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Title: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on April 28, 2007, 06:08:48 AM
Can anyone tell me something about that?
Title: Re: Futurama
Post by: SeaLion on April 28, 2007, 07:02:56 AM
It is the Simca Fulgur from 1958. It should have 2 rear electric motors and an inboard electronic brain with an auto pilot system that commucated with a central control tower. At high speed the electricity would be transfered from the road by induction and at speeds over 150 km/h the front wheels would retract. And so on and so on ...
Title: Re: Futurama
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 28, 2007, 07:27:38 AM
Wow - a quick ID of a car I've never seen before.  :applause:
Title: Re: Futurama
Post by: grobmotorix on April 28, 2007, 09:26:57 AM
I´m stunned, too!!!

well I´ll move it now, but I don´t think many others would have known this intantly.

SeaLion  - my deepest respect...
Title: Re: Futurama, instantly detected by Sealion! Simca Fulgur 1958
Post by: Motorace on May 02, 2007, 02:22:40 AM
And I thought it was a short-wheelbase Fouga Magister(http://www.fouga.net/fouga-bw.jpg)
Title: Re: Futurama, instantly detected by Sealion! Simca Fulgur 1958
Post by: GRAYWOLF on May 02, 2007, 10:29:46 AM
Quote from: SeaLion on April 28, 2007, 07:02:56 AM
at speeds over 150 km/h


That comes out to 25MPH, right!!!
:lmao:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 05, 2011, 04:19:09 AM
period pic
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: qwaszx on June 05, 2011, 07:23:24 AM
Design by a young Robert Opron, father of Citroen GS, SM...
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on June 06, 2011, 12:21:09 PM
I´ve never seen a side view before - now I know why... ;)
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on February 05, 2012, 05:35:48 PM
A police checkpoint scene shows how spectecular the design must have been in 58:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Oguerrerob on February 13, 2012, 06:53:18 AM
Rear view
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on February 13, 2012, 07:07:31 AM
They should have changed the front end into the rear, and the rear to the front, really...
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 13, 2012, 09:39:06 AM
Add some headlights, remove the wing, and the rear would look like the front of a Pontiac Grand Am, circa 1973
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on February 13, 2012, 01:32:45 PM
Another rare photo:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on April 10, 2013, 02:07:48 PM
A 1959 photo:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 10, 2016, 05:26:15 AM
One more period pic.
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Oguerrerob on November 10, 2016, 02:03:20 AM
Ticketing
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on November 10, 2016, 02:07:14 AM
Brilliant  ;D
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on November 10, 2016, 02:09:06 AM
There even was a Fulgur brochure:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: Oguerrerob on November 10, 2016, 02:16:12 AM
Apparently some people bought it!! :drive:
Title: Re: Simca Fulgur concept car 1958
Post by: grobmotorix on May 04, 2018, 03:28:19 PM
A wonderful scale model shown at fairs back then:
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