GM did display some concept cars that featured crisply-streamlined shapes of the sort its styling group was playing with under Bill Mitchell's direction. I'll probably get around to treating some of them in detail in a future post.
For now, I thought I'd post some photos I took when I visited the fair in June of 1965.
Fairgoers crossing over Grand Central Parkway with the General Motors pavilion in the background.
Inside, we find this abstract shape illustrating the long-range theme GM stylists focused on in the early 1960s when the concept cars were being designed.
GM photo of the three-wheeled Runabout -- an "urban car" 30 or 40 years ahead of its time.
Two photos of the Runabout that I took.
Firebird IV. This was supposedly to be gas turbine powered like previous Firebirds, but actually was a "pushmobile." GM photo.
My photo of the displayed Firebrid IV.
GM-X Stiletto, another of the three non-functional concept cars. GM publicity photo.
The Stiletto as I saw it in 1965.
1 comment:
I was at the worlds fair in 1965.l was 18. I remember vividly an electric blue car, to me it looked like something from another world
I was from England on vacation with my sister who lived in Penna.
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