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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Before campers there was the 1934 Thompson House Car:
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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A more recent retro-future car; the 1980 Oldsmobile Aurora concept:
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Robert (Butch) Day wrote: | A more recent retro-future car; the 1980 Oldsmobile Aurora concept... |
Man, that is one euoogly car! _________________ ...or not...
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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orzel-w wrote: | Man, that is one euoogly car! |
Damn, you're right! That thing is scary for the same reason clowns are creepy. Just what does this critter want to eat with that big grinning mouth in front? _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Custer Space Sector Commander
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:37 am Post subject: |
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orzel-w wrote: | Man, that is one euoogly car! |
It would look better if it was the other way round, surely? Apart from the lights being the wrong colour that way... |
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've read about that car, it was designed by a Reverend who wanted to design the world's safest car. I don't know if he succeeded in designing the safest car, but he sure designed one of the ugliest cars around.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Krel wrote: | I've read about that car, it was designed by a Reverend who wanted to design the world's safest car. I don't know if he succeeded in designing the safest car, but he sure designed one of the ugliest cars around. |
He certainly made is safe from car thieves! Picture the conversation.
Car Thief # 1: Hey, let's steal that weird car!
Car Thief # 2: Uh, why?
Car Thief # 1: Ummm . . .okay, you got me there. _________________ ____________
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scotpens Starship Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Krel wrote: | I've read about that car, it was designed by a Reverend who wanted to design the world's safest car. I don't know if he succeeded in designing the safest car, but he sure designed one of the ugliest cars around.
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The thing looks more like it was designed by Salvador Dali when he was drunk. |
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:35 am Post subject: |
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scotpens wrote: | ... Salvador Dali when he was drunk. |
More like when he was sober. He wasn't exactly drunk but WAS quite tipsy. He was rarely seen without a drink in his hand. _________________ Common Sense ISN'T Common |
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:15 am Post subject: |
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The 1948 Tasco:
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Pye-Rate Starship Co-Pilot
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Brent Gair Mission Specialist
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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The Avro Canada Jetliner was quite a sensation when it flew in 1949. It was a 4-engined jet airliner optimised for intercity use. Howard Hughes wanted 30 of them for TWA.
Unfortunately, Avro Canada's CF-100 all weather fighter was running behind schedule and, with the outbreak of the Korean War, Avro was ordered to concentrate it's limited resources on CF-100 production. The Jetliner languished and was eventually cut up. A second prototype was under construction but never completed.
Had it entered production, people would have been jetting from city-to-city a dozen years before the Boeing 727 flew. |
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scotpens Starship Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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The Avro C102 Jetliner was the world's second jet transport to fly. Britain's De Havilland Comet prototype made its first flight 13 days before the Canadian jetliner took to the air. The Comet entered commercial service in 1952.
Unfortunately, metal fatigue (little understood at the time) caused three of the early Comets to crash. By the time the cause of the crashes had been determined and the plane redesigned, Britain had lost its lead in commercial passenger jet travel.
Some nautical retro-future: Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes' 1932 proposal for a streamlined ocean liner . . .
. . . and a similar but more fanciful design from Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1938.
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Norman Bel Geddes was also the designer of the 39 New York World's Fair GM Futurama exhibit. Norman Bel Geddes did fantastic work, and has been ripped off...Uh, has influenced and been paid homage to by several designers. Too bad his book is out of print.
Butch, that 1948 Tasco looks like it would have right at home in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon comic strip.
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