AC invacar,seen them on the streets as a kid, totally bizarre little blue things.this has to be the best video on RUclips,that phantom was something else
I just love these creative vehicles. Wish I had a few to actually drive around. Love the streamlining. Hard to pick a favorite, but the Boat car looks fun, and several of the most streamline ones are great sculpture, and of course the Tucker is superb. There are Tuckers on display at the AACA Museum in Hershey PA. A great museum to visit. I wonder if any of the others were ever on display there.
I had Alex Tremulis (Tucker designer) as a transportation part-time design teacher in Detroit, mid-60s. Didn't get much design work done when he came in. Students all wanted to hear his stories about the Arfon brothers at salt flats and the motorcycle speed record, salt flats, Auburn Cord and Duesenberg. A great guy. Greg Mooney
My favourite vintage car was my grandfathers, passed on to my father. A1934 Morris ten-six, Registration number BMP 861 Not many of then were produced as most people went for the ten-four. I hope someone has preserved this car because many years after it was sold I actually saw it on the road.
In case anybody's wondering: #12, the Invader GT VW kit car, was not produced until the early 70's. This particular example turns up elsewhere online, and apparently is *built on* a '62 chassis.
Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in Prague, founded by František Janeček, before WWII, and it is still making motorcycles today. making cars was just a try, but they stayed into motorcycle industry.
If you grew up in the 1940's or '50s, see if you agree with me that the 1938 Phantom Corsair (#6) was probably the inspiration for that era's comic-book Batmobile. Just add a huge bat-wing sail on the back.
15 that car is beautiful. and God I love Morgans We waste so much now. under 50 hp over 122 miles an hour.... come on man.... we have 400+ hp cars now that dont come close to that.
#16 is my personal favorite considering I was able to handle to exhaust 'stacks' while being HPC coated. Having also been blessed to meet the Jenkins on multille occasions. So yeah...Im pretty biased. If you want more info on the Mormon Meteor- it has been featured on Jay Lenos garage, as well as housed at the Prices Museum of Speed also in Salt Lake City.
'Boys of Bonneville' film/documentary-tells the Jenkins story with the Meteor(s) released abt 6 yrs ago, narrated by Patrick Dempsey. Highly recommended, You won't be disaapointed. $1.99
My favorite design would be the Tucker torpedo no 8. Great design! Second number 17 also a beauty. Don't care much for the tech specifications, I just look at what's a pleasure for the eyes!
Nice presentation. I used to live next to the Tabot factory in London, which was the oldest car plant in the world that started in 1902 (now offices and housing) Before this factory, cars were produced mainly in sheds or factories that were built for other purposes, but the Talbot plant was the first purpose built car making plant in the world. Incidentally, Talbot is pronounced Tall-But
Pulling into the refueling station in my 1959 Ford Nucleon, "Fill 'er up", I say. The attendant says, "That'll be one hundred and thirty thousand dollars". "Do you give green stamps?", I inquire. His reply, "No sir. We don't". "Forget it!"
Sixty years ago I was an early morning paperboy along the "new car strip" in Dayton, Ohio! I saw all sorts of fun and odd looking cars but the one that has stuck with me the longest was the Italian designed Isetta Zoo which featured the door in the front and tiny tires in the back. I wonder who purchased that particular car? Anyone?
There would be almost no car crashes. Fear of mutual assured destruction would make people very careful and dumb drivers would not survive) But first we will have to use up all the oil.
The only US aircraft to carry a nuclear reactor was the NB-36H. The reactor was never actually connected to the engines. The Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bomber. It had 4 conventional turboprop engines and an onboard nuclear reactor that was never connected to any engine as well.
Somehow ashame that I did not put the Persu one whitch is in my hometown,Bucharest technical museum and which I know since childhood.Allways thought that it looks funeral like.For sure it was a big step in terms of aerodynamics...but esthetically...
Omg I want the Tucker! So many fascinating cars. TYVM for video. Now going to watch “Tucker” again. Francis Ford Coppola. I think I’ve forgotten most of it or confused it with the Edsel & designer for the rest. Tucker: the Man and his Dream (1988). On Amazon streaming, buying the film is $8 or 9, &:renting is $4.
