Almost as if a switch had been flipped near the end of the 1950s, American stylists dropped baroque, overly complicated and ornamented desig...
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The Exciting 1962 Corvair Monza GT Concept Car
The Corvair was a "compact" (USA terminology) car marketed by Chevrolet for model years 1960-69. Unusual features (again, for t...
AMC Cavalier: Symmetrical Concept Car
Ultra-luxury cars aside, the automobile industry lives in a cost-control environment. Pennies, Euro-cents and single-digit Yen are pinched ...
Concept to Production: Alpha Alero to Oldsmobile Alero
Some concept cars are pure fantasies intended to keep styling staff juices flowing. Back in the 1950s, they were appropriately called &quo...
Concept to Production: Oldsmobile to Dodge ?!?
The 1992 Oldsmobile Anthem was a concept car that is little known today and was not very noteworthy in its time. Supporting this contentio...
Buick Blackhawk Concept: 1939 Parts Included
Many concept or auto show cars have unique, custom-built bodies. Others intended to preview features on forthcoming production cars might b...
Chevrolet's Uncluttered 2003 SS Concept Car
Nowadays concept and production cars seem to be collections of planes and angles intended to somehow make wind tunnel tested body shapes dis...
Chrysler Chronos: Concept Retros a Concept
The 1988 Chrysler Chronos concept car was inspired by Virgil Exner's 1953 D'Elegance concept car -- a 35-years-later echo. (The D&#...