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    Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism

    06-21-2008 05:10 PM #1
    Post up old cars that have the space age look. Like this:





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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-21-2008 05:59 PM #2

    can i has???

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (JettA4show)

    06-21-2008 06:04 PM #3
    When you speak properly, yes.
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (subwoffers)

    06-21-2008 06:09 PM #4
    Quote, originally posted by subwoffers »
    When you speak properly, yes.


    Okay okay, I can has? Who is the manufacture of these "jetsons cars". I would love to drive one.


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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-21-2008 06:28 PM #6
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (radroc)

    06-21-2008 06:35 PM #7




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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-21-2008 07:00 PM #8
    The winner, let me show it to you

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Dawg Dee-Lux)

    06-21-2008 07:05 PM #9
    Let me show you it....
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Dawg Dee-Lux)

    06-21-2008 07:08 PM #10
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism

    06-22-2008 06:28 AM #11
    Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car of 1933 was certainly "space age". A little more "Flash Gordon" than Apollo moon landing, but still you get the point.

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (vwlarry)

    06-22-2008 06:49 AM #12
    I'm a big fan of Bucky's domes.


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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 06:58 AM #14
    The Harley Earl styled, gas turbine powered 1950s GM Firebird Concepts.

    '53 Firebird I

    '56 Firebird II

    '59 Firebird II

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (pat_ernzen)

    06-22-2008 07:10 AM #15
    ^^Nice pics, Pat. Especially the firebird. Oh wait, they are all Firebirds. Doh!


    1963 Chrysler turbine car

    1950s LeSabre concept

    A different view of a Firebird concept




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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 07:59 AM #16
    Quote, originally posted by Spectral »

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 08:00 AM #17
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    I love the 3 foot wide separation between husband and wife. That car could have saved my marriage!!!

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (eunos94)

    06-22-2008 09:05 AM #18
    ^ I used to have a Tshirt that had that image on it. ^

    Its from a 1950s Popular Science magazine cover.

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 10:02 AM #19
    Those unfamiliar with the man should google Syd Mead, he is a futurist industrial designer who consulted with the auto industry and many other large corporations back in the day. He does these practically photo-realistic looking paintings, and has worked on numerous movies such as Blade Runner and Tron. His body of work is prolific.




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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (RabbitsKin)

    06-22-2008 10:08 AM #20

    1958 Student Sketch
    "The dramatic, jet-tube after burner effect is enhanced by the precise bumper blade, but the most surprising element is the crisp, angular styling that anticipated the look of the seventies."

    the official site is great too

    http://www.sydmead.com/v/01/splash/


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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (RabbitsKin)

    06-22-2008 10:09 AM #21




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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Lwize)

    06-22-2008 10:14 AM #22
    What I think is cool about Mead, aside from his astounding ability of course, is that he was doing this visionary futurism stuff all through the '70s and '80s, long after the major car companies had come back down to earth, so-to-speak. Not that they weren't still doing concepts, but the stuff from the '50s and '60s was clearly WAY out there .

    Mead will have this cool, sleek concept, and it will have white strip tires

    Here's one circa late '80s by the looks of it, still going at it:





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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 10:30 AM #24


    Sadly, it went into production


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    06-22-2008 10:43 AM #25
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (chronoguy)

    06-22-2008 10:48 AM #26
    Quote, originally posted by chronoguy »
    Sadly, it went into production

    Sadly, not looking like that. Just like the Aztec, there was a huuuge gap between concept and production.

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (eunos94)

    06-22-2008 10:49 AM #27
    Quote, originally posted by eunos94 »

    I love the 3 foot wide separation between husband and wife. That car could have saved my marriage!!!

    Hummer H1 is the same way....
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism

    06-22-2008 10:56 AM #28
    It's "spacey" all right; the Aurora "Safety Car" of the 1950s.

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 11:28 AM #29
    Some of the Corvette concepts were kind of spacey.

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    06-22-2008 11:35 AM #30
    Spacey or just strange?


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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (spockcat)

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-22-2008 12:01 PM #33
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (vwlarry)

    06-22-2008 12:02 PM #34
    Quote, originally posted by vwlarry »
    It's "spacey" all right; the Aurora "Safety Car" of the 1950s.

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