A post war trauma, influences from aerodynamics and aircraft industry all combined with a little bit of space travel dreams of that time resulted in this futuristic and sometimes even in a bit weird shapes. I think it’s absolutely fascinating!

The Bocar was produced between 1957-1961 by Bob Carnes. There are just couple of survivors.  Today the car would qualify as near-super car ranking as based on performance according to wikipedia.

1964 CD Panhard LM64

is a rare race car prototype designed by Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer.

Lancia Stratos HF prototype

1956 GM Firebird-II Concept

Cadillac LaSalle II – 1955

Ford La Tosca – 1955

Lincoln Futura – 1955

1956 Dodge Dart

Oldsmobile Golden Rocket – 1956

Pontiac Club De Mer – 1956

Ford X 2000 – 1958

Cadillac Cyclone – 1959

Ford Gyron – 1961

Pontiac Cirrus – 1969

“Rizk Auto RA”  might look like one from the 50’s but it’s from 2009.  The body is made of some space materials. So it makes it suitable for this post