3 Most Secret Cars! You Won't Believe Exist!

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  • @DavidSmith-fs4nt
    @DavidSmith-fs4nt 5 месяцев назад +21

    In 1957, my parents purchased a new '57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser station wagon. My mom later told me it cost $5K. Back then, that was a lot of money for a car. It was red/white and had the 312 Y block with a 4 barrel carburetor. It made several vacation trips to Virginia Beach and Daytona. Also, it pulled our boat to the lake multiple times. It had about 400K on the odometer when my dad traded it in '65. Dad did partial overhauls in '61 and '64 on it. There were 9 kids in our family, and my mom had a lead foot, so that car took a beating, but kept on going. Loved that car.

    • @BlairAir
      @BlairAir 5 месяцев назад +4

      Sounds like fond memories. I think the $5k price was misremembered though.. Cadillac was 4600, Lincoln $3900 at that time. Still, I'm sure it was loved by all your family!

    • @BackSeatHump
      @BackSeatHump 5 месяцев назад +3

      I had one myself, a two-door nomad-style sweeping pillar roof line. Just like yours, it was red/white two tone with the 312 Y block and 4 bbl. carb. and a push-button automatic transmission. Nice lines but it looked like it weighed 300 tons.

    • @jimmieroan9881
      @jimmieroan9881 4 месяца назад +2

      sometime over the years we all get a little confused, i lived through these years as a complete car nut and owned lots of the cars we see in magazines and videos, the turnpike cruiser was only offered in 2dr and 4dr models, no wagons, a few convertibles in 57 only. the only engine offered in 57 was actually a yblock but it was 368 cu in, built for the lincoln and mercury division, the rest were the MEL engines 383 ci and 430 ci, both offered in various hp ratings. the only trans offered was a 3 spd mercomatic, in 57 it was a push button on the steering wheel, my 58 was also on the wheel but i heard later versions were regular column shift. a very rare option was a super marauder 430 ci, with three 2 barrel carbs and a distinctive exhaust system, very modern looking and pretty hot looking

    • @mark.victorbrown849
      @mark.victorbrown849 4 месяца назад

      Gotta wonder if it is still burning down the highway today, I too remember these cars 👍🏻

    • @kchmn
      @kchmn 3 месяца назад

      @@jimmieroan9881 Actually the 383 and 430 engines came out in 1958, the pushbutton trans controls were on the dash in a pod not in the steering wheel, you're thinking Edsel on that. The 383 with its 3.3 stroke and 4.3 bore was a much higher revving engine than the 430, and would outrun all but the Super Marauder. I raced a 383 Marauder for many years back in the day! They were almost bulletproof too!

  • @donmebius119
    @donmebius119 5 месяцев назад +14

    It would have been a great addition to this video to have added the 1969 American Motors AMX3. The difference with it to these was that it was intended to be produced, although only 6 were built. Mid-engined, running 170 mph at the Turin speedway, and absolutely GORGEOUS!!!

    • @lancerevell5979
      @lancerevell5979 4 месяца назад +3

      One of my alltime favorite cars. I owned a 1968 AMX, 1968 Javelin and 1970 Javelin. Love the AMC pony cars. 😊

  • @RonOside
    @RonOside 5 месяцев назад +15

    The Thunderbirds of the early 60's were real jawdroppers.

  • @VintageWheelsTV-36
    @VintageWheelsTV-36 5 месяцев назад +12

    I found this video very good, thank you

  • @car39
    @car39 5 месяцев назад +38

    The Corvette was not a 454 v-8 it was a 4 rotor Wankel. GM’s decision to cancel their Wankel engine project was the reason the car wasn’t produced, not the transaxle.

    • @lukeduke8260
      @lukeduke8260 5 месяцев назад +6

      True you can see the rotary engine in the graphics.

    • @BILLYBOBB3080
      @BILLYBOBB3080 5 месяцев назад

      Why don't you make a video then? Big mouth got all the answers. You boomers are boring the rest of us. Be gone.

    • @jimlove4541
      @jimlove4541 5 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for correcting the stupidity of the internet .

    • @kerrybrucem.8967
      @kerrybrucem.8967 5 месяцев назад +2

      (10:13) four rotor facts. Thank me later.

