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[Bud Brewster]

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A car from the future we never got to see, a mission to Mars that never happened, and imaginative plans to build a moon base!

There's lots of interesting posts to read and reply to. I guarantee it — or your Space Force Bucks will be cheerfully refunded! (And I still think there something odd about that serial number . . . )



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1958 Ford La Galaxie — an amazing vehicle!

One the less well-known concept cars of the 1950s was the 1958 Ford La Galaxie. For years I could only find one picture of it -- this one. (Click on the picture to see more images of it in Future Cars from the Past - part 2.)



In the years since I first found this picture and the others I traced down for 1950s and 1960s concept cars, the amount of info on the internet has increased dramatically, and now you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a few dozen pictures of the good old La Galaxie.

I came across the picture of that eye-popping dashboard just a few days ago. I have no idea what some of the more interesting features do, so this thread is for the discussion of those features -- their aesthetic appeal, their functions, and the designer's decisions to arrange them in such a unique manner.

And to help you folks illustrate your posts about specific features, here's gallery of close-ups you can select from to paste a picture of a specific feature you wish to discuss.

The picture below is linked to a 2,048px ?? 1,536px version on a site called Old Concept Carts (oldconceptcars.com) so can zoom in for a clearer view of any part of the dashboard.

The detail of the image is stunning!



Please help us figure out what some of these gizmos are for! Most of them are fairly obvious -- but others look like devices that came from the Krell lab!

Look closely at each picture and you'll come up with at least six questions that I'm sure we'd all like the answers to. (Example: The plexiglass spheres are complex as hell . . . and they're different! What are they?)






















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Mission To Mars (2000)

This was a fairly ambitious and imaginative movie, and I liked parts of it. There wasn't any part of it I really disliked. It just didn't exactly knock my socks off. But I did like the fact that it made use of the Face on Mars as part of the story.

What I've been wondering about for years it that other face on Mars, this one —



-- and the amazing resemblance it has to this one!


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Sparks From Falling Water: Kelvin's Thuderstorm

Great video! Lot's of CGI to illustrate how they're going to build it, and it ends with these shots, panning back and making my heart go pitter patter.




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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)