You made it sound as though electric cars were weird before the 21st century, they were about but didn't catch on because battery technology was garbage, I think it was around the late 20s when an electric car held the world land speed record. Thanks for the post.
Warrior Wombat Detroit Electric held the longest distance on one charge until Tesla came out with the Model S. It wasn't battery technology it was the fact that gas cars were cheaper and more practical.
Jimmy Grant, they may have been cheeper, but battery technology has only really progressed since the latter part of the 20th century, the main thing that put off potential buyers was the little problem of the cars running off electricity when most houses didn't have it at the time. Batteries were very large, very heavy and did not hold a charge very well. Even steam cars were more popular in the early days of motoring than the electric cars, simply because people understud the process behind it.
Actually electric cars were quite popular with ladies who's families could afford them. They were SO much easier to operate than gas or steam cars. Then the electric starter came out and that was pretty much the end of the electric car for a century.
Jeff DeWitt, I know, I think that was a bit of a shame. My father had a steam wagon in the 60s, it's a shame he got rid of it, it would be worth quite a bit now.
Warrior Wombat--- News flash-- electric cars are STILL weird! Ditto for the battery technology-- it's still insufficient for practical driving. And which land speed winner is practical for street driving? The one with 4 Pontiac V-8's? Or the jet-powered one? What? LSR winners are entirely irrelevant to automotive technology.
Cool stuff! (The Tucker was never called "the Torpedo." That was an earlier design -- which ironically looks like the sports car Tucker built briefly in Brazil. The well-known Tucker is always "the 48."}
So much commentaries about how you pronounce French words, trying to correct you by telling you ways to say it that aren't better that you do... Someone even put an "r" in the phonetic of "l'oeuf" :D :D :D As a French, there's three solutions here: continue to pronounce it as you want, do a quick search using translators wich give you the good phonetic, or ask to some French people; sure I'm not the only one to watch your videos ;) I know this video is months old, but I had to say it. Other than that, cool stuff dude, you have a sub (and as I said, I'm French, so my english could be a bit clumsy; sorry about that :) )
I've seen the car at a couple of museums, I's now at the Reno auto museum but has also been displayed at the Black auto museum in Danville, California. I cannot recommend the Blackhawk enough as they have the most amazing collections going through and if it's quiet you can talk to a docent and get a very good look at most of the cars there.
Considering it was a 1938 design, I think it's safe to say stealth planes were modeled after it, rather than the other way 'round. But I seriously doubt the aircraft designers had it in mind.
I'm surprised you did not note that the 1938 Phantom Corsair was the base used for the Batmobile in comic books of the time so in fantasy it was a secret hero's car. The other car ie the 1959 Ford nuclear did not make it to production for 3 reasons. 1) it mostly made of magnesium and titanium that at the time alone would have a sell cost of $175,000.oo 2) The nuclear pellets were about the size of a baby aspirin and 6 were sealed in the power disk that cost $375,000.oo but one would not need to get them changed out for a calculated 18,750,000 miles. 3) And the kewl thing was when you parked to go to work or home or shopping you would plug in your car to keep the electrical power grid on. So you had a car that was almost impossible to destroy unless you were in a very violent wreck. If it did happen the Nuke disk was way hard to even crack never mind bust apart so no free radical nuke fuel bouncing around. However, it would cause panic if it did get built & was in a fender bender. You would and could drive almost forever. At that time it was calculated for 750 years of what was one's normal miles per year that included going to grand mom's for Christmas or a vacation to Florida, California, Yellow Stone, The Black Hills or other. The oil and gas companies would be flat out broke in about 5 to 7 years for your total use per 2 or 3 years was 3 quarts of turbine synthetic oil ( that right now cost $5.95 per bottle ) and 5 quarts of a thicker antifreeze coolant that was also synthetic ( even now cost $9.95 per gallon ) every 2 to 3 years but no gas or oil was used. Right now and ever since th turbo pack is on so many cars and/or the use of Wankel rotary engine in Mazda cars or Suzuki motorcycles we have used synthetic oils since 1973 in some cars & motorcycles. However, we have been using synthetic oils and hydraulic oil in jet aircraft since 1950. SYNTHETIC is made from plant oils The good part was free electrical power and no more smog. The part that get's me is who griped the most about it, it was none other than California ...
