than any new designs, for sure. It also answers the question when looking back at Euro vs American cars of that era and wondering, why can't we make elegant/fast/unique looking cars? Turns out we can, just didn't. Really sucks that NASCAR listened to GM whining and shutdown the horsepower wars--they were really making American muscle cars amazing. That plus gov't emissions crap, and stupid insurance. Life ruiners! Killers of the American way.
Asymetric design can work so well and I wish it was played with more. The El Gato fuel cap is pretty cool. I think it also doubles as the reverse as well.
All these exotic Corvettes. The thing that made the Corvette great was it had a production engine, production transmission, great design, easy to upgrade, not too expensive. So the average man with a vocation could afford it, etc. Now it's a super car and it's out of the reach of most people.
Well the Milano wouldve been an awesome production car for sure..but as bloated as the 71-73 Mustangs were, they were still downright cool. The 71 year had some fast examples with the 351 Boss and the HO for 72 I believe. If a regular Mach had a 429 cobrajet, it was no slouch either..
9 Looks smazong! 8 The C3 Corvette is really nice. 6 Beautiful! The Pantera was cheaper!? 5 Very cool. Astonishing colour! 4 Very nice, but so is the C3
Just me being pedantic a bit, but the Corvair Concept car looks like it had the twin-turbo 6 cylinder engine in it, which should be the Corsa engine, which was rated from 150hp to 180hp depending on options, and your comment about the Ford King Cobra... I believe you're looking for "amalgamation" (the action, process, or result of combining or uniting) vs. halmagamation, which I've never heard before and can't find a definition for. Otherwise, it's a shame some of these designs never made it to production.
The word you're looking for is Homologation. It refers to sanctioning bodies (nascar in this case) requiring the auto maker to sell street versions of their race cars.
In today’s world with manufacturing abilities, someone should really take one of these or a couple of these, and actually make them off their base models
There's been an effort to bring a fiberglass reproduction AMX/3 into reality. Last I heard they were at the point of getting a transaxle adapted to fit the AMC block.
IMHO...The Best Looking AMC car they made was the AMX..69 -70..it didn't have or need the flared fenders. Oh to go back in time with an armor truck full of gold...buy some of them classics before they even got 10 miles put on them...and bring them back to...me...I mean, to 2023 and the world...yeah...sure...why not? :D (Y)
Ford's Cougar II was a beautiful little fastback coupe based on the AC Shelby Cobra. It looked a bit like a slightly shrunken Corvette. Unfortunately, only the name made it to a production model.
What I find truly sad is that alota these car designs are better than what we are seeing even now.😥
You just read my mind. Now car means SUV and coupes and sedans are rarities
Truth brother.
@@docmccoy9813 yep. Take the Toyota emblems off my wife’s Venza I’d be hard pressed to pick it out of a half other makes that look almost identical. I’ll keep my old Alfa Romeos
The 5 mph bumper is what started the downfall of good looking American cars and the fuel crisis was the K.O.
Amen!
AMC's AMX/3 should have been produced. I loved my three Javelins ,(68, 70 and 71) and 68 AMX. I'm still an AMC enthusiast, decades later
My bucket list car... check out the Prestone Javelin that was built...insane!!!!
Nice first name you have...😉
I love the "oddballs".
Biggest mistake they made. Not having produced it was, in the end, the reason for their demise.
Love the El Gato! Such a beautiful, minimalistic car.
It's a shame the AMX 3 was never produced in numbers. My God it's a beautifully designed car... WOW!
Dick Teague was a design genius
Wow. That AMX3 looks awesome, a real beauty. What a missed oportunity.. Love the El Gato! Such a beautiful, minimalistic car..
that side line on that AMX 3 is peak auto styling. Stunning.
No matter what brand you are loyal to you gotta admit that Mopar really understood the young testosterone crowd with their cars and advertising campaigns. That concept Cuda had _everything_ about 1970 down. The wheels, the slicks, the sidepipes, the rake, the painted scallops, the shaker hood... It really was Hot Wheels all grown up. It would have sold like _mad_ if it could have been made affordable enough.
The taillights on that Ford Mirano made a lot of sense. What a great safety feature that really telegraphed what driver was doing to following traffic. Way, way ahead of its time.
