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

[freebeard]

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.

[kach22i]

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

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

[Logic]

MacMinn Le Mans Coupe

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

[freebeard]

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.

[freebeard]

Here's a video on the 1970 NART Zagato: A Cadillac Eldorado Transformed into an Italian Exotic

Mid-rear engine with four wheel disk brakes. Spare tire in a frunk.

Note that the dropped side window opening. The Chevy Monza copied that in 1975.

[freebeard]

aerohead should like this one. All it needs is wheel spats.

1992 Ellipsis Prototype: The Car That Promised the Future but Stayed a Dream

Dymaxion/Template form factor; but the assertion is that it wasn't aerodynamics that determined it, but pedestrian safety.

[ennored]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Here's a video on the 1970 NART Zagato: A Cadillac Eldorado Transformed into an Italian Exotic

Mid-rear engine with four wheel disk brakes. Spare tire in a frunk.

Note that the dropped side window opening. The Chevy Monza copied that in 1975.

A 1970 Fiero. I wonder what the first FWD powertrain stuffed in the back car was. Is this it?

And I wonder if Don Johnson had a picture of one on his wall when he did the Quicksilver version of a Fiero? (And I wonder if Don worked on the Monza when he was at GM...)

[freebeard]

FWD dates to 1934 with Citroen. There were doubtless some specials or other over the years, but for production -- maybe the 1980 Renault 5 Turbo, else the Fiero.

[aerohead]

I believe Paul Jaray commented on the pedestrian safety of his 1922 'Kombination-form' cars, which actually had brushed or struck pedestrians and cyclists.
( early cell-phone distraction ? )

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by ennored

A 1970 Fiero. I wonder what the first FWD powertrain stuffed in the back car was. Is this it?

And I wonder if Don Johnson had a picture of one on his wall when he did the Quicksilver version of a Fiero? (And I wonder if Don worked on the Monza when he was at GM...)

That was the offspring of John Shinella and Antoine 'Tony' Lapine.
Head of GM's Styling said, 'That thing looks like a potato'.