Bruce McCall ’s 2001 bookThe Last Dream - o - Ramais a brilliant , uproarious example of postmodern paleo - futurism ( an offensively academic condition I came up with to line co - opting past vision of the future ) .
With a subtitle of “ The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build , 1950 - 1960 ” this Good Book is gross parody . Although , side - by - side with the solemn concept drawing ofDriving Through Futures Past , one would be hard - compact to severalize the parody from the real thing .
The illustration above is called the “ HobbyPop RoadShop from 1958 ” which laud that Mom well drive fluent upstairs because , “ Dad ’s trying to build a birdhouse downstairs ! ” More excerpts from the ledger appear below .
El Scandinavia Mk XXX , 1956
“ The Look of Today , Tomorrow ! ” was Matterhorn Motors ’ promotional root for 1956 , and semanticists , at least those with both the time and inclination , still bicker over its precise meaning : a promise , or an IOU ?
Tomorrowrama
spread night of Matterhorn Motors ’ Futurific Tomorrowrama Cavalcade of Chrome , Detroit , October 1954 . Public hysteria top Orson Welles ’s 1938 wireless broadcast of War of the Worlds before Matterhorn announce that none of the dream cars on presentation would be produced for sales agreement .
Bossmobile Gal Friday Execustreak , 1958
Bulgemobile Corp. decided to give the busy Fifties executive the break he needed with its premier dreaming elevator car for the ’ 58 season . Enter the fabulous Bossmobile , where the high - salaried corporate grownup shot could baby-sit back , support his three - martini tiffin , and prescribe memos or gab to his golf pro on the portable Electrofone or just uncap the Johnny Walker in the lower right-hand - paw desk drawer for a bracing nip or three before the Bossmobile deposited him at his split - level suburban home in time for cocktail time of day .
See also : Gyroscopic Rocket Car ( 1945)GM ’s Three - Wheeled Runabout ( 1966)Postmodern Paleo - FutureGM Car of the Future ( 1962)Automobiles of the Future ( 1966)Postmodern Paleo - Future Art
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