In my opinion the Cuda was too rounded and bubbely as far as the sheetmetel went, the interior had real cheap and boring door panels etc, the other E body the MIGHTY DODGE CHALLENGER had great sharp body lines, more curb apeal and one of the best door panel and seats combos ever, the Challenger was the hottest looking of both Divisions, just look at the grill and tail lights on the 1971 Challenger no other manufactuer ever came close to that futureistic design.
Ngl I want those taillights on new cars too, so many years ago and we STILL only have stoplights and reverse. Sigh
@@velocity5918 I think the Cuda was much better looking. The Challenger had a longer wheel base and body and looked less clean to me.
@@lancelotlink3907 yes, I can dig it but dig this, I was never a Ford man but as far as auto sex appeal goes, nothing was cooler looking than the Shelby line of Mustangs, 20 feet of hood, a FAST BACK design that was almost flat, today I would cut em both off to have a Boss (any CID) yellow with black secondary paint! The very best Detroit design studio effort ever And I am not a Ford fan but those cars were the hottest! Now , as far as we go my fellow muscle car enthuseist(?) goes ....DODGE RULES OVER PLYMOUTH every time. But just for fun in 1968 my neighbor had a slingshot small block dragster, i was 13 at that time, he would take me to Cordoba drag way and the US 30 Dragway and to this day I can still see DANDY DICK LANDY in his Super Stock Dodge running the track with his open face helmet and a long cigar in his mouth. Them was the days! But for you my friend we also pitted next to the legendary HEMI UNDER GLASS Cuda.
My wife actually came up with that idea before Ford. That is how the universe works: once a thought is thunk, it floats around looking for mind that will make it concrete. Careful what U wish for folks....😁
I'll take the 70 mustang Milano the 64 banshee and the 70 rapid transit out of all these. The Milano looks totally badass, they need to build one for us today with a 428 cobra jet in it.
Yes, that is the best-looking one in my opinion. Love to drive that. Cars were so cool back then.
That AMX-3 is a work of art
I always thought GM should have made Pontiac their performance brand. Most concept cars could have been made it to production. From big cars to small sports cars this could have worked but to many bean counters running the corp.
U R SO RIGHT, Bean counters running the show. Same went for Plymouth, Chrysler, Dodge. The Ram Charges designed and raced, the Scat Pack Studio made em sell (always look for the little Rumble Bee decale on the quarter glass) Dodge was my favorite but they got to expensive to find so I went back to next favorite, Poniiac where you could find good T/A s cheap until just a few years ago. Seems the old Vetts still havent gone up in price, if you even want one. Killing Pontiac was a fatal mistake for G M! Chevys were popular affordable cars as they were intended to be, Buick was legendary even Grand ma's Wildcat was beast like the Riveara but Pontiac ruled the G M corp. Except of course the Corvett which had some pathetic generations just like the Mustang did,.
I agree. Pontiac should have always been the "Well what about this?" division. They kind of did that with the Aztec, Lemans, and Vibe but never in a truly performance (power) way.
@@velocity5918 Oldsmobile was a brand that deserved to die. Chrysler, Cadillac, and Lincoln were luxury. Fiero was neat and like a Boxer or MR-2. The mid-engine Corvair only needed a brand change as the balance of a mid-engine avoided spinouts without deflating the front wheels.
The AutoZam Kei car from Japan is a 650CC 3-cylinder Suzuki gullwing door 2 seater mid-engine at 64 bhp. If you put a 1200 axle driven 4 cylinder water cooled BMW at 174 HP, or 1000CC Honda, or 750CC Honda, that would be a pocket rocket.
@@Douglas-yf6nb I don't think you mean Aztec. How about the Soltice instead? The Vibe did have a 195 hp six speed version starting in 2005 - the same engine/trans that Lotus used in their Elige, but way lighter. I have a 2003 Vibe as my daily driver. 225K miles and still going strong. Not exciting, but it still gets 32 mpg.
Wow. That AMX3 looks awesome, a real beauty. What a missed oportunity.
@ 9:03... that Roadrunner looks sick.They should have made *THAT* a production model.
Chevy made quite a few all aluminum 427 camaros in 69 for their super stock drag race teams
Yes, they did. 69 in 1969 only, to be exact, and I believe a few made it into Corvettes that year as well. RPO ZL1 had the COPO 9561 427 CID aluminum engine. I’ve seen 1 of the 2 garnet red Camaros. My brother restored it for a collector on the east coast back in the ‘90s. At the time, there was only 1 garnet red car believed to be produced which was in the Floyd Garrett collection. Upon making his way thru layers of repaints and verifying the paint code, my brother uncovered the 2nd known garnet red COPO 9561 ZL1 Camaro. It was part of the Dick Bridges collection and featured in one of the muscle magazines of the times. An incredible unexpected find!
