What happened to all the crazy 1950s design cues? It's like all imagination in creating cars died by the mid 60s. Top is a 1956 bel air and bottom is a 1966 bel air. In those 10 years a bunch of stuff disappeared in basically all cars like the bubble windshield, the crazy 2 tone paintjobs, the crazy bumpers, the shape of the side windows, the white wall tires, and so much more. What happened?
i guess it just came out of style and wasnt modern anymore
Have you heard?
They're alive and well at Chrysler
Taste changed.
Look at the change in design between the boxes of the 80s and the smooth curves of cars in the 90s. At the moment car design is a hybrid of the 2, with sharp angles and smooth curves combing
pony/muscle cars happened. Mustang hit the streets and giant fins and whitewalls went out the window.
>>15421768
Mustang was built after the design cues already changed.
>tfw you will never buy a modern made 1950's style boat car
>you will never buy a 5500lbs car with white tires
>you will never buy a 20+ft with huge tailfins at the back
>you will never buy a car with an 8+ liter naturally aspirated V8 and 3 speed automatic
>you will never buy a car with torpedo bumpers
>no car will have all of these things at once
it hurts /o/
>>15422074
I want this in pastel blue so fucking hard.
>>15421279
Safety regulations. Look up 'Unsafe at any speed'; that's what caused changes.
50s style is worst style
its like they were completely tasteless and just tacked stuff on like a child
>>15422074
>you will never buy a car with an 8+ liter naturally aspirated V8 and 3 speed automatic
That's almost 500 cu. in, isn't it? So your choices are Cadillac and not much else.
>>15422954
Cadillac had a 8.2 that pushed out an, at best, 235hp.
But yeah he could just get some 70s shitbox Cadi
>>15422898
>Look up 'Unsafe at any speed'
>implying it's not factually wrong.
Yes, interiors were designed to leave nothing alive in the event of a fender bender but the fact that modern cars use the same suspension setups as Corvairs really shows what a tool Nader is.
>>15422963
How many torques?
>>15423028
around 400 lb ft
keep in mind its in a 5000+ lb fwd
You do realize that you can still drive these cars and build one for less than the cost of most modern cars.
Muh 4500lb car's torque engine
>>15423253
...please clean that
The economy slowing down from its post-war boom overdrive and money not raining from the skies anymore happened, along with people's space age imagination sobering up. The '50s were a period of absolutely extraordinary wealth and growth that's impossible to use as a standard for comparisons.
>>15423232
They are pretty drivable but spare parts demand a premium and most have boomer taxes.
>>15423259
it's worth more in that condition lol
>>15422994
>the same suspension setups as Corvairs
Show me a modern car that still uses swing axles, especially with a rear mounted engine that completely fucks the weight distribution.
>>15423259
In the (long) process of restoring the whole car.
>>15423268
Early models used sway bars and the handling is superb even on them.
Late models used IRS.
They aren't carbon copies of modern suspension but the fact is Corvairs were well ahead of their time.
>completely fucks the weight distribution.
Until a yuro reminded Americans that RR should have low tire pressures in the front and normal pressures in the back.
>>15423302
IRS doesn't exclude the presence of swing axles. And while I do fully recognize (and partially appreciate) the boldness displayed by presenting the Corvair (and Tempest for that matter) at such a time in such a country, full independent suspension wasn't exactly new by 1960, only in ladder framed, solid axled Murrika it was. Lancia had sliding pillar independent suspension in production cars in the mid '20s, and by later decades many other European manufacturers caught up while the Americans were still busy finding the biggest fins.
The 440 Cu. In. engine in my daily driver.
>>15422954
>>15422963
No car has all those features at the same time though, even the biggest Cadillacs and Lincolns weren't that heavy and shit.
To have a complete throwback that would exceed the opulence of the old luxury classics would be just amazing.
>>15423300
Saw you in the classic car thread the roofs pretty fucked what car is that btw
Beige Boat, standing by.
>>15425782
72 Buick Riviera "Boat-Tail"