That 1955 Fascination car looks like Lewis borrowed heavily from Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car (Why exclude it from this list?), although both vehicle designs could be said to have been influenced by cars from earlier designers like Aurel Persu & others, along with advances in aeronautical design!
One of the Fuller Dymaxion cars is being restored at the Reno car museum now. It was used by an english company to make a recreation, and then sent to Reno for actual restoration.
the first saab model is a experiment of a cut airoplane wing thereof the model of the car ,,..:-) at first Saab mobile is a product of cut aerodynamic shape ok, The company was founded in 1937 at the request of the Swedish government of Bofors together with AB Ars (subsidiary of the Electrolux Group) as Svenska Aeroplan AB with head office in Trollhättan. [6] The company was created to secure the manufacture of Swedish fighter aircraft. Among the founders were Marcus Wallenberg, Axel Wenner-Gren and Sven Wingquist. [7] In 1939, the competitor ASJA was bought up and the head office moved to Linköping. After the Second World War, large defense orders followed from the Swedish Air Force, which strongly equipped during the Cold War. Saab produced several classic fighter aircraft such as Saab 29 Tunnan (premiere flight 1948), Saab 32 Lansen and Saab 35 Draken (premiere flight 1955). The barrel excelled by setting two world records in 1954 and 1955. It also sold plans to a lesser extent abroad, including to Austria and Finland. Investments in civil aviation with Saab 340 and Saab 2000 followed in the 1980s. The company changed its name to Saab AB in 1965 and was merged with Scania-Vabis AB to Saab-Scania AB in 1969. The merger included driving the Wallenberg sphere with ownership interests in both companies. In 1968, Saab bought up the Malmö Aviation Industry (MFI). In 1990, Saab-Scania split and the aircraft and vehicle manufacturing were separated. The car production was sold to General Motors, which subsequently took the entire majority of the shares in the newly formed company Saab Automobile AB. Scania again became an independent company. What remained of the Saab Group was Saab AB, which was re-formed in 1998. In 1995, a collaboration was initiated with the then British Aerospace, the current BAE Systems genome through the creation of Saab-BAE Gripen AB. The goal was to get Gripen on the international market. In 2001, the collaboration was expanded through the creation of Gripen International. BAE Systems purchased 35% of Saab AB in 1998, reduced ownership to 20.5% in 2005, 8.8% in 2010, and 0% in 2011 [8] One major change was the merger between Saab and Celsius (including former Bofors) in 2000, when Swedish aerospace, robot and avionics production was assembled within Saab. Bofors artillery operations, including intelligent ammunition, were transferred to BAE Systems, while the remaining parts of Bofors correspond to Saab Bofors Dynamics. [9] Saab has since December 2005 been a partner in the project Dassault nEUROn. In 2006, Saab acquired Ericsson Microwave Systems and its radar and sensor operations, including the Erieye radar system. From January 1, 2010, Saab AB has a new organization and is divided into six business areas: [10] Since 2012, Saab is also a co-owner of the car manufacturer Saab's car museum. In September 2013, the media reported that Boeing and Saab would start a collaboration around Gripen. A collaboration aimed at offering an aircraft in the US TX program. A program based on the US Air Force commissioned with the replacement of the Northrop T-38 Talon school airplane. Boeing has previously indicated that they would be offering a completely new aircraft. But both Boeing and Saab believe that they can offer a cheaper and brand new aircraft, in comparison with the competitors Italian Alenia with US partner Dynamics, British BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman and Korean KAI and Lockheed Martin with the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle aircraft. [11]. In early December 2013, both Saab and Boeing confirmed the collaboration, which aims to develop a new school aircraft and offer 350 aircraft with associated systems and logistics. The school airplane will be completely new and not a simplified version of the Saab 39 Gripen. [12] [13] On Sunday, June 29, 2014, Saab announced that the company was planning to buy Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems AB, which was previously known as Kockums. The deal, which is valued at SEK 340 million, must, however, receive internal approvals within TKMS and from the Swedish Competition Authority. An answer is expected in July 2014. [14] On July 22, 2014, Saab announced that it had completed the acquisition of Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems. The company will be part of Saab's business area Security and Defense Solutions and will be named Saab Kockums. [15] In June 2016, it became known that Saab AB and the Civil Aviation Administration (LFV) are investing in the development of digital air traffic control and together the company Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions starts. Saab is the majority shareholder in the company with 59 percent of the shares. [16] Divisions
📢Do you have a favorite vintage car? Let us know in the comments below!
