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Vehicle & Technical => Not Anything Listed Above.... => Topic started by: Bush Tucker Man on October 25, 2006, 23:19:50
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I picked up an old copy of 'Classic & Sports Car' in one of the waiting rooms this morning.
There was an article about a wonderful 1950's machine that I'd seen once or twice before;
The Futurliners (http://www.futurliner.com/)
What an amazing sight it must have been to see all 12 together in convoy :D :D :D
I know they're the product of the 50's design studios obsession with streamlining & the suggestion of futuristic/space travel*, but they also could have been the product of the 1930s & the time of the wonderful style of Art-Deco, with perhaps a nod to the Bauhaus studios (if a little too decorated for them?)
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Think also, the 1955 Lincoln Futura (http://www.1966batmobile.com/background.htm) concept car, which gained a far wider audience than its designer ever envisaged
Plus, the 'Dark-Deco' styling of the animation in the 1990's Warner Brothers; BatMan (http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/)