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GM’s Motorama comes to Los Angeles, 1956
Not two years after the Petersen Motorama was thrilling crowds with all manner of transportation – including a number of cars using the then-new technology of fiberglass for body construction –...
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Dream cars go on display at Heritage Museum
Photo courtesy of General Motors1956 Buick Centurion, collection of Sloan*Longway, Flint, Michigan A collection of dream cars spanning more than half a century, from the Buick Wildcat II and Plymouth...
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Pitching the Prototypes – the Firebirds I, II, and III
For my third – and probably final – installment of Pitching the Prototypes, I’ve taken on probably the greatest concept cars of all time, GM’s three Firebirds of the 1950s. These turbine-powered,...
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Cars of Futures Past – GM Firebird Concepts
Harley Earl poses with the Firebird concepts in 1958. All photos courtesy General Motors. In the car-obsessed 1950s, showing off technical capability was just as important to automakers as staying...
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“We’re all set for auto control:” GM’s jet-age vision of the future
Fear not, travelers, the Autoway Safety Authority is watching. Still image from YouTube video. The problem with attempting to predict the future is this: Chances are almost certain that the reality...
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Midweek Matinee: Motorama Dreaming
The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket concept. Still image from video below. Surreal. Ethereal. Dreamlike. These hypnagogic adjectives may rarely come up in conversations with your buddies as you wrench on the...
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