Cord 812
The Tucker, `66 Shelby Cobra AC & the `71 De Tomaso Pantera for the win!!
1936 Duesenberg SSJ Speedster. I know it's wildly specific. There were only 2 made. Or the Lincoln Futura, basis for the Batmobile.
Minds Eye Design Toyota Prius : VEGAN Edition . It's powered by Farts and Gas Emissions Protests
AC invacar,seen them on the streets as a kid, totally bizarre little blue things.this has to be the best video on RUclips,that phantom was something else
What fun looking at these vintage vehicle designs they are soooo cool
I just love these creative vehicles. Wish I had a few to actually drive around. Love the streamlining. Hard to pick a favorite, but the Boat car looks fun, and several of the most streamline ones are great sculpture, and of course the Tucker is superb. There are Tuckers on display at the AACA Museum in Hershey PA. A great museum to visit. I wonder if any of the others were ever on display there.
I love that Tucker and have wanted one since I saw the movie about them in the 90s.
I had Alex Tremulis (Tucker designer) as a transportation part-time design teacher in Detroit, mid-60s. Didn't get much design work done when he came in. Students all wanted to hear his stories about the Arfon brothers at salt flats and the motorcycle speed record, salt flats, Auburn Cord and Duesenberg. A great guy. Greg Mooney
My favourite vintage car was my grandfathers, passed on to my father. A1934 Morris ten-six, Registration number BMP 861 Not many of then were produced as most people went for the ten-four. I hope someone has preserved this car because many years after it was sold I actually saw it on the road.
There is some real gems in this video. 👍
Hello Pae Dahe, thank you for watching!
Superb what a wonderful treat for a car loving engineer to see !
So much fun
Gotta love it
amazing stuff thanks for posting oddball stuff ive never seen
Nicely done. Some great cars and it was well narrated and produced. Thanks!
Good video thanks for posting!
I thought that all the vehicles shown are very interesting, great job Reacher. Also great job on the research end.
In case anybody's wondering: #12, the Invader GT VW kit car, was not produced until the early 70's. This particular example turns up elsewhere online, and apparently is *built on* a '62 chassis.
Great video sir . Very interesting
Btw...i like the plexiglass repairs on the side window by the hinge.
Truly amazing what the mind allows people to produce.
Watch Tucker the man and his dream it captures the spirit behind every single one of these cars
Nice video. Love the cars.
I love those three wheel Morgan cars and will eventually get myself one even if I have to get the new one.
Nice video. The wacky world of automotive oddities. Thanks.
That Corsair is breathtaking.
Awesome... finally some cars I've never seen before! ... Except 2-3 of course.
Thems were the days man. When they designed and built a car that looked like a boat to be funny and creative. Nothing like that no more.
Nice video and gave a like.
Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in Prague, founded by František Janeček, before WWII, and it is still making motorcycles today. making cars was just a try, but they stayed into motorcycle industry.
These car seem futuristic than the cars of today.
super interessante, adorei ver tantos carros diferentes, parabéns pelo vídeo, agora estou inscrito no canal 👍👍
Just found your great videos. New sub.
+Doug Norwood thanks for the sub!
WOW! A GREAT site ...... :)
You could do a stand alone video on each car ...... !!!!! :)
If you grew up in the 1940's or '50s, see if you agree with me that the 1938 Phantom Corsair (#6) was probably the inspiration for that era's comic-book Batmobile. Just add a huge bat-wing sail on the back.