My ex father in law had an emerald green '69 ZL1 collecting dust in his garage in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego. He moved to SD from N Hollywood due to health issues. He told me that the car used 4 tanks of gas which was hard to believe as it's only 125 miles. He passed away back in 2008 and his widow sold the car along with his professional tools for about $100k. It was a very easy resto.. just needed freshening up. Can only imagine what it's worth today..
It truly is a shame that magnificent designs like these never show up on the road and so often we end up with boring, nondescript, ho-hum production models.
and sometimes, a car company goes ALL OUT, and produces a phenomenal work of art and driving machine, like mazda did with their 3rd gen RX-7, and sold very very very few, even though the car out-competed cars 3 or 4 times its price, and with gorgeous, timeless, classic good looks to boot.
Collectors scooped up the best cars, as investments, and hid them away in garages, never to see the light of day.
At least we are looking at what we use to call stylish. Now all we have are stupid trucks and SUVs!
I am so tired of people’s obsession with trucks and suvs I mean most of these suvs can’t even go off-road and they look so ugly, most of them don’t even have as much space as full size sedans
Whirlpools with wheels John.
Check out the new chevelle ss 70 and the new Buick skylark. Totally badass!
Here in oz its spastic plastic.
I really hope this obsession with trucks, SUVs and crossovers will die out. It's just plain stupidity.
The Mustang Milano looks like a Challenger.
Especially from the back .
It does😂
Eeehhuuhh no.
Best looking pony car on this list in my opinion. I had a 69 AMX which bears a little resemblance to the rear quarters of this car.
Had they gone with this design though, I'm sure it would have been a huge hit! Especially that deep plumb color!
Some of these cars looks so good, way ahead of its time, much better than today's versions
Im a mopar guy but that AMX 3 , Pontiac Banshee and the Ford King Cobra were my favorites .
The story behind the king Cobra is interesting. After Mopar debuted the winged warriors in nascar Ford and GM knew they had to do something to compete. Ford decided if you can't beat them then join them and developed the king Cobra. But at GM they took a different path and since the nascar was mainly run by former GM guys they pressured them to make aero cars illegal. It's things like that that makes me hate nascar and GM not to mention their cars are rolling scrap piles
The Mercury El Gato and Mustang Milano both look killer!
One of the 427 camaros race in Australia by Bob jane, in the early 70s, he brought in 2; one manual the other auto, the manual race car still exist today
If you are racing a rear drive automatic. It needs to act exactly the same as a stick shift. A friend of mine has one of each.
Guess which one he lost control of left the road and tore up the under carriage?
Oh and I have never had automatic engine last as long as a stick. The automatic adds heat to the engine and worsa vicsa.
AMX 3 and the show Baracuda are my favorites. Really loved the Carman Ghia too!
I actually pulled the gauges out of a factory S&H replica Gran Torino back around 2010. I was blown away that it was in a junkyard and had no idea that it was factory ordered like that. Looked great too. I modified the gauges and used them as working gauges in my Chevy Van for a few years before switching them out and putting them up in a box for later.
Damn, that car is worth so much
The Milano front fenders and hood were directly used for the 1969 Shelby production (but with a different grille and headlights).
Also a lot of the Milano styling cues wound up on the 1972 Australian Ford Falcon XA GT coupe including Naca scoops and fender scoops. Also the fast back design.
That Mustang Milano would have been an instant classic!
It’s a massive shame that the Rapid Transit cars were never mass produced, that black and gold roadrunner was the bomb
Selling specially made cars wasn't how dealers made their money. They would pre-order plenty of 'almost as good' cars, because they knew most drivers couldn't drive the top of the line hemi engined cars easily on the street. So while you read about the Hemi Cuda, what you would find on the lot were 440 tri-power wedge engines. NO HEMIS.
0:42 That concept Corvette is gorgeous.
That's a dream car there.
They could make these now and there would be a stampede to buy them. I’d sell my soul for a Purple El Gato, a AMX/3 or a Milano with White Interior, 🤤
AMX 3 you know, it's also known as the "SPEEDRACER" cartoon car? I can't believe I'm actually looking at the real life equivalent of it!🎉
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing this 😊
Great video. Thank you for making it.
