Thursday, June 5, 2025

Never again will car design be this wild

 


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  1. Must been fun building the mockups. Be neat to see the various ones that where rejected.

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  2. Bought a set of those caddy boolit tail lights, just to build a whole one off custom bike from scratch around them. Start from setting them at a jaunty upwards angle at the very back, up behind the seat section. use that architectural angle as the starting point for frame and swing arm, even the fuel tank.

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  3. What the other commentors are saying is, it never was this wild. This is a 62 Tbird light modified with a 59 Caddy center.
    So actually, it's wilder now then it was then!

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    1. My first thought was T Bird

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    2. Just being curious: how do you identify it as a 62 T-Bird with the fender trims removed?

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  4. My parents had a '63 T-bird with similar tail lights. And I have been behind Hyundai Telluride SUVs that have dog bone-shaped tail lights. Indeed, stupid has replaced interesting.

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  5. I have the 59 caddy tail lights on my 59 Ford and I tunneled those lights into the fenders on my 39 Ford pickup and my 1960 Ford pickup.

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  6. I have 1959 Caddy taillights as bathroom decorations, I wish I could show you pictures of my "Cadillac of bathrooms" because it's pink with '59 Cad's festooning it in many ways.

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  7. If that was the front they would have called them Mansfields

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  8. Back when rockets were fairly new on the scene so lets design a taillight that looks like the afterburners are on.

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