+Cetok01 not from that time frame but I definitely agree. Such a beautiful vehicle! Way ahead of its time!
Now i have 20 favorite vintagecars!
Very good video but number three is just an American Dream.
Thank you well done love it.
Awesome Cars Minds Eye!
Never knew about exsistense most of the cars
That 1923 Audi Jaray was unbelievably ahead of its time, body-wise!
15 that car is beautiful.
and God I love Morgans
We waste so much now. under 50 hp over 122 miles an hour.... come on man.... we have 400+ hp cars now that dont come close to that.
The meteor 3 looks SO COOL OH CRISHT ALL MIGHTY
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#16 is my personal favorite considering I was able to handle to exhaust 'stacks' while being HPC coated. Having also been blessed to meet the Jenkins on multille occasions. So yeah...Im pretty biased. If you want more info on the Mormon Meteor- it has been featured on Jay Lenos garage, as well as housed at the Prices Museum of Speed also in Salt Lake City.
'Boys of Bonneville' film/documentary-tells the Jenkins story with the Meteor(s) released abt 6 yrs ago, narrated by Patrick Dempsey. Highly recommended, You won't be disaapointed. $1.99
nice
Hi, Not trying to insult you AT ALL. I thoroughly enjoyed your video and the selection of of off beat cars. Keep up the good work
+Lann Copeland thank you!
What a blast...way cool!
Thank God for modern designers. That's all I have to say about that!
The 1962 Invader GT has taillights from a 1972 Maverick?
My favorite design would be the Tucker torpedo no 8. Great design! Second number 17 also a beauty. Don't care much for the tech specifications, I just look at what's a pleasure for the eyes!
Macroshoot LSD and the boat car will really make you feel like you are sailing over the oceans of your imagination.
I love vintage cars.
I love that phantom coursair and if I’m ever a billionaire I will own one.
Love this vid.
The boat car is really cool!
Thanks for the great video
true
fascinating.
Some of these designs should be revived.
Nice presentation.
I used to live next to the Tabot factory in London, which was the oldest car plant in the world that started in 1902 (now offices and housing)
Before this factory, cars were produced mainly in sheds or factories that were built for other purposes, but the Talbot plant was the first purpose built car making plant in the world.
Incidentally, Talbot is pronounced Tall-But
good looking car in the video
Which one?
great show , I liked the shark car the best :)
Pulling into the refueling station in my 1959 Ford Nucleon, "Fill 'er up", I say.
The attendant says, "That'll be one hundred and thirty thousand dollars".
"Do you give green stamps?", I inquire. His reply, "No sir. We don't".
"Forget it!"
Sixty years ago I was an early morning paperboy along the "new car strip" in Dayton, Ohio! I saw all sorts of fun and odd looking cars but the one that has stuck with me the longest was the Italian designed Isetta Zoo which featured the door in the front and tiny tires in the back. I wonder who purchased that particular car? Anyone?
boat car, nucleon, and the shark are the I like.
My top 3 = 1 Phantom 2 Western Flyer 3 Boat Car.
Good call on Axing the Nucleon (Dumb drivers & Nuclear energy -what a combination) However love to have that model.
There would be almost no car crashes. Fear of mutual assured destruction would make people very careful and dumb drivers would not survive)
But first we will have to use up all the oil.
there was a nuclear airplane, you know? Those reactors can be light and small enough
USSR had a flying nuclear plane. Also portative nuclear reactors for Siberia outposts that still in use. Those can be safely carried by a truck.
B. .
The only US aircraft to carry a nuclear reactor was the NB-36H. The reactor was never actually connected to the engines. The Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bomber. It had 4 conventional turboprop engines and an onboard nuclear reactor that was never connected to any engine as well.
1941 western Flyer,Nardi Giannini Bisiluro,Zil 112 Sport.1947 Morgan,Tucker 48,Framo Stromer.And of course Fiat boat car.
