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Why is it that British truck designers didn't get the streamlining memo written to them by the American truck designers?
After WW2 the USA had made a lot of profit, the UK was bankrupt. Pressing flat steel panels was cheaper than ones with complex curves, it wasn't un-common to find horse and carts still in use in the early 50s so any lorry was better than no lorry! The Guy Otter was also looking dated, even by UK standards by '51, it was facelifted in '53.
Art Deco never really caught on for motor vehicle design in the UK either, plenty of cinemas and houses, no cars. :lol:
That is propperly awsome. I wouldn?t want to be the chrome-polish-guy before a car-show though ...
Yes Futurliner #8 is being restored here. So far they've spent four years and four million on it, and are about halfway finished. Shiny bits are stainless steel, unfortunately the rest isnt.
I wanna take one of these and make it in to a motorhome.
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Yep, the bright, hopeful outlook into the future after the technological revolutions of the fifties and the social revolutions of the sixties somehow changed into a dystopic, cynical, dark outlook in the seventies and eighties. See Hunter S. Thompson's "wave speech" as one of the earliest examples, followed by the grim-yet-cool world of Gibson's cyberpunk novels, the aptly-named early 80s song "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades" and the sentimental-yet-cynical look back to the fifties that is Fagen's "Nightfly" album./offtopic
This kind of makes me sad, I was watching some Neil DeGrasse Tyson videos in which he was saying how we used to look to the future with hope and everything was "of tomorrow" and the Futureliner is clearly an indication of that but now we look at it with fear
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It was sitting around in the previous owners yard in Chatsworth, California for a few decades. Chatsworth seems like a well off area, but white kids do grafitti too. The chance of it being black kids are only 3%, and we all know hispanics can't paint because they're busy picking cotton in the fields or making burgers or whatnot. The amount of rust, being California, is quite surprising. Before Jonsson tackled the Futurliner he did this one:
If it was in Chatsworth, that Futurliner may well have been the inspiration for the Gotham City paddy wagons from Batman: The Animated Series.
Oh shit, I didn't even realize that I think you are right on the money!If it was in Chatsworth, that Futurliner may well have been the inspiration for the Gotham City paddy wagons from Batman: The Animated Series.
Bruce Timm said that he used to drive by an old truck on his way to the Warner Brothers studios.