1951 GM LeSabre concept car

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The headlight array looks like a pig snout. The jet engine exhaust nozzle on the rear is, uhm, uhm… No apparent back seat despite overall land yacht wheelbase dimensions. No apparent trunk.

The overall design looks much like a Batmobile. And yet, easy to see design elements that showed up in production GM cars within a few years.

Got the image off Facebook where it was posted in the MidCentury Atomic Age Vintage Retro Culture and Ads, so cannot vouch for the accuracy of the purported origin. Accurate or not, it is an … interesting … vehicle.

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I wonder if that’s where ford got the idea for the edsel grill?

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@bing Apparently the design folks at GM and Ford were both imbibing from the same rocket age vapors. :grin:

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The tail fins are what I’ve heard described as belch fire tail fins.

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Jay Leno buys pink panthermobile

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@Barkydog That bizarre thing is Pepto Dismal Pink, just like Mary Kay Cosmetics dealer cars were. :crazy_face::rofl:

The front end looks like an unholy mix of vacuum hose and an anteater snout. :flushed::thinking::grin:

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It seems like in many things inventors simulate nature. In this case I thing the designer ran across an ant eater.

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Don’t forget the early 1950s Studebaker.

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I seem to recall even some production cars from the late 50s early 60s had the jet-engine-appearing rear end. On the 51 concept car, overall, the rear end looks ok, within reason, but I’m not at all keen on the front end. I wonder if one person designed the front, and another designed the rear?

Other than the tiny lights below the main headlights, sort of throws off the symmetry, the red Studebaker looks pretty modern and classy.

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Well, Studebaker was, “First by far with a post-war car”!

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