Had em all 440 Challengers, 454 Stingrays, 383 Magnum Charger, 340 DODGE DART SWINGER, 1973 SUPER DUTY 455 T/A , BUT THE ONE I STILL MISS THE MOST ...2002 WS6 PONTIAC TRANS AM, UNBELIVEABLE QUALITY AND ON DEMAND POWER, BEST GM EVER! Stupid move to cancel out Pontiac Division but not keep the greatest muscle car ever in production, the WIDE TRACK PONTIAC FIREBIRD WS6 TRANS AM!
Were any of the rebadged Holdens brought over as Pontiacs or Chevys (GTO, G8, SS) faster than that Trans Am?
@@SayAhh SORRY, I can't answer that, I personally don't acknowlefge any of the "rebirth"or retro cars, not even the Hell Cat new teckknoledgy is great no doubt, super torgue and hp at lower rpms is something to respect! I'm stuck in the 70's still drive my 76 Silver T/A that is mint restored by me, but I did pull the 400 and built a low end torgue 455, got the Borg Warner rock crusher 4-speed with the Hurst shift but updated the car with 1981 interior, disk brake rear, 2nd gen Snow Flake wheels and new issue FIRESTONE WIDE OVAL meats, so it is original but what wouild have been called future dealership installed parts replacements or upgrades, excepting the 455 of course. Put on the Ram AIR 3 aluminum exhaust manifolds, 2 1/2" stainless steel exhaust, Hays trans scatter shield and 2 drive shaft loops for saftey. New rebuilt 160 mph full gauge cluster, Delco Remmy 8- track with the usual C D player mounted in the console map pocket, one of the rare cars ordered with the Silver Leaf TRANS AM decal installed on upper windshield interior. 600 miles on new engine. Going to sell thru broker on world wide market, we are asking a fair $62,000.00. No accident or rust history, super nice collector/ driver unit. The car is of course Silver. Send a buyer we pay a finders commisson. Live in Costa Rica now and this car is my final fairwell to my years of great cars. Car is located in Biloxi Ms. It's funny but my favorite car down here is my mint cond. 2006 Silver Nissan 350Z, another great sought after sports car, Central America is more Japanize cars than any other but we do have a lot of Dodge Trucks because the are tough enough to hold up here like we say down here "Never bring a Chevrolet to Central America" that brand is viewed as weak junk down here.
nice concept cars...especially the mustang mach 2 and AMC AMX iii
I was a mere child by the end of the 70s but, coming from a poor family, the late 80s and early 90s were fairly kind to me. I, at least, was privileged to have driven at least half of those actual production cars. The cheaper half of course, lol.
As a child of the 70's my self in 83 when I could drive all of these cars were dirt cheap and owned many of them .My first car was a 71 Deamon duster I got for 100.00 bucks1983 in primer and a new exhaust in the back seat. 360 and she was fun at 16 it was too much of a car for me, now I wish I had 1/2 of the cars I have owned over the decades. Edit the car had to be sold to pay fines LOL
The 60's and 70's production lineup that did get produced was adequate enough to keep people dreaming of the era, being older I got to drive or ride in most versions of muscle cars and whereas these people talked down the AMC Gremlin and admittedly it was not a pretty car but You could order it from the factory with a 401 cubic inch big block and a 4spd it was a monster of a car.
You could order it, but good luck in getting one. The wait list for performance special orders was long, plus add in the special 'dealer mark up' fees to get those cars. Most buyers couldn't afford to wait several months plus pay UP FRONT for the special dealer fees for those cars.
AMX3 ! Wow ! Someone should make that
I feel all these beautiful & cool concept cars MUST go into immediate production!!
You out out a great video here. I have never seen over half these cars before. Well done!
Thank you very much!
Lots of GM representation in this group of concepts, so 2 more to add in. The Hurricane, GTR X and EFIJ, fully functional, built on very low budgets and stunning. . As for the ones shown, well the AMC takes my vote. Thanks
I actually got to see it amx3 when I was very young and I fell in love with that body style! Thank you so much for the video
My God all these Concept Corvettes Looked AMAZING
Great video. Thanks!
Big mistake by AMC not to move forward with the AMX/3. That was a cool looking car!
The AMX/3, Mustang Milano and Pontiac Banshee, should be brought back to life.
AMX 3 was a very cool concept. I immediately, saw resemblance to the Pantera. Some great concepts featured here. But why did manufacturers start making larger vehicles in the first place?? Had they kept making relatively smaller vehicles, maybe there wouldn't have been such an issue with oil and fuel shortages in the 70's.
