?..

[Brock Samson]

along a similar vein...



howabout the last A Body ever built?..
http://www.allpar.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=111468

[Brock Samson]

There was only one EXAR-1 ever made and it was rooted in a BMW prototype. BMW commissioned Frua to do the 3.0Si concept for debut at the '75 Turin Auto Show. Frua's internal project number for the car was 374. A few years later, Frua somehow reacquired the car from BMW. Ramirez hasn't yet told me how or why he contacted Frua during the EXAR development, but the bottom line is that Frua slightly redesigned the front of the car to accommodate the electric motor and electronic controls and then shipped it to Ramirez in Texas. Frua's project number for the EXAR was 374-2E (makes sense) and it was the last completed project to come out of his shop before he fell ill and eventually passed away. The production cars were intended to be Kevlar-bodied copies taken from molds of this car, but Amectran never got that far.

Was it a scam or a conspiracy? I don't know for sure but Ed Ramirez is pretty convincing when he talks about it and the fact is that that the Secretaries of Commerce and the DOT were in his corner. Regardless, it's a great story and an important footnote in automotive history. It is also especially timely today when alternative powered cars are all the rage. Whether it could have ever been successfully produced, the prototype EXAR-1 showed the world thirty years ago that you could a modern, beautiful, comfortable and useful "electronic" automobile.

The car was in perfect condition when the feds seized it in '93. It was sold at government auction in '97 and subsequently tragically cannibalized and abused (someone even tried to add a 944 body kit. Fortunately, the Frua archives in Germany has the original blueprints and the BMW Zentrum has expressed some interest in helping. My goal is to get it back to its original glory and have it placed in a highly visible museum, not necessarily in that order. Unlike the 376mpg Opel, it will never be sold again. I also think the Amectran story would be fun to bring forward. Ed Ramirez is alive and well, lots of fun to speak with and you can literally feel his passion for the car and the project. When I told him that I had a factory poster of the car hanging in my offices, he almost became speechless.

The good news is that most of the original body is under the mods and the car is truly rust-free. Better yet, the original Frua build tag is still intact.


http://www.amectran.com/amectran.htm



1969 Detriot auto show....




Hey you General Lee guys! Your seats are over there to the left...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bossmustang/sets/72157609164793335/

[Brock Samson]

[jb666]

WOW!! Those are some awesome pictures, thanks for posting them up!!! 

[oldrock]

+1 cool pics! lets see some more.

[Brock Samson]

[Brock Samson]

[Brock Samson]

here's the sauce..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwilli/tags/charger/    

[Brock Samson]

 it's a ford...  












Cordoba De Oro... yup a Chrysler


'70 Poncho Grand Prix proposal in clay




Bill Mitchell of G.M. did this late '60s.


Olds Thor '67.


'63 Rivi Sketch..
and another




'57 Chrysler

'62 full sized plymouth


this side looks alot better.. 

[Ghoste]

There was a lot of interest in taking the long hood short deck theme to the next level for a while wasn't there?

[Brock Samson]

Seems Ma MOPAR didn't have exclusive use of the ugly stick... 

'59 buick


'59 Impala and Olds... These were the designs GM quick shelved when a spy from GM design spied the Mopar "Forward Look" cars..



1958 IMPERIAL this is the one with the spare tire embossed on the trunk.. 

a '70 Ford Pinto Proposal

and another


to me it looks like a cross between a camaro a firebird and a AMX,.. kinda'..

[Brock Samson]

[oldrock]

those are some wild cars. Whats up with that green one? Reminds me of a hotwheel I had as a kid.

[Brock Samson]

 that "Green One" is the "El Gato" (the cat) a show car for mercury in '70..





more mercury cougars dating from 1956 here..





http://www.coolcats.net/welcome/conceptmodels.html



just a cool pic..



and BTW there's this with more photos of proposed Cudas and Challengers which were not to be...
here

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,47575.msg519354/topicseen.html#msg519354




http://[imghttp://www.pontiacpower.net/pictures/71elgto1.jpg[/img]http://http://[imghttp://w2.ccaq.com/CCAM/SiteWeb/Site%20SIAM/1973%20Bonaventure2.jpg[/img]http://[/img]

a garagew full of italian/english/american hybreds from the '69/70 time frame including some pretty rare celeb cars
http://gallery.me.com/joltnjoe
i see google chrome loves to scramble these links....  
i don't what that's about..  
but it sure don't like forward slashes...
if you can fix them, there are '69 dodge car show displays and art at the links which i can't seem to fix.
and many of which don't even show up once the page is posted...
i guess chrome still has issues...

[oldrock]

some very cool cars!

[Brock Samson]

that post sure got scrambeled..



chrome likes to leave out the last character...  in this case the ] when I

seems i can't get the cursor to advance beyond the last keystroke once "paste" is selected...
wow,.. just wow...
and some links and irls just don't appear once posted...
if you [ img] stuff just goes invisable...






 

the fix is to first paste, then bracket with [ img]s
\i guess it's safe to say google chrome still has...

[BBKNARF]

Monkee Mobile 66 GTO, Madmax Ford Falcon, 68 Charger from Blade

[Brock Samson]

    









 







sadly it appears most photos hoasted on photobucket are now 404 so if you have a PB account you may wish to check to see if you need to save your pics.

[Brock Samson]

 

[Brock Samson]

[Brock Samson]

  

this was supposed to be a link for a fast backed road racing early '60s Nova they made three of and ended up being a drag car...
but... 

[Brock Samson]

 
 cool pics to be found here at the street scenes thread.  
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1

































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[b5blue]

 

[Manfred318]

 

[Brock Samson]

what can I say,..  the links they die...
'n I just dig digging up old show cars... and concepts and race cars..  

here's a good read..

http://993c4s.com/cars/porsche-prototypes/what-happened-to-the-porsche-tapiro/