A nice easy Rookie point for identifying this car and when it appeared:
Is that a Egan design by any chance? The same guy who helped design the Tucker?
Alex Tremulis was the chief designer I think, maybe him?
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(http://photos.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_598/car_photo_299289_7.jpg)
AFAIK neither Egan nor Tremulis were involved in the design of the puzzle car.
All right then, an easy Expert point...
1954 Pontiac Strato Streak at the 1953 Motorama show.
Quote from: CyCarConsulting on April 18, 2010, 04:43:28 PM
1954 Pontiac Strato Streak at the 1953 Motorama show.
See - I told you it was easy!
And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:
And here's the original puzzle picture, un-doctored:
You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.
Quote from: Ray B. on April 19, 2010, 10:33:34 AM
You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.
Oops.. I didn't know that and seems no-one else did either - at least no Rookies!
Pretty car.
That 3-piece rear window was used on the 58 Vauxhall Velox/Cresta completely unchanged!
Oldsmobile and Buick also used that rear window configuration in '57. Oddly, Pontiac opted for a single-pane, wrap-around design.
And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.
Quote from: Ray B. on April 20, 2010, 04:12:36 AM
And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.
Guess so, although you can't tell from pictures.
The UK car would undoubtedly have been a 75% scale model of the US one, although I remember it being utterly outrageous over here back in 1958; but for small boys like me at the time it was The Way Forward!
Quote from: Carnut on April 18, 2010, 07:04:07 PM
And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:
Thanks, I thought it would be someone more obscure. :-[
In color