    • @povertybay3260
      @povertybay3260 5 месяцев назад +2

      How did they miss that or maybe a better question would be why did they leave that out thanks for catching it

  • @commandertopgun
    @commandertopgun 5 месяцев назад +6

    Wow, these are real marvels indeed, impressive indeed-wicked love them. thanks for sharing.

  • @tompastian3447
    @tompastian3447 4 месяца назад +7

    The car is now completely restored. We need more guys like Tom Maruska, real world highly skilled, who not only do this type of work, but teach others how to do it. Tom should be giving classes. I hope Tom will eventually release some videos of how he did the work on this, which involves so many levels of skill. Engine shops are practically disappearing and finding a good body shop is a crap shoot. Get the gas powered car you want NOW, before the Biden mandates kick in in 2026. Say no to mandatory breathalyzers and kill switches, already mandated for 2026.

  • @eugenegilleno9344
    @eugenegilleno9344 5 месяцев назад +10

    My British 1951 Ford V8 Pilot had hydraulic jacks to be able to easily change wheels/tyres.....with the styling of a 1930’s American Ford sedan.

  • @kevanstreeter2431
    @kevanstreeter2431 5 месяцев назад +8

    The Mercury has been fully restored and has been sold to a museum in Florida. Fact checked.

  • @angelperez7891
    @angelperez7891 5 месяцев назад +10

    The Mercury XM Turnpike Cruiser was built for sale to the public with simplified mechanics and materials as just the Mercury Turnpike Cruiser in 1957-58.

  • @georgegbalzano9239
    @georgegbalzano9239 5 месяцев назад +7

    There appears to be AT LEAST 3 variants of the xP 882 Corvette in this video...

  • @cuda426hemi
    @cuda426hemi 5 месяцев назад +6

    Off topic but all those falcon gull doors reminds me of the great underrated late 80s "Starquests" the Starion/Conquest TSi - cool widebody, staggered wheels, intercooler, adjustable shocks all stock - they actually made a few gullwing versions of that car that look wicked. 👀

  • @jerrycallender9352
    @jerrycallender9352 5 месяцев назад +9

    X100 has the hood of the 1958 Fairlane and 1956 Lincoln front fender.

  • @ladnitnnyldivad
    @ladnitnnyldivad 5 месяцев назад +10

    Imagine restoring a One of One, No Parts were ever built for it. You'll have to make them all yourself and no one else will ever need them, so no way to recoup your investment unless you sell the car.

    • @MrTurboRotary
      @MrTurboRotary 5 месяцев назад +3

      Yah! You will need some mechanics from Cuba so they can hand build parts by measuring, cutting and hammering from scratch 😱

  • @midas7394
    @midas7394 2 месяца назад +1

    It was very interesting to see where the Delorian got it's timeless shape from. Thanks for sharing.

  • @angelperez7891
    @angelperez7891 5 месяцев назад +5

    The Chevrolet Corvette XP-882 (though not the mid-engine layout) went to production for 1984. The rear quarter and rear windows were made into a one-piece wrapped hatchback. The tail section was revised with the customary Corvette quad round taillights. The front was reworked with the basic profile of the 1980-82 Corvettes. This resulting shape identified the "C4" generation. Production actually started in 1983 in March. So there are 1983 Corvettes but only by date of manufacture and all examples built during 1983 were advertised as 1984 models.

  • @stuuuporman
    @stuuuporman 5 месяцев назад +2

    The Edsel looked a lot like that Mercury Turnpike Cruiser...AND, that mid-engine Corvette looks as good as anything today, if not better.

  • @Myriadconcepts-q9u
    @Myriadconcepts-q9u 5 месяцев назад +4

    In my day, beginning at 17 in 1976 I started P/T with Chevy in the parts department then as a service writer and finally out west selling Chevy’s in 1982 while at college. I’ve built and restored ground up over two dozen HP Chevrolet’s thru Amity Chevrolet and Motion Performance in Baldwin LI! The Areo Coupe with conventional doors is the one that had the four rotor Wankel. Just like in the photos Chevy experimented with the 454 the LT1 and the Wankel in 1973/4. The small block had the better weight distribution but Toranado drive system was an unmitigated disaster and that was the whole Real Flaw…. I still have the motor trend magazine that featured the four rotor areo coupe.

