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

    06-23-2008 10:31 AM #71
    Quote, originally posted by subwoffers »
    When you speak properly, yes.

    this coming from someone who spells woofers woffers...

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

    06-23-2008 10:54 AM #72
    Quote, originally posted by Spectral »

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (jeff1234)

    06-23-2008 10:58 AM #73






    Modified by Spectral at 10:49 AM 6-23-2008

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    Re: (FastGTi)

    06-23-2008 12:39 PM #74
    A Pirates favorite Volkswagen???


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

    06-23-2008 09:19 PM #76
    [QUOTE=Spectral]
    Modified by Spectral at 2:02 PM 6-22-2008[/QUOTE


    I've always loved that one... it's weird.. but there's something about it...

    How about the Peugeot Quasar?

    The Charger III (1968)

    or the 1955 Lincoln Futura (might look a little familiar)



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

    06-23-2008 09:50 PM #77
    I always thought the Peugeot 402 was pretty spacey, for 1938...



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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (geofftii2002)

    06-24-2008 04:49 AM #78


    Looks like a miniature Countach... how cute


    Modified by JettA4show at 1:53 AM 6-24-2008

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

    06-24-2008 01:43 PM #79
    Quote, originally posted by uber_beetle »

    or the 1955 Lincoln Futura (might look a little familiar)

    Indeed....hmmmm......

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

    06-24-2008 02:01 PM #80
    This thread needs more Modulo!



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    06-26-2008 01:44 PM #81
    Here I thought GM invented the horizontal windshield with the 4th gen F-body. I stand corrected!
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    Re: (BrewtownDUB)

    06-26-2008 11:03 PM #82
    Yes YES! I likey.

    Although everytime I hear futuristic *anything* I instantly think of the GM Futurliner.

    I mean, come on. It has "Futur" in it's name!

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    06-26-2008 11:11 PM #83
    You sir, are my hero. Thank you for this thread!
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

    06-26-2008 11:55 PM #84
    Quote, originally posted by Spectral »

    This car is stunning! If I was a billionaire, I might just have to have one of these in my stable.

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

    06-27-2008 01:47 AM #86
    Quote, originally posted by Rukh »

    I literally said WOW when I say this thing.

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

    06-27-2008 02:38 AM #87
    Quote, originally posted by klaxed »
    I literally said WOW when I say this thing.

    Isn't it awesome in the truest, most literal sense of the word? I had a chance to see the Lancia/Bertone Stratos "Zero" in the (silver) flesh at the 1996 Concorso Italiano in Carmel. It was then and is still the most stunning car I have ever seen. Also, for a car that has so much visual presence, it is INCREDIBLY tiny.

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

    06-27-2008 02:50 AM #88

    ya know they used a pinto rear end on these things?


    freakin bomb on wheels!

    (waits for it)

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (pueblorrado v3.0)

    06-27-2008 06:16 AM #89
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    Re: (fixmy59bug)

    06-27-2008 06:17 AM #90
    Quote, originally posted by fixmy59bug »
    Yes YES! I likey.

    Although everytime I hear futuristic *anything* I instantly think of the GM Futurliner.

    I mean, come on. It has "Futur" in it's name!

    I remember watching that thing sell at the barret jackson car auction on the speed channel . The guy drove it all the way home

    Common sense isn't common anymore.....
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Supraman2JZ)

    06-27-2008 07:47 AM #91

    That is one sexy design!


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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (pueblorrado v3.0)

    06-27-2008 08:27 AM #92
    Quote, originally posted by pueblorrado v3.0 »

    freakin bomb on wheels!

    (waits for it)

    I see your bomb car and raise you.....

    The belly tanker:

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

    08-10-2008 09:37 AM #93
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (Spectral)

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

    08-10-2008 10:39 AM #95
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (JettaGT8V80)

    08-10-2008 11:05 AM #96
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    Even *more* futuristic Dome:


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    08-10-2008 11:10 AM #97
    If by retro-futurism you mean a picture of the future that is highly unlikely, then here's one:




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

    08-10-2008 11:12 AM #98
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    The winner, let me show it to you

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    And to think people are worried about a Hybrid wreck these days


    That's almost as brilliant as the whole "let's use nukes to dig canals" thing

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

    08-10-2008 11:19 AM #99
    I like that the cars of the future from the 50s still had giant whitewalls on them.
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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism

    08-10-2008 12:50 PM #100
    1938 Phantom Corsair. One of a kind, built on a Cord 810 chassis, and designed/financed by ketchup-heir Rust Heinz, as part of his project to produce limited copies for $12,000 each (Bugatti/Duesenberg money then). Heinz had one car completed, and was killed shortly after in a car wreck at age 21. VERY space-age for its time.

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

    08-10-2008 12:57 PM #101

    Not old but, looks futuristic...

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    Re: Space Age styled cars - Retro Futurism (EQVN01)

    08-10-2008 06:22 PM #102
    A long time ago... (if that ain't old, I don't know what is)

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    Re: (lrusak)

    08-10-2008 07:40 PM #104

    Saab Aero X anyone?

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

    06-07-2009 01:51 PM #105

    Any thoughts? I found this model in an antique store. It might be a students model but I'm not sure. When I first saw the model I thought the front end was the rear of the car. oops.
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