#A069 by Amsterdam SOLVED: 1955 Disneyland Prototype Autopia Car

[Amsterdam]

Can you tell me what this is? Please repond below and if you are right on this I will award you with one point

[Amsterdam]

Experts?

[guido66]

electric?

[Amsterdam]

AFAIK... Yes

[Otto Puzzell]

I don't think so - at least not the ones I drove.

[guido66]

Pedal powered, then?

[Amsterdam]

Sorry for my mistake. clearly I have never been there
seems like it has a small engine using ordinary gas as fuel

[guido66]

Are they used on a resort of some sort?

[Amsterdam]

Yes something like that, althoug this pariticular one was never used there. The ones that where used needed some protective body modification.

[guido66]

Oversized bumper cars?

[Amsterdam]

Yes they needed some protective bumpers

[guido66]

Used to play car soccer?

[Amsterdam]

Good idea!!....don't think it is allowed though

[guido66]

Golf cart?

[Amsterdam]

No not a golfcart.

[CyCarConsulting]

Can you tell me what this is? Please repond below and if you are right on this I will award you with one point

EXCELSIOR AMUSEMENT PARK GO KART

[Amsterdam]

Amusement park...yes.
Exelsior go cart.....no.

[Amsterdam]

Professionals?

[João]

1954-55 Autopia Prototype Car?

[Amsterdam]

Yes! the 1955  Disneyland Prototype Autopia Car.
That makes a nice round score of 250 points

[Otto Puzzell]

I know the first car you pictured as the Cedar Point (Ohio amusement park) Turnpike cars, built by Arrow Development Co., of Mountainview, California. They also built the Autopia cars for Disneyland. The second group of pics represents the Mk I Autopia car.

[Amsterdam]

Hmm, that is strange. I have found the photo on a site that goes with an article in wich the reporter made this picture at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Fransisco.

Quote:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Autopian Paradise
Not long ago I had the opportunity to preview the new  Walt Disney Family Museum opening in San Francisco this fall.   This 1954 prototype Autopia car is a total charmer.  Sporting a deluxe red and silver paint job, cushioned seat, dashboard gages, and sealed beam headlights, the little car is a donation to the museum from Walt's own grandkids.

Is it possible that a Cedar Point Turnpike car was purposed by Arrow Development Co to Walt Disney as a prototype for the Autopia car?, as the one in the picture never made it to the parc.
According to the site it was owned by Walt Disney and a donation to the museum from Walt's own grandkids and shown at the Walt Disney Family Museum in picture below.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm pretty sure Disneyland had them first. Similar cars and tracks were sold to other amusement parks by Arrow. I saw the site where you pulled the picture; and I'm pretty sure he mislabeled the picture you used in your puzzle post. In Disneyland parlance, that's a Tomorrowland Mark VI Autopia car, which is the same as the Cedar Point Car. The ride opened at Cedar Point in (I believe) 1967.

These 7 HP rear-engined screamers were favorites of my kids when we visited Cedar Point. The picture below shows a grouping of the cars at Tomorrowland, in the shadow of the Monorail.

[Amsterdam]

So the car I have posted is a Tomorrowland Mark VI Autopia car?

[Carnut]

Nice pic: