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Old 03-29-2015, 06:43 PM   #1557 (permalink)
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I in turn was interested in the car in the lower left, which turns out to be the 1962 Ford Selene. I'm always fascinated by car with no apparent means of driver ingress/egress*. At the darkroastedblend website the caption reads:
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Pictured above, top to bottom: 1960 Ford Predicta, 1960 Ford Levacar, 1961 Ford Gyron, 1962 Ford Seattle, and 1962 Ford Selene. All ready to be shipped to some outer space colony, or a futuristic City Dome - to be driven by the bladerunners and paranoid androids in various Philip K. Dick environments.
The second sentence is rampant fanboi-ism. The first is full of error. The Predicta was a '57 T-bird built and shown by Darryl Starbird. It has more history with Monogram Models than Ford.

The 'Ford Seattle' is properly called the Ford Seattle-ite XXI. The linked article have titles like "Ford Seattle-ite: one of history's most significant concept cars" and "The Coolest Car Ever Built: 1962 Ford Seattle ITE XXI ...". I stood right next to it (it's a 3/8ths scale model) in 1962.

Tracking all of this down I wandered through Pinterest and wound up at The Strange Case of the "Midnight Ghost" - Dieselpunks. Which is also car Model story, in this case with a bogus back-story from the Franklin Mint.


"Duesenberg Coupé Simone Midnight Ghost."
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Also, the Levacar was part of a system. The major part would have been a roadway system of polished stainless steel since it hovered at an altitude of a few thousandths of an inch.

Heaven forfend there be a gum wrapper laying in the roadway.



*those may be external hinges on the windshield/canopy.
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