Somehow ashame that I did not put the Persu one whitch is in my hometown,Bucharest technical museum and which I know since childhood.Allways thought that it looks funeral like.For sure it was a big step in terms of aerodynamics...but esthetically...
I love number 17, That's the one
The Flying Wombat ill have to try that.
The Phantom Cruiser aka wombat was a sharp looking car for it's time. I bet the exterior design could be modified to today's standards.
The Tucker should have been made for year's. Good car
I'll stick with my all original 1969 Pontiac Firebird. It's a timeless classic. With a 400 4spd it doesn't accelerate, it jumps.
Do you have your Smokey and the Bandit mustache and cowboy hat too?
0-60 mph time, 6.2 seconds. Yeah right real jumper you got there, Hahahaha
WARPHEAD hi
Love the egg car
Omg I want the Tucker! So many fascinating cars. TYVM for video. Now going to watch “Tucker” again. Francis Ford Coppola. I think I’ve forgotten most of it or confused it with the Edsel & designer for the rest. Tucker: the Man and his Dream (1988). On Amazon streaming, buying the film is $8 or 9, &:renting is $4.
Hello Alistair McElwee, thank you for watching!
Thumbs up.
The front of the Western Flyer looks like a Cylon face from Battle Star Galactica.
Love to know what some of those designers were smokin.
Awesome!! That's so cool!! I subbed, BTW.
77Pacer should we go ahead
ЗИЛ 112 СПОРТ , перфектна машина за времето си , бяха страхотни времена .
Creative
Panhard Dynavia 1948. It defined the proper shape for minimum drag and got 80 mpg.
You made it sound as though electric cars were weird before the 21st century, they were about but didn't catch on because battery technology was garbage, I think it was around the late 20s when an electric car held the world land speed record. Thanks for the post.
Warrior Wombat Detroit Electric held the longest distance on one charge until Tesla came out with the Model S. It wasn't battery technology it was the fact that gas cars were cheaper and more practical.
Jimmy Grant, they may have been cheeper, but battery technology has only really progressed since the latter part of the 20th century, the main thing that put off potential buyers was the little problem of the cars running off electricity when most houses didn't have it at the time. Batteries were very large, very heavy and did not hold a charge very well. Even steam cars were more popular in the early days of motoring than the electric cars, simply because people understud the process behind it.
Actually electric cars were quite popular with ladies who's families could afford them. They were SO much easier to operate than gas or steam cars. Then the electric starter came out and that was pretty much the end of the electric car for a century.
Jeff DeWitt, I know, I think that was a bit of a shame. My father had a steam wagon in the 60s, it's a shame he got rid of it, it would be worth quite a bit now.
Warrior Wombat--- News flash-- electric cars are STILL weird! Ditto for the battery technology-- it's still insufficient for practical driving. And which land speed winner is practical for street driving? The one with 4 Pontiac V-8's? Or the jet-powered one? What? LSR winners are entirely irrelevant to automotive technology.
Cool stuff! (The Tucker was never called "the Torpedo." That was an earlier design -- which ironically looks like the sports car Tucker built briefly in Brazil. The well-known Tucker is always "the 48."}
So much commentaries about how you pronounce French words, trying to correct you by telling you ways to say it that aren't better that you do... Someone even put an "r" in the phonetic of "l'oeuf" :D :D :D As a French, there's three solutions here: continue to pronounce it as you want, do a quick search using translators wich give you the good phonetic, or ask to some French people; sure I'm not the only one to watch your videos ;) I know this video is months old, but I had to say it. Other than that, cool stuff dude, you have a sub (and as I said, I'm French, so my english could be a bit clumsy; sorry about that :) )
The JAWA looks like something only a Jawa (from Star Wars) would drive.
the nr 3 car is pretty much str8 out of the fallout universe !
The Tucker should be produced for today's buyers.
5:55 fantastic!
I bet there's no Russian who knows about this car!
I myself got to know about it just here and now....
Yep, this information is not so popular in Russia. Nice to see it here ✌🏻
Meet George Jetson! His boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane, his wife!
I would like a pontoon boat car.
Good narrating.
Boat Car would be my favorite.
