ohhh yeah.
and while we on good rides... Have you seen something like this at Le Mans???
What the 1948 Cadillac could have looked like
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http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/06/17/what-the-1948-cadillac-could-have-looked-like/The 1948 and 1949 Cadillacs defined high-tech for their day. In those two years, the crest and wreath introduced styling and engineering innovations that would go on to influence the American auto industry for decades. Aircraft design inspired some of those innovations, but as we see from several renderings for the postwar Cadillac, planes could have had a much more prominent role in Cadillac design.
As Michael Lamm related more than 40 years ago in his story looking at the 1948 and 1949 Cadillacs for Special Interest Autos (issue #11, June 1972), Harley Earl gets credit for introducing the tailfin to GM’s designers when he took them on a field trip to Selfridge Field near Detroit to sketch the new Lockheed P-38 Lightnings. Whether legendary designer Frank Hershey was among that group, Lamm didn’t say, but it was Hershey’s advanced design studio within GM that got Earl’s assignment to design the postwar Cadillacs and in the process bring some of the P-38′s design elements into the automotive world.
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Ford's 1963 Allegro concept. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the decades following the Second World War, the drive to produce a more stylish automobile year upon year created an arms race between American automakers, none of which were content to lose ground to rival brands in the quest for driveway dominance. In 1964... Read more
In the decades following the Second World War, the drive to produce a more stylish automobile year upon year created an arms race between American automakers, none of which were content to lose ground to rival brands in the quest for driveway dominance. In 1964, with the introduction of the Mustang behind it, Ford released Styling and the Experimental Car, a short film that gave a glimpse into Ford’s views on automotive design and its occasionally accurate vision of the future.
If the Allegro concept looks familiar, it should; the car’s long hood and fastback styling influenced the production Mustang’s lines, as did the car’s recessed headlamps and protruding grille. The adjustable pedals seen in the Allegro concept would eventually find their way into production, as would the tiltaway steering wheel to allow easy egress (although the cantilever design with push-button adjustability shown in the video never reached production). The Allegro concept lived on in several other forms, including a roadster variant with styling similar to the fastback and a later Allegro II variant (shown in 1967) that bore a striking resemblance to the 1974 Mustang II.
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