    • @jayfeder8217
      @jayfeder8217 5 месяцев назад

      In'91 when I went to work for Starbucks I needed a car to get me around my district. I ended up getting a first production year Dodge Neon the WORST POS ever invented. In its' first 6 months it went through 5 FIVE engine wiring harnesses. OR around No, I look at the new Dodge HORNET THA5 SHOULD SELL For around. 18K and it lists! in the Mid 53's.
      I will never buy another Dodge POS vehicle

  • @dhyde9207
    @dhyde9207 5 месяцев назад +4

    When the concept of a 2-seat sports car led to a competition between GM divisions, Buick built the Wildcat. It was really even cooler than the Chevrolet version which ended up being chosen. I uncovered the prototype one day under a tarp in the basement of the Alfred P. Sloan museum in Flint, Michigan in 1976. I often wonder what happened to it.

    • @mikeakers3453
      @mikeakers3453 5 месяцев назад +2

      There was a collector in Chicago (I can't remember his name - Joe?) who tracked down and bought all or most of those Fifities GM Motorama dream cars, the Buick Wildcat, the Oldsmobile Golden Rocket, etc. It is nice to know at least someone is enjoying them and they are still extant.

    • @bextar6365
      @bextar6365 4 месяца назад +1

      @@mikeakers3453 JOE BORTZ !

    • @mikeakers3453
      @mikeakers3453 4 месяца назад

      @@bextar6365 THAT'S IT!!

    • @mikeakers3453
      @mikeakers3453 3 месяца назад

      @@bextar6365 That's it!

  • @coletrickle-km7cl
    @coletrickle-km7cl 5 месяцев назад +4

    Another prototype never produced: the success of the 1964 mustang had ford trying to adapt the hardtop convertable idea of the fairlane 500 skyliner into the new 1965 mustang. They didnt have enough room for all the motors and mechanical parts to fit it in the trunk with the top iself to make it work/make it fold at a push of a button. I saw this prototype years ago at a car show at the corvette museum in bowling green ky. It had the folding hard top roof. But you had to fold it by hand.

  • @angelperez7891
    @angelperez7891 5 месяцев назад +7

    The X-100 (body shape wise) eventually went to production for 1955 as the Thunderbird.

    • @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602
      @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sorry, but you are mistaken. The X-100 (aka 195X Lincoln) fostered the 1956 Lincoln and 1961-1963 Thunderbirds. The '55 Thunderbird has no connection to the 1953 X-100.

  • @Greatdome99
    @Greatdome99 5 месяцев назад +4

    Interesting. GM's XP-887 would become the Vega, quite a difference from that XP-882 Corvette prototype

  • @fionagibson3314
    @fionagibson3314 4 месяца назад +2

    This was great, people looking to the future, to come up with something that was exciting, now all we have is SUV with smart phone connection.

  • @rickyparrish8310
    @rickyparrish8310 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love all 3 cars but i think my favorite was the 3d one i love looking at old cars

  • @daneblack2593
    @daneblack2593 4 месяца назад +2

    The Corvette looks better than the Corvette today

    • @robertpolnicky7702
      @robertpolnicky7702 4 месяца назад

      I even like it better than the 68. I like tge Lamborghini style doors.

  • @ronbrock6153
    @ronbrock6153 5 месяцев назад +2

    X-100 Was a performance version of the Mercury Marauder in 1969 & 70.
    The restoration looks pretty complete based on the videos of it at Mecum and the guy being interviewed.

    • @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602
      @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 5 месяцев назад +1

      The original X-100 started out as the "195X Lincoln", as shown above, and is still a running car today, housed in the Ford Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn. The 1969-70 Mercury X-100 was a unique roof body style, and was not designed to be a high-performance car, although options could make it appear as one.

  • @77cordobaguy
    @77cordobaguy 28 дней назад

    When I was a kid my family had a 1959 Mercury Monterey 4-door sedan. I noticed that the 59 Mercury's had a lot of the same styling cues as the XM turnpike cruiser. Look at the tail lights and codes that run up the sides behind the tail lights.

  • @arthurscott4467
    @arthurscott4467 5 месяцев назад +4

    Some of these cars were never meant to be produced, they were just meant to showcase certain innovations that would later be put in their regular line . New features, designed to attract buyers . These so-called concepts tested these innovations, to gear them to the buying publics pocket books, that at that time were very difficult to open.