Yep. My father and uncle were shaking their heads at those boats.
It hasn't stopped. Cars are still getting bigger and heavier today. Compare a modern Corolla to a 1970's Corolla.
It's really about marketing. If you have a 5 year old Corolla, why would you buy a new one if it didn't offer some real advantages?
But if it has more legroom in the back and more luggage space...
Maybe a little lamborghini huracan 😮
Reading my mind. Pantera.
The vehicles needed added weight to go with the added horsepower. Gas was 28-32 cents.
Awesome assessment! Thank you!
A Friend of mine had a "Reverse" Starsky & Hutch-mobile. His was Factory White with a Red Stripe (rather than Red with the white stripe) that he got from his Brother in Law. His Brother In Law was a Police Officer down in Houston who would buy a new vehicle, keep it for a couple of months, then get Rid of it. So my Friend's had very little miles/ no body damage/ and was pretty much like it came, straight from the Factory. WE, however, put a LOT of miles on it, LOL!
In my hometown, the Truant Officer had the full Starsky & Hutch Grand Torino...
The Milano was the biggest winner from my point of view. It's a pity the Milan looked nothing like it.
I wasn't aware of the Mustang Milano but good God that may be one of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen and I think it's dethroned the GT40 as the best looking thing Ford has ever made in my book.
Those taillight features based off Ford Milano changing color to green to signify the car accelerating...is truly a masterpiece design. Wish some performance muscle car took notes and adopted this fantastic feature! 😎
Think maybe the NTSB might have had something to do with quashing taillights that could operate like that? Me thinks maybe so 😅
Some of these concept cars need to be brought back into production.
They made a large undrivable Ford Seattle XXI car for a movie called Year: 1999 AD.
The craziest thing is that most cars actually looked at least relatively close to their concepts back then.. Now none of that happens.
I remember in the 80s there was a prototype of a chevrolet minivan that could be 2 in 1 because it was a small car and joining as a minivan was a change for our times ahead of the future
The Mustang Milano looks like a cross between a '73 Falcon XB, and, a '71 Challenger.
Love concept cars. Thought I had seen'em all, but you showed me the ones I missed. Only recognized two.
AMC should still be making cars they made the best American cars ever
first video of your's i seen, and i'm totally on board; these were some super sick whips, thanks for sharing 🙏👹🖤
I can tell you where one of the ZL-1 Camaros resides. How many were made? No idea. One day I was cruising South Park in the south end of Pittsburgh, Pa. I noticed a silver 1969 Camaro that was a little bit "different" from other Camaros. This one had dog dish hubcaps, gray steel wheels, black interior and a 4 speed.
The guy was parked by the ice skating rink there and I went over to the car. The emblems on the front fender said '427' and I was asking him about the car. He got around to opening the hood and there it was. The all-aluminum, big block 427 engine. It idled like it had a timing problem. He said that's the cam that makes it sound like that. Didn't know that much about cars back then. I was 18 at the time which would have been the year 1980. True story.
Big Mistake not to produce the El Gato and the AMX/3. What nice looking Cars
Anyone here who knows Hot Wheels, yall know that 62 Corvair had to have been a heavy influence on the Twin Mill.
I grew up in Nowheresville, Missington and a neighbor owned a Starsky and Hutch Torino 10:31 More weird is that he purchased it used.
Nice video. Thank you. I am watching you from Russia
Damn!
That El Gato!
That was one fantastic looking set of wheels.
8:35 Top right... The front end, sure looks like a Capri.
I have pics of my mother in the Aero Vette. It was on display at the GMAD Fremont plant and the car was right outside her office window.
Some really cool designs! As far as concept cars fleshing out as production vehicles: It seemed Dodge started a trend of "concept as production precursor" after their Viper was put in production nearly identical to the concept, which brought A LOT of visibility to the brand.
Here's one for you guys look at some of them concept cars they just showed and they used them a cartoon and a movie called Speed Racer
dude the mercury el gato such a sick shape loving it
I rode in a Chrysler Turbine, at the 1964-5 worlds Fair. My neighbor’s father, ran the Exhibit, as in ceo.
