Thanks for posting! The car designers were sure able to let their imaginations run wild back then! I'm sure those bubble top cars would have roasted the driver with the top closed!
Those were the days designers could use their creativeness to design these cars. Not like today, where all the new designers graduated from the same school and with no imagination!
Just Google Kustom cars and you can see the movement that concept cars started. And the movement is strong.
It's too bad, unfortunate & sad many of these "Dream" cars didn't survive their fate of the "Crusher". The ACTUAL history of the CAR is totally gone except for the "Survivors" of this time. Thankfully Buick still have some of these cars. AND, it's not just 40's, 50's & 60's as seen by the 1938 Buick Y-Job. Just my observations. Tom T.
Many of those cars were built as styling exercises only. Some didn't even run. That was not the case with Buick's Y-Job which Harley Earl used as his regular transportation, and Chrysler's turbine cars which were loaned to some regular Chrysler buyers for evaluation. I believe that Jay Leno has the only one that Chrysler ever sold. It still runs.