    • @jayfeder8217
      @jayfeder8217 5 месяцев назад

      The drawing Na ijar was looking at in his first. Photo was of a fun T it re car called the Mustang, aka my. First car.

    • @jayfeder8217
      @jayfeder8217 5 месяцев назад

      In the mid 80s I bought a Mercury Cougar RX-7 TURBO. THE. ACCELERATION WHEN THE TUFBO KICKED IN LITERALLY DNPPED YOUR NECK. I ALSO owned a white T oyoita Celica GT AND A 84 BROWN CELIXCA GT TURBO. LOVED THOSE CARS

    • @arthurscott4467
      @arthurscott4467 5 месяцев назад

      @jayfeder8217 Hello sir, I see you liked Toyotas ,very nice ,I owned a 1971 Corola coupe, 4 speed ,small compact and wien I wound it up I might get 60 mph., but my favorite car was a 1958 Pontiac Chieften, now here was a car . It had a 327 v8 with 2 ,four barrel carbs, that baby would move. I was glad gas cost only 27.9 cents a gallon, because that car got 5 miles per gallon, of course the gas tank held 25 gallons, this was in 1965 ,OH well I digress, nice chatting with you. Good luck and may GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS.

  • @jamesgoodman8868
    @jamesgoodman8868 4 месяца назад

    When the big three built competitive cars. Those were the good old days.

  • @TheGreatZantello
    @TheGreatZantello 5 месяцев назад +4

    The Mercury turnpike cruiser like the Ford futura could have been converted over to a batmobile also I'm glad they chose the Ford futura I think I speak for everybody on that one. But that's not to say that the turnpike cruiser would not have made a excellent superhero / villain transporter. Which superhero or super villain would you have chosen for the turnpike cruiser?😊

    • @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602
      @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 5 месяцев назад +1

      You're GLAD George Barris destroyed the Futura for the batmobile? You are in a very tiny microscopic minority! If you like all that hyped-up, river-bottom trash, why are you reading about the truly great cars?
      By the way, it's a LINCOLN Futura, not a Ford Futura.

    • @TheGreatZantello
      @TheGreatZantello 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 you see that right there what I did you don't like inaccurate automotive information either .😁

    • @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602
      @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 5 месяцев назад

      @@TheGreatZantello Why don't you buy an expensive famous painting, and then goober it up with felt pens and crayons. Maybe put bushy eyebrows and a mustache on the Mona Lisa. That would fit your style, since you have little respect for integrity.

  • @TheGreatZantello
    @TheGreatZantello 5 месяцев назад +5

    How much you want to bet that John DeLorean in that particular time frame purposely scrubbed the areo vette to make way for a new design car that he had come up that borrowed these particular chassis component design. Things that kind of Make You go hmmm.........😮

  • @daneblack2593
    @daneblack2593 4 месяца назад +1

    Really cool where the pipes are on that mercury

  • @patsquach4080
    @patsquach4080 5 месяцев назад +9

    A. 3D printer and electric drive Could bring these back to life … !

    • @aurorajones8481
      @aurorajones8481 5 месяцев назад +2

      A robust enough metalica additive manufacturing could indeed bring this back to life. Sans the windows. That curved glass would not be an easy task. And EV's can kiss my S. They pollute far to much extracting the metreals out of the ground for the batteries taking in excess of 8 X the materials in copper and nickle compared to ICE then the charging. Its never green our grid is primarily coal and gas, if your lucky nuclear. ;) THEN you only have so many charges to that battery before its toast. Older EVs are boat anchors. LASTLY, no one has figured out to completely recycle the batteries. They are toxic at end of life having no way of being broken down as of yet. So tell me how is that green and or good? VS this thing which is still on the road. Id say that's green.

  • @charlesmurphy1840
    @charlesmurphy1840 4 месяца назад

    I have a 1963 Buick Electra sports coupe finding parts for rare cars like mine is hard as hell..but worth it for whoever I’m holding the car for..the cars until the late 70’s were works of art and it’s ashame we lose so many of them to the crusher every year.

  • @mv4463
    @mv4463 5 месяцев назад +2

    I have a 63 Monterey breezeway, 63 chrysler imperial. 93 imperial. 87 Zimmer quicksilver aka Lincoln style fiero. All with less then 15k on odometer.