Instead of making new designs, these auto manufacturers should just go back to these concepts and make them a reality. More appealing and impressive than any new designs, for sure. It also answers the question when looking back at Euro vs American cars of that era and wondering, why can't we make elegant/fast/unique looking cars? Turns out we can, just didn't. Really sucks that NASCAR listened to GM whining and shutdown the horsepower wars--they were really making American muscle cars amazing. That plus gov't emissions crap, and stupid insurance. Life ruiners! Killers of the American way.
Asymetric design can work so well and I wish it was played with more. The El Gato fuel cap is pretty cool. I think it also doubles as the reverse as well.
I'm sure some concepts wouldn't pass the ever increasing crash impact regulations that were being implemented in that era. "I like the 71 Mach 1 XD "
I have a 71 mustang it's a great car but it has the 6cyl and three speed!!!
All these exotic Corvettes. The thing that made the Corvette great was it had a production engine, production transmission, great design, easy to upgrade, not too expensive. So the average man with a vocation could afford it, etc. Now it's a super car and it's out of the reach of most people.
Well the Milano wouldve been an awesome production car for sure..but as bloated as the 71-73 Mustangs were, they were still downright cool. The 71 year had some fast examples with the 351 Boss and the HO for 72 I believe. If a regular Mach had a 429 cobrajet, it was no slouch either..
The 71-73 Mustangs are my favorite body style of Mustang.
Excellent video. Neat to see all those very interesting cars!
9 Looks smazong!
8 The C3 Corvette is really nice.
6 Beautiful! The Pantera was cheaper!?
5 Very cool. Astonishing colour!
4 Very nice, but so is the C3
Just me being pedantic a bit, but the Corvair Concept car looks like it had the twin-turbo 6 cylinder engine in it, which should be the Corsa engine, which was rated from 150hp to 180hp depending on options, and your comment about the Ford King Cobra... I believe you're looking for "amalgamation" (the action, process, or result of combining or uniting) vs. halmagamation, which I've never heard before and can't find a definition for. Otherwise, it's a shame some of these designs never made it to production.
The word you're looking for is Homologation. It refers to sanctioning bodies (nascar in this case) requiring the auto maker to sell street versions of their race cars.
In today’s world with manufacturing abilities, someone should really take one of these or a couple of these, and actually make them off their base models
Man, the AMX 3 could've been such beautiful car, if it was produced... Such a shame it wasn't...
00:49 falcon wing doors 😂
Can we just go back to this era, regarding automotive design?
Im rock hard from these bodies
Very cool video 📹! I appreciate the hard work!..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 👋🤠
If AMC would have came out with those cars and not had a issues with the pacer. They might be still around.
There's been an effort to bring a fiberglass reproduction AMX/3 into reality. Last I heard they were at the point of getting a transaxle adapted to fit the AMC block.
IMHO...The Best Looking AMC car they made was the AMX..69 -70..it didn't have or need the flared fenders.
Oh to go back in time with an armor truck full of gold...buy some of them classics before they even got 10 miles put on them...and bring them back to...me...I mean, to 2023 and the world...yeah...sure...why not?
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There is a Ford King Cobra at the savoy auto museum in Cartersville, ga. It’s a pretty cool car to see!
the "el gato" looks wonderfull
i like that Chevrolet XP-882 Aerovet. where is that car today they have built ? they should have produced that model !
One of the Rapid Transit concept cars just sold at a Barrett Jackson auction for 2.5 million.
My favorite from this time was the Mercury Cougar II, a two-seater sports coupe.
Ford's Cougar II was a beautiful little fastback coupe based on the AC Shelby Cobra. It looked a bit like a slightly shrunken Corvette. Unfortunately, only the name made it to a production model.
That Corvair Monza GT was super cool!
The El Gato and Milano are real beauties!
Its crazy to see so many cool designs get turned into turds and released. I'm like WHAT are you thinking? >.
Fantastic video!!!
Glad you liked it!
Wow, that Mustang Milano is just perfection. …..Well, to me anyway.
Imagine being one of the guys designing and building these concepts, only to have them virtually ignored by the the production group. 😢😢😢
70 Mustang Milano ya bayıldım..keşke olduğu gibi üretilseymiş..Bugün bile üretilebilir bence..
One thing is....they weren't afraid of COLORS, unlike today!!!!!
Look at any shopping mall parking lot from a sky view today. It’s like looking at a gray scale.
You know, the AMX3 looks SO SIMILAR to Speed Racers Mark 4 . . Probably because it’s in the similar development time though
Great vid and nice bits of humor!
AMX 3 what a beautiful car