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- JT on Vintage Snapshots: Parking Lots In The ’60s & ’70s
- Patrick Bell on Curbside Find: ’97-’02 Daewoo Nubira – Postcard Perfect Footnote
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- Paul Niedermeyer on Vintage Snapshots: Parking Lots In The ’60s & ’70s
- David Cook on Driveway Find: 1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme Coupe – It Was Dad’s Favorite Car As Well As America’s
- RetroStang Rick on Driveway Find: 1980 Olds Cutlass Supreme Coupe – It Was Dad’s Favorite Car As Well As America’s
- Jose Delgadillo on Curbside Find: ’97-’02 Daewoo Nubira – Postcard Perfect Footnote
- Mark on Cohort Outtake: 1960 Corvairs Still Hard At Work In Cuba With Lada Engines In Front
- Mark on Cohort Outtake: 1960 Corvairs Still Hard At Work In Cuba With Lada Engines In Front
Concept Car Archive
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Concept Classic: 1960 Plymouth XNR – Exner’s Hot Slant-Six Corvette Fighter That Almost Got Built
Posted on March 11, 2024 | 51 Comments(first posted 8/3/2013) Virgil Exner’s disappointment over his 1955 Chrysler Falcon two-seater not being green-lighted for production was deep and lasting. He loved sports cars, and was an enthusiastic and […] -
Concept Classic: 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne (XP-37)- Chuck Jordan’s Motorama-mobile Had A Better Rear End Than Front End
Posted on October 21, 2023 | 85 Comments(first posted 10/21/2017) GM’s 1950s Motorama-mobiles were mostly pretty out-there, with flamboyant fins, rocket-inspired skegs and cockpits, and other flights of wild imagination. Frankly, many of them […] -
Concept Classic: Studebaker Sceptre – The Thunderbird From South Bend
Posted on October 16, 2023 | 90 Comments(First posted 4/16/2013. This post includes some excellent commentary and insight into the situation at Studebaker regarding the Sceptre and other plans during these final years from Studebaker historian Rob […] -
CC Museum Visit: Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles – Detroit Dream Cars and Automotive Icons
Posted on September 1, 2023 | 17 CommentsIf there’s a city meant to have a large temple devoted to automotive history, that is car-crazy Los Angeles. And that obligatory shrine is none other than the Petersen Automotive […] -
Vintage What If? 1954 Packard Panther – No, It’s Real, Not AI-Generated, And Powered By A Supercharged Flathead Straight Eight
Posted on May 17, 2023 | 24 CommentsI would not blame you for thinking this was an AI-generated image, as it’s a bit hard to imagine that front end being “real”. But real it is; all too […] -
Concept Classic (And Video): Datsun 240Z Design Proposal: Just One Milestone Of A Long Process
Posted on September 17, 2022 | 20 Comments(first posted 4/12/2013) The revolutionary Datsun 240Z (CC here) had a long and somewhat tortuous development process. Albrecht Goertz was a consultant to Nissan, and the results of his early […] -
Design Milestone: Raymond Loewy’s 1957 BMW 507 Coupe – Ahead Of Its Time In At Least One Key Way
Posted on August 28, 2021 | 46 CommentsI’ve seen pictures before of Loewy’s BMW 507 Coupe that he designed and had built for himself, but they were invariably in profile or from the rear. When I came […] -
GM’s 1949 Corsair – A Tatra-Style Rear Engine Streamliner Ten Years Before The Corvair
Posted on April 26, 2021 | 8 CommentsThe rear engine Corvair wasn’t exactly GM’s first foray into the mysteries of rear engine cars. There were a number of experiments, and the 1949 Corsair concept, although only a […] -
Concept Classic: The 1961 Chevy Impala Coupe That Wasn’t
Posted on May 31, 2020 | 24 CommentsI hadn’t seen this ’61 Chevy Impala clay before, and it’s quite intriguing. The front end is just like how it ended up, but from the middle back, it’s a […] -
Concept Classic: Lamborghini Marzal – The Espada’s Inspiration And My Heartthrob Of 1967
Posted on May 5, 2019 | 36 Comments(first posted 7/12/2013) In 1967 I was fourteen, and perhaps one of the earlier exponents of the eighties’ teenage tradition of having a Lamborghini pinup on my bedroom wall. […] -
craigslist Find: 1989 Mercury Sable Two Door Convertible Concept – A Fantasy That Would Never Become A Reality, Thanks To The Mustang
Posted on March 21, 2018 | 44 CommentsWill we ever see a modern two door car in Ford’s lineup not named Mustang? Probably not, especially considering the current sales plight of the four door sedan. Thirty years […] -
The Mystery Concept Is More Mysterious Than Ever – We May Never Know Exactly What It Is
Posted on October 17, 2017 | 93 CommentsWe’re such suckers! Here we thought we had this 1976 GM Mystery Concept all figured out. I accepted Jim Cavanaugh’s rational deduction/guess of a design concept for the upcoming gen2 […] -
Concept QOTD: Is It A Big Golf Cart or Something To Drive To The Golf Course?
Posted on October 14, 2017 | 29 CommentsThe setting is GM’s Design Center, almost certainly. The Chevy concept is a clay (or possibly fiberglass), based on the rigid supports visible under the body. Its rear quarter evokes […] -
Concept Outtake: 1979 Chevrolet Nomad II – GM Shoulda Woulda Coulda Been the FWD Minivan Pioneer
Posted on October 13, 2017 | 91 CommentsIf GM could redo its history, here’s one of very many decisions they’d undoubtedly do differently: to not put this FWD X Car-based minivan concept into production in 1980, a […] -
Concept Outake: How The ’61 Continental Influenced the 1964 Mustang’s Styling
Posted on October 12, 2017 | 15 CommentsSince we’re on the subject of Mustangs, and their design influence, let’s go back to 1962 or so, and see how the design development program for it changed rather abruptly […]