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'If we were to design the cars 100% streamlined, following all the aerodynamic principles, would not all the cars look alike and the designers have nothing to do?'
H. Schmude, General Motors Corporation, to, Walter Korff, designer:555-mph,Summer Brothers' Goldenrod LSR streamliner, and Chief aerodynamicist, Lockheed Aircraft Company, SAE Paper No. 649B,January 1963,Automotive Engineering Congress, SAE Transactions, Volume 72,1964,p.592.
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05-12-2020, 03:06 PM
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I’ve been told the cars sheet metal is a canvas with which you could paint anything.
Perhaps something other than white, black or silver might help?
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05-12-2020, 04:55 PM
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That's a good point. |
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05-12-2020, 11:02 PM
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I’ve been told the cars sheet metal is a canvas with which you could paint anything.
Perhaps something other than white, black or silver might help?
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If I had money, I might pay a guy from the best lowrider paint tradition to make a work of a large, good aero car, such as a Tesla Model S, or a small one such as the Gen1 Insight, and transform it in a unique way... this vid is about a great legendary car of the lowrider scene, now preserved in the Smithsonian, apparently.
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05-13-2020, 02:09 PM
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If I had money, I might pay a guy from the best lowrider paint tradition to make a work of a large, good aero car, such as a Tesla Model S, or a small one such as the Gen1 Insight, and transform it in a unique way...
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Would be quite curious to say the least, either the Tesla or the Insight with those small wire-spoked wheels and whitewall tyres. |
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05-13-2020, 07:41 PM
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I offer for you consideration, a dressmaker's car:
Just A Car Guy: Neil 'Bunny' Rodger (1911-1997) son of a Scottish telephony tycoon, and owner of a couture house he opened in 1937 with clientele including Vivian Leigh and Marlene Dietrich
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He opened his fashion house in 1937. The personality of his creations quickly earned him the loyalty of a renowned clientele, the Lygon sisters, Princess Marina, and Vivien Leigh, who then lived with Laurence Olivier and was about to shoot Gone With the Wind. [1954]
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I remember an editorialist in C&D or R&T commenting on how 1950s cars with their rows of teeth (looking at you, 1953 DeSoto) looked like they lurk in the garage at nigh waiting to eat something.
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05-13-2020, 11:04 PM
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That car inspired the Munsters.
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