Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts

6.30.2010

The variety in the few AMX3 concept cars made, 10 total I've read, but interestingly not alike in tail lights, and rear deck




Above image 2007 Meadow Brook Concours

Above images 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed by Ilya Holt and from 2007 Meadow Brook Concours




Above 4 images were taken in 2004, at the Bizzarini Expo in Brussels by Dirk de Jager and all the above photos are from http://www.supercars.net/cars/2982.html




Notice the above museum car has a side marker light behind the rear wheel that only one of of the following do.

Lower door racing stripe and AMX 3 callout looks really good, and the rear deck styled partition with air foil over the tailights




Really don't like the above rims.




images from my many posts on the AMX 3... I hope you take a moment to see the differences in these different models, the bottom one having the coolest looking wheels, but I bet it's a mock up with no real car parts, and it looks like the model is in the design studio for a photo op.

Notice it doesn't have a gas cap like the yellow model directly above it, and the rocker panel is black with the AMX 3 call out looking really nice. Different tailights too.

From the Supercars website story on the AMX3:
Giotto Bizzarrini, of ex-Ferrari fame, was specifically responsible for making a production worthy AMX/3 out of the show queen AMX/2. What would have been a challenging build for AMC, was easily handled by Bizzarrini who was very familiar with race car design
and construction, particularly on a tight budget.

Bizzarrini's final AMX/3 featured the hallmark of sports engineering, a mid-mounted engine and rear transaxle. The Italian firm Melara developed the new gearbox while BMW completed final testing on the roadworthy AMX/3. It seemed AMC was serious about production. From a design standpoint, the AMC/3 was remarkably similar to Ford's DeTomaso Pantera which debuted just one day after the AMX/3. Such timely releases made it unclear exactly who copied who, but in any case, the casual observer can easily mistake the AMX/3 with a Pantera.

Due to the successful launch, and low price of the Pantera, AMC scrapped the AMX/3 project. Bizzarrini was ordered to destroy all six cars, which he, of course, did not.

6.05.2010

Larry Shinoda designed vehicles

With Gurney Westlake 520hp V8 engine, it was capable of 150mph. The original design for this was done on the napkins at a hamburger restaurant.

Econoline ‘Kilimanjaro’ safari van, 1969 show car. Front wheel drive

1969 Ford Mach II design

1969 car show Torino Super Cobra front and back

3.31.2009

the beauty of designs, part 2 of "online Concours de Elegance" I started last July, here are the Pre WW2 vehicles

1903 Ford model a runabout

1904 Auburn runabout
1909 highwheeler

1910 Hotchkiss Type V

1910 Baker Electric Victoria Roadster

1911 Leon-Bollee G1 Double Berline de Voyage

1921 Farman Super Sport Torpedo

1923 Kissel Model 6-45 Speedster

1925 Rolls-Royce P1 Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/1925-rolls-royce-aerodynamic-coupe.html

1927 Voisin C7 sedan

1929 Ruxton Roadster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/ruxton-legendary-in-classic-american.html

1929 Alfa Romeo 6c1750 supersport

1929 Du Pont Model G Speedster

1931 Bucciali Tav-8-32 Sedan by Saotchik

1931 Packard Waterhouse Convertible Victoria

1932 Daimler Double-Six Sport Saloon

1933 Mitsubishi PX33 4WD Diesel
1934 Hupmobile Aerodynamic

1936 Panhard Dynamic

1937 Chrysler Airflow

1937 Willys sedan

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta coachwork by Touring