Tim Michaelszr h _0
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The Boat Car looks like the predecessor to all of the vehicles in Bikini Bottom.
it should be towing a carboat
The Phantom Corsair had an exquisite paint job. I wonder why there are not more cars that are modeled after our stealth fighters, or bombers?
I've seen the car at a couple of museums, I's now at the Reno auto museum but has also been displayed at the Black auto museum in Danville, California. I cannot recommend the Blackhawk enough as they have the most amazing collections going through and if it's quiet you can talk to a docent and get a very good look at most of the cars there.
Considering it was a 1938 design, I think it's safe to say stealth planes were modeled after it, rather than the other way 'round. But I seriously doubt the aircraft designers had it in mind.
Brent Schmidt I had a hot wheel toy of the car when I was young.
oh my god!! that corsair is the most fantastic car ever!!! I would buy one right now even if ford made it!!
HA!..... dont you think trump would like a huge portion of the population to be silent and un seen?
This video is good. 😍
I'm surprised you did not note that the 1938 Phantom Corsair was the base used for the Batmobile in comic books of the time so in fantasy it was a secret hero's car.
The other car ie the 1959 Ford nuclear did not make it to production for 3 reasons.
1) it mostly made of magnesium and titanium that at the time alone would have a sell cost of $175,000.oo
2) The nuclear pellets were about the size of a baby aspirin and 6 were sealed in the power disk that cost $375,000.oo but one would not need to get them changed out for a calculated 18,750,000 miles.
3) And the kewl thing was when you parked to go to work or home or shopping you would plug in your car to keep the electrical power grid on.
So you had a car that was almost impossible to destroy unless you were in a very violent wreck. If it did happen the Nuke disk was way hard to even crack never mind bust apart so no free radical nuke fuel bouncing around. However, it would cause panic if it did get built & was in a fender bender.
You would and could drive almost forever. At that time it was calculated for 750 years of what was one's normal miles per year that included going to grand mom's for Christmas or a vacation to Florida, California, Yellow Stone, The Black Hills or other.
The oil and gas companies would be flat out broke in about 5 to 7 years for your total use per 2 or 3 years was 3 quarts of turbine synthetic oil ( that right now cost $5.95 per bottle ) and 5 quarts of a thicker antifreeze coolant that was also synthetic ( even now cost $9.95 per gallon ) every 2 to 3 years but no gas or oil was used. Right now and ever since th turbo pack is on so many cars and/or the use of Wankel rotary engine in Mazda cars or Suzuki motorcycles we have used synthetic oils since 1973 in some cars & motorcycles. However, we have been using synthetic oils and hydraulic oil in jet aircraft since 1950.
SYNTHETIC is made from plant oils
The good part was free electrical power and no more smog.
The part that get's me is who griped the most about it, it was none other than California ...
Thank you guys that is very nice ...
It's an interesting concept. 375 thou for every 18 milli.
The Batmobile was a Lincoln Futura concept car. George Barris did little more than paint it black.
I don’t know if the boat car is cool. But it is interesting. But the meteor 3 looks like a very old Bat-mobile prototype
more details please!
The Morgan F super was the best for me in the video , some cars in the video were not only cool but were also weird , no offence.
ag135i I concur, they are weird but in a good way
RYAN CLARK 1941 Western Flyer! Would love to have that
ag135i i
How about Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion? I think you should add to your list.
A definite yes!
That 1955 Fascination car looks like Lewis borrowed heavily from Buckminster Fuller's 1933 Dymaxion car (Why exclude it from this list?), although both vehicle designs could be said to have been influenced by cars from earlier designers like Aurel Persu & others, along with advances in aeronautical design!
One of the Fuller Dymaxion cars is being restored at the Reno car museum now. It was used by an english company to make a recreation, and then sent to Reno for actual restoration.
music. cars... all have been influenced by others work. I think its kind of cool to watch the eveolution of cars in that way. also music....