  • @Xerxes3191
    @Xerxes3191 5 месяцев назад +1

    1957 Cadillac Eldorado Seville Sedan. Never thought they existed until I came across a photo on the internet, apparently only 4 of them were made. And had the same base price as the Seville Coupe and Biarritz convertible- $7,286. Note: this was before I watched the video.

  • @michaelgoble8200
    @michaelgoble8200 5 месяцев назад +1

    Without the video, there would be people on this channel claiming that the images were just AI. I get so angry when people claim that pictures of concept cars from this era are all fake.

  • @d4l3d
    @d4l3d 5 месяцев назад +2

    XP-882. Several of those graphics are obviously of a different prototype.

  • @OathTaker3
    @OathTaker3 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Corvette concept, I built as a model kit & it was called the 1985 or 95 Corvette, I forget which since it was over 40 years ago. 🤔

  • @tpdrsl37
    @tpdrsl37 Месяц назад

    Very interesting, but your photograph of "Jack Reith" actually shows Lord Reith, the first Director-General of the BBC.

  • @stevie-ray2020
    @stevie-ray2020 5 месяцев назад +2

    This video could've been at least a quarter as long if the narration & footage wasn't repeated so often!

  • @mykec.selene8302
    @mykec.selene8302 5 месяцев назад +2

    You people must think we're really stupid right? Not impressed with your picture of the small block Chevy in the XP882 Corvette. I thought it had a 454 and it not a small block Chevy!?

  • @bladerunner5810
    @bladerunner5810 4 месяца назад

    The Ford X100....the gargoyle of concept cars.

  • @rager1969
    @rager1969 4 месяца назад

    The front fender of the X100 also looks like a 1955-57 Thunderbird.

  • @charlesmurphy1840
    @charlesmurphy1840 4 месяца назад

    That ford x100 you can see Lincoln from late 50’s and thunderbird from the early 60’s

  • @georgehenderson7783
    @georgehenderson7783 4 месяца назад

    5:58 "( the Corvette XP-882's ) most eye catching feature was the massive 454 cubic inch V-8 engine mounted sideways"
    Not those DeLorean style gullwing doors??
    8:29 "John DeLorean, who was Chevrolet's general manager at the time made the final call to cancel the project"
    If this car had been able to be produced, we might have never seen the DMC-12!
    And Back to the Future would have been quite different!

  • @jimmieroan9881
    @jimmieroan9881 4 месяца назад

    i would like to see someone post pictures of the 1963 split window corvette 4 passenger prototype. i found and copied and saved the article years ago, the car was actually built because the big wheels in the office part of management wanted it, but the real artists knew it wouldn't never pass muster, just a few inches longer and a slight bubble in the top a little like the 2+2 jag xke coupe.

  • @mark.victorbrown849
    @mark.victorbrown849 4 месяца назад

    Isn't it strange that the XP882 looks oddly like the 1982,De Lorean and it was De Lorean project manager of the XP 882 who cancelled Duntov's dream of a mid-engine Corvette, I just find the circumstances of this a little more than coincidence 🤔🙀

  • @johnjohnsn7633
    @johnjohnsn7633 5 месяцев назад

    A version of the X100's hood ornament is found on the hood of the 1958 Ford Galaxie 500.

  • @dbc105
    @dbc105 5 месяцев назад +2

    Is that Letterman?

  • @towgod7985
    @towgod7985 2 месяца назад

    Video goes on, and On, AND ON! About the corvette, its half the video!

  • @alexander1485
    @alexander1485 4 месяца назад

    Ive seen that Mercury twice this year.... 2 different places in Florida for 2 different events. (auction and concours car show)

  • @ronaldheflen7629
    @ronaldheflen7629 5 месяцев назад +2

    Remember..when we drove for safely..now speed....I did like how well the paint. Should better..brung bacj a lack 4.oand 6 again.

  • @robertpolnicky7702
    @robertpolnicky7702 4 месяца назад +1

    Basically what i think is really significant about this report is where he made that statement about the future and excitement. How style does that. That right there is what improves our export ratios. Which is the core of economic might in a country. And this video is the epitomy of everything thats wrong with g m today. The kack of style. Cheesing wverything raising prices screwing customers for the wallet of the c eo.

