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06-21-2013, 02:47 PM
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^^ I like it, except for the center console and much-too-busy headlights.
Honda helpfully provide a plan figure
for you Templating needs.
The treatment of the lower body strikes me as a less radical Bugatti Stratos.
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06-21-2013, 08:05 PM
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Inside the two-person cockpit,.........
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No rear seat?
A flip up child's seat perhaps?
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I tried to find a top or plan view which showed the seating layout from above. I could not find one, but no longer suspect it to be a 3-seater.
Why a rear seat with no leg room is shown in the section is a mystery to me.
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06-21-2013, 11:09 PM
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06-22-2013, 12:13 AM
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That's the part I was talking about. I thought the center console should be wrapped with black foam rubber and bands of friction tape, like a proper race car.
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Now I see it. It's on the center console, right behind the blue lever. Looks like it slides back for adjustment. I believe that would be called a postillion seat.
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06-30-2013, 09:18 PM
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07-04-2013, 12:44 PM
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07-04-2013, 02:18 PM
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Interesting cars and interesting websites.
The Corvair Futura Concept strikes me as a well-made custom rather than Chevrolet factory work. Although I can see Strother McMinn penciling in those free-standing lights.
I recall the Testudo but not that it was Corvair powered. I like the peep mirrors.
There is a picture on WeLei's main page that fronts a dead link.
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07-04-2013, 03:18 PM
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The Futura kicks butt! 
And it really was a Futura, fortelling the popular car-based mini-van by 20 years. |
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07-05-2013, 03:42 AM
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I'm confused, is the '64 1/2 Falcon Sprint considered to be a Futura? 'Cause the roof appears to have the same 30° angle VW used on Golf/Rabbit hatch in the 70s.
I used Tin Eye to get a better look at that yellow car, it's a solar racer.
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