5:05 lol looks like Lightning McQueen ;)
I like number 15
I would like to own two old car's and from a old car company kindly suggest some old cars worth buying
the first saab model is a experiment of a cut airoplane wing thereof the model of the car ,,..:-) at first Saab mobile is a product of cut aerodynamic shape ok, The company was founded in 1937 at the request of the Swedish government of Bofors together with AB Ars (subsidiary of the Electrolux Group) as Svenska Aeroplan AB with head office in Trollhättan. [6] The company was created to secure the manufacture of Swedish fighter aircraft. Among the founders were Marcus Wallenberg, Axel Wenner-Gren and Sven Wingquist. [7] In 1939, the competitor ASJA was bought up and the head office moved to Linköping. After the Second World War, large defense orders followed from the Swedish Air Force, which strongly equipped during the Cold War. Saab produced several classic fighter aircraft such as Saab 29 Tunnan (premiere flight 1948), Saab 32 Lansen and Saab 35 Draken (premiere flight 1955). The barrel excelled by setting two world records in 1954 and 1955. It also sold plans to a lesser extent abroad, including to Austria and Finland. Investments in civil aviation with Saab 340 and Saab 2000 followed in the 1980s.
The company changed its name to Saab AB in 1965 and was merged with Scania-Vabis AB to Saab-Scania AB in 1969. The merger included driving the Wallenberg sphere with ownership interests in both companies. In 1968, Saab bought up the Malmö Aviation Industry (MFI). In 1990, Saab-Scania split and the aircraft and vehicle manufacturing were separated. The car production was sold to General Motors, which subsequently took the entire majority of the shares in the newly formed company Saab Automobile AB. Scania again became an independent company. What remained of the Saab Group was Saab AB, which was re-formed in 1998. In 1995, a collaboration was initiated with the then British Aerospace, the current BAE Systems genome through the creation of Saab-BAE Gripen AB. The goal was to get Gripen on the international market. In 2001, the collaboration was expanded through the creation of Gripen International. BAE Systems purchased 35% of Saab AB in 1998, reduced ownership to 20.5% in 2005, 8.8% in 2010, and 0% in 2011 [8]
One major change was the merger between Saab and Celsius (including former Bofors) in 2000, when Swedish aerospace, robot and avionics production was assembled within Saab. Bofors artillery operations, including intelligent ammunition, were transferred to BAE Systems, while the remaining parts of Bofors correspond to Saab Bofors Dynamics. [9]
Saab has since December 2005 been a partner in the project Dassault nEUROn. In 2006, Saab acquired Ericsson Microwave Systems and its radar and sensor operations, including the Erieye radar system. From January 1, 2010, Saab AB has a new organization and is divided into six business areas: [10]
Since 2012, Saab is also a co-owner of the car manufacturer Saab's car museum.
In September 2013, the media reported that Boeing and Saab would start a collaboration around Gripen. A collaboration aimed at offering an aircraft in the US TX program. A program based on the US Air Force commissioned with the replacement of the Northrop T-38 Talon school airplane. Boeing has previously indicated that they would be offering a completely new aircraft. But both Boeing and Saab believe that they can offer a cheaper and brand new aircraft, in comparison with the competitors Italian Alenia with US partner Dynamics, British BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman and Korean KAI and Lockheed Martin with the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle aircraft. [11]. In early December 2013, both Saab and Boeing confirmed the collaboration, which aims to develop a new school aircraft and offer 350 aircraft with associated systems and logistics. The school airplane will be completely new and not a simplified version of the Saab 39 Gripen. [12] [13]
On Sunday, June 29, 2014, Saab announced that the company was planning to buy Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems AB, which was previously known as Kockums. The deal, which is valued at SEK 340 million, must, however, receive internal approvals within TKMS and from the Swedish Competition Authority. An answer is expected in July 2014. [14] On July 22, 2014, Saab announced that it had completed the acquisition of Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems. The company will be part of Saab's business area Security and Defense Solutions and will be named Saab Kockums. [15]
In June 2016, it became known that Saab AB and the Civil Aviation Administration (LFV) are investing in the development of digital air traffic control and together the company Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions starts. Saab is the majority shareholder in the company with 59 percent of the shares. [16]
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I really want one of those Frammo Stromer cars when I become rich.
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