Virgil exner 1958 ford thunderbird full size#

I’d say that it took well into the 1960s for car designers and customizers to realize that clear plastic roofs make for an uncomfortabley hot car on sunny days. They slapped two tone paint on the old stallion and mare and gave them clear Plexiglas roofs and put them on the show circuit to help move some metal.

Virgil exner 1958 ford thunderbird full size#

Virgil Exner’s “idea cars” for Chrysler, usually made by Ghia, gave consumers an idea of what future Chrysler products might look like but in the meantime, they still had to sell current production cars and by 1954, the full size Chryslers were six years old. Because of three or more years of lead time in the production of a new car, it takes years for a chief stylist to make a personal imprint on a company’s styling. Spare me the lecture about how the La Comtesse and Dodge La Femme were sexist (see L.P. The 1954 Chrysler La Comtesse was was a companion car to the Le Comte. The P-38 made it’s way into automobile designing seven years later in 1948. Harley Earl was an aircraft buff and his inspiration for the 1948 Cadillac came directly from the dual tailfins of the P-38 Lightning he first viewed in 1941. We continue with barely known Chrysler, Dodge and Ford concepts. It was this out of the ordinary auto design that was largely responsible for the auto fin craze of the 1950’s. The second generation Ford Thunderbird (also called Square Bird) was produced by Ford for the 1958 to 1960 model years as a successor to the popular 19551957 two-seater. I delight in the obscure and the unusual, figuring that not everyone needs more pics of ’69 Camaros or ’58 Isettas. which were part of Chrysler designer Virgil Exners forward look.

Yesterday, we started are look through concept and show cars from major car companies that may have slipped your attention by being rather obscure. Long before Fords Thunderbird grew into a full-size luxury coupe with long hood and.