  • @joestephan1111
    @joestephan1111 3 месяца назад

    Duntov was NOT the father of the Corvette. It existed before he went to work for GM.

  • @MatthewPhilmon
    @MatthewPhilmon Месяц назад

    We now have production model Vettes that are mid engine...bout time

  • @BlairAir
    @BlairAir 5 месяцев назад

    For those that the the XP882 was "lost" or destroyed... um... destroying prototypes was common, losing it? Seriously. Hey, anyone seen that stunning Mid-engine Corvette? I know it was around here somewhere.

  • @bextar6365
    @bextar6365 4 месяца назад

    This Merc has been rebuilt and sold at auction >>>>

  • @mickvonbornemann3824
    @mickvonbornemann3824 4 месяца назад

    The XP82 should’ve been marketed by Cadillac or one of the B.O.P divisions as an upmarket more expensive alternative to the Corvette. After all that was the whole point for those divisions.

  • @dalhaybron7063
    @dalhaybron7063 2 месяца назад

    .The Mid-Engine Corvete had a small block in it..

  • @LtJackboot
    @LtJackboot 5 месяцев назад

    I personally think the X100 was a better looking car than the Thunderbird it inspired. i never did like those particular Birds.

  • @dressshoeguy
    @dressshoeguy 5 месяцев назад

    Funny years later the corvette is now a mid engined car today

  • @daneblack2593
    @daneblack2593 4 месяца назад

    Those doors are not Corvette are way ahead of its time they're not even making them now

  • @PaulHayman-tq5kb
    @PaulHayman-tq5kb 5 месяцев назад +1

    I would like to see them today those car designers today with their designs to day weore a head of their Time

  • @DrEvil814
    @DrEvil814 5 месяцев назад +2

    Mr Redundant

  • @ronaldheflen7629
    @ronaldheflen7629 5 месяцев назад +3

    Some nice looking..auto...but too much ..way did not any one..start thinks smarter..cut down..rember 1965 mastane...just me..when we all could work on all our cars....with out china clips ..my thoughts with history

  • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
    @TheAllMightyGodofCod 4 месяца назад

    "and shown all around the world", shown across the USA and some places in Europe, you mean?

  • @mikeakers3453
    @mikeakers3453 5 месяцев назад +1

    There is little doubt that a mid-engine design is pretty much essential if you want to be competitive at Le Mans, Sebring, Daytona 24 Hour, etc. Its value on the street is questionable and it makes people with more money than brains think they are as competent as Mario Andretti behind the wheel, thus endangering the populace.
    Corvettes were beautiful cars right on up until 1984 when the bland C-4 came out looking like a dozen other cars that frequented the roads in America. Datsun Z cars Mazda RX 7, and a host of lesser pretenders shared its overall look. The emasculation of Corvette in the late Seventies contributed to this general decline. But even the C-4 wasn't ugly. It just wasn't Corvette beautiful. The C-5, C-6, and C-7 designs put Corvette back to looking great and performing great, as well.
    My personal favorite Corvette, and one that I still lust after, is the 1970 which replaced the 1968 and 1969 shark gills with a very attractive egg-grate design. It still retained the small chrome bumpers and was a gorgeous half-priced knockoff of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. It was available with a monster V8 which caused Enzo Ferrari to suffer involuntary glandular retraction. Because his goal was to dominate world racing Enzo Ferrari began the switch to mid-engine designs despite the damage done to the physical appearance of the cars. Mid-engine race cars were better on road courses.
    There have been interesting developments in recent years. Ferrari came out with the beautiful front engine, rear drive 812 GTS which bears more than a little resemblance to the C-5 Corvette; and Corvette came out with the C-8, which bears more than a little resemblance to every damned Ferrari built in the Eighties and Nineties and is best described as a dream car if your dream was the result of a midnight pizza orgy, a bad acid trip and a total disregard for aesthetics. The ultimate inspiration for the physical appearance may well have been the pizza box which people kept stepping on all night in the aforementioned pizza bacchanal.
    Automotive design taste is certainly a personal matter. Mercury in the late Fifties was my dad's choice, while GM was selling a lot more cars, in spite of the fact that they were not as attractive (in my opinion) as the Ford offerings (the 1957 and 1958 Fords notwithstanding), or even Chrysler's beautiful, albeit awful cars. However my heart sinks every time I see a mid-engine Corvette. No more front engine, rear drive. No more long hood, short deck. No more great Corvette visual impact. Just a self-destruct device for poseurs. Finally an ugly Corvette.

