Interesting Aerodynamic Cars (Mike Vetter's ETV, also Avion)

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New year month day, new favorite obscure concept car. Now it's the Chevrolet Moray:

The Chevrolet Corvette Moray Concept: A Timeless Tribute to an American Icon

The greenhouse has four components, a V-shaped windshield. two flip-up removable panels (sort of a T-top) and a tapering spine at the back.

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Would that be a rear-view periscope at the peak of the roof?

It would be interesting to see a CFD analysis of that top without the panels. There's a longitudinal component to the A-pillars and they have no vortex-inducing corners.

What I would call a bubble-top coupe.

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Subtle box cavity rear, and in 2003 a somewhat LaFerrari (2015) looking headlight system.

Nice find, I don't recall that concept car.

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MacMinn Le Mans Coupe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GerJA9SLzo

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Do you know of Strother MacMinn?

He taught at the Art Center School in Los Angles for 40 years and published Sports Cars of the Future. In 1957 Road & Track published the article, "Beauty and the Beetle," showing how the Volkswagen Beetle might be redesigned.

carstylecritic.blogspot.com: 1957 VW Redesigns by Strother Mac Minn and Bob Gurr

Strother MacMinn Redesign
MacMinn also reduced the height and might have increased the rear overhang (it's hard to be sure, given the perspectives he used in the renderings). I think his redesign is much more successful than Gurr's. That's because it retains a VW "feeling" or spirit. It also has a more "timeless" appearance than Gurr's 1955-based design.