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The Firebird XP-21 was the first gas turbine-powered car built and tested in the United States. At the 1954 Motorama, General Motors made it clear this was a design study created to determine the practicality of the gas turbine for use in future vehicles. This major exhibition of innovative automotive design will bring together 17 concept cars from across Europe and the U.S., including some of the rarest and most imaginative cars designed by Ferrari, Bugatti, General Motors and Porsche. Dream Cars will feature cars from the early 1930s to the 21st century that pushed the limits of imagination and foreshadowed the future of design. The exhibition will pair conceptual drawings, patents and scale models with realized cars, demonstrating how their experimental designs advanced ideas of progress and changed the automobile from an object of function to a symbol of future possibilities.
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After the close of World War II, General Motors needed a new head-turning car. Sketches began in 1946, and by 1951 the result was the Le Sabre XP-8, a dazzling, high-tech concept two-seater that looked unlike anything else on the road. GM hailed the car as "a mobile experiment, a flexible project" in its promotional material, Experimental Laboratory On Wheels.
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After the close of World War II, General Motors needed a new head-turning car. Sketches began in 1946, and by 1951 the result was the Le Sabre XP-8, a dazzling, high-tech concept two-seater that looked unlike anything else on the road. GM hailed the car as "a mobile experiment, a flexible project" in its promotional material, Experimental Laboratory On Wheels.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
After the close of World War II, General Motors needed a new head-turning car. Sketches began in 1946, and by 1951 the result was the Le Sabre XP-8, a dazzling, high-tech concept two-seater that looked unlike anything else on the road. GM hailed the car as "a mobile experiment, a flexible project" in its promotional material, Experimental Laboratory On Wheels.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
After the close of World War II, General Motors needed a new head-turning car. Sketches began in 1946, and by 1951 the result was the Le Sabre XP-8, a dazzling, high-tech concept two-seater that looked unlike anything else on the road. GM hailed the car as "a mobile experiment, a flexible project" in its promotional material, Experimental Laboratory On Wheels.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
After the close of World War II, General Motors needed a new head-turning car. Sketches began in 1946, and by 1951 the result was the Le Sabre XP-8, a dazzling, high-tech concept two-seater that looked unlike anything else on the road. GM hailed the car as "a mobile experiment, a flexible project" in its promotional material, Experimental Laboratory On Wheels.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Mechanical engineer Norman Timbs created the Timbs Special for his personal use. A visually arresting automobile that epitomized grace and speed, the car articulated the ideas of streamlining and wind resistance with its elongated, curvilinear forms and seemingly single-piece body. It had no doors and was composed of two hand-formed aluminum shapes. To create this form, Timbs started with drawings, followed by quarter-scale clay models, and then a full-scale body buck (wooden frame) over which the aluminum panels were shaped and then welded together.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Mechanical engineer Norman Timbs created the Timbs Special for his personal use. A visually arresting automobile that epitomized grace and speed, the car articulated the ideas of streamlining and wind resistance with its elongated, curvilinear forms and seemingly single-piece body. It had no doors and was composed of two hand-formed aluminum shapes. To create this form, Timbs started with drawings, followed by quarter-scale clay models, and then a full-scale body buck (wooden frame) over which the aluminum panels were shaped and then welded together.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Mechanical engineer Norman Timbs created the Timbs Special for his personal use. A visually arresting automobile that epitomized grace and speed, the car articulated the ideas of streamlining and wind resistance with its elongated, curvilinear forms and seemingly single-piece body. It had no doors and was composed of two hand-formed aluminum shapes. To create this form, Timbs started with drawings, followed by quarter-scale clay models, and then a full-scale body buck (wooden frame) over which the aluminum panels were shaped and then welded together.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
Mechanical engineer Norman Timbs created the Timbs Special for his personal use. A visually arresting automobile that epitomized grace and speed, the car articulated the ideas of streamlining and wind resistance with its elongated, curvilinear forms and seemingly single-piece body. It had no doors and was composed of two hand-formed aluminum shapes. To create this form, Timbs started with drawings, followed by quarter-scale clay models, and then a full-scale body buck (wooden frame) over which the aluminum panels were shaped and then welded together.
HYOSUB SHIN / AJC
In 1934, Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company and son of Henry Ford, desired a sleek "Continental" car based on European styles he had seen during his travels abroad. He asked Ford Motor Company's styling chief Eugene "Bob" Gregorie to help design what he envisioned. Gregorie sketched a few alternatives and built a model, which he tested in a small wind tunnel. The bodywork followed the best aircraft practice, being light and very strong