    • @fredeagle3912
      @fredeagle3912 5 месяцев назад +1

      I always assume those Ford gt40’s I see are fibre glass replicas. Same with Shelby cobras.

    • @OldRustySteele
      @OldRustySteele 4 месяца назад +1

      Totally agree. C8 Corvettes are not good looking and their proportions are awkward. C5, C6, and C7 Vettes are much better looking.

  • @77cordobaguy
    @77cordobaguy 4 месяца назад

    Is it me or do those tail lights look a lot like the tail lights on the production. "59 Mercury model's.

  • @Kiddman32
    @Kiddman32 5 месяцев назад +3

    Wow, that Ford x-100 thingy (or whatever it was) was pretty ugly, especially that chubby-looking back part of the roof.

  • @jdedmnds1
    @jdedmnds1 5 месяцев назад +3

    X 100 front is sooooo ugly. Did the engineer from the Edsel program help with the design?

  • @jonathanmorrisey5771
    @jonathanmorrisey5771 4 месяца назад +1

    Keep politics OUT OF AUTOMOTIVE VIDS!! Stop the multi-millionaire political hacks bumming for money!!!!!

    • @top.intel0
      @top.intel0  4 месяца назад

      What are you talking about?

  • @bigkk758
    @bigkk758 4 месяца назад

    Good lord the front bumpers on the the ford and mercury are horrible

  • @jamesalexander3530
    @jamesalexander3530 4 месяца назад

    Instead a mass-producing these gorgeous prototypes Detroit went ho hum designs

  • @dandahermitseals5582
    @dandahermitseals5582 5 месяцев назад

    Looks like an Edsel

  • @PerspectiveEngineer
    @PerspectiveEngineer 3 месяца назад

    5:46 damn thats pretty

  • @mothman-jz8ug
    @mothman-jz8ug 4 месяца назад

    The Ford X100 (name taken from the then-popular Shell motor oil?) reminds me of the car Homer Simpson designed. Perhaps the weirdest part is that stretched out '56 Dodge grill. It somehow reminds me of that Dodge and, at the same time, mid-fifty's Studebaker grills.
    The experimental Corvette was appealing but, like nearly all innovative sports car designs, the had to include those absurd gull wing doors. I always looked at those as ridiculous crap. "Sporty"? Futuristic? I have always considered them silly and nothing more.
    BTW: have you ever had a hood suddenly come down on your head because those stupid gas cylinders had gotten weak? Or perhaps you had such an experience with a rear hatch. Well, think of that and tell me how "exotic" those stupid gull wing doors are.
    That Mercury was proof that Ford was fully capable of designing a car even uglier than Edsel. WTF was going on with that front bumper??? All you youngsters out there who thought Pontiac Aztech and Chevy Avalanche were peak automotive ugliness, feast your eyes on that Mercury monstrosity and stand corrected.

  • @steventurner8428
    @steventurner8428 5 месяцев назад +2

    I understand that they were concept cars but it also showed how ugly early American cars were.

  • @jmmbos
    @jmmbos Месяц назад

    Looks like a joke . car designing was mad at that time .. only to impress but no marketing strategies at all .. Everything had to be big bold and majestic , not exactly clever . This story seems to be told by Artificial Intelligence so not very appealing either

  • @invisableobserver
    @invisableobserver 5 месяцев назад

    Cars should never have been invented

  • @SleepyBread-mv4tw
    @SleepyBread-mv4tw 5 месяцев назад

    What 🤣🤣 horrible cars nothing like Chevys and Ford foris to sostis o sistis

  • @tompastian3447
    @tompastian3447 4 месяца назад +1

    RUclips, STOP RUNNING ADS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES ON ENGLISH VIDEOS> STOP

  • @frankodo3251
    @frankodo3251 5 месяцев назад

    Say what you want about the xp8 882. I’m not that much into the wankel-engine it had but if they’C8 would look more like this - and not like an angry teenager designed it - I’d be tempted to buy the first corvette after I had a C3 for some years.