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Never seen these before
« on: January 25, 2013, 12:29:43 PM »
Was trawling the net and came across this pic.  A couple in the pic I never knew existed. Anybody know anything about some of the cars in this shot?.............



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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 04:21:01 PM »
I've seen that shot before, probably in one of my DVDs on Corvette history.

The wagon is the Corvette Nomad concept vehicle, unveiled at the GM Motorama 1954  ... back in the heyday of Harley Earl.


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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2013, 04:22:03 PM »
Aren't they BMW's ?

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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2013, 04:23:36 PM »
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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2013, 04:53:56 PM »
I've seen that shot before, probably in one of my DVDs on Corvette history.

The wagon is the Corvette Nomad, unveiled at the GM Motorama 1954  ... back in the heyday of Harley Earl.

Cool :thumb:

What about the one below that? It looks like a fast back.

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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2013, 10:28:26 AM »
I've seen that shot before, probably in one of my DVDs on Corvette history.

The wagon is the Corvette Nomad concept vehicle, unveiled at the GM Motorama 1954  ... back in the heyday of Harley Earl.




Wow, I wonder who has those cars in their collection now

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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2013, 02:26:44 PM »
Wow, I wonder who has those cars in their collection now

If they weren't destroyed they may have ended up here:

http://www.gmheritagecenter.com/about-gm-heritage-center/index.html

The reason any concept cars have survived is usually because a GM employee disobeyed/disregarded a destroy order and hid the car somewhere in GM's vast storehouses for years, if not decades.
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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2013, 02:33:39 PM »
Cool :thumb:

What about the one below that? It looks like a fast back.

I gather that was also displayed at the 1954 Motorama:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smuckatelli/6152677849/
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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2013, 02:55:38 PM »
If they weren't destroyed they may have ended up here:

http://www.gmheritagecenter.com/about-gm-heritage-center/index.html

The reason any concept cars have survived is usually because a GM employee disobeyed/disregarded a destroy order and hid the car somewhere in GM's vast storehouses for years, if not decades.
The reason any concept cars have survived is usually because a GM employee disobeyed/disregarded a destroy order and hid the car somewhere in GM's vast storehouses for years, if not decades.


Ive seen that before too! A freind of mine "Aquired" 5 factory honda RC45's befor they went to the crusher. he paid a honda employee 1000 pounds to "take them of his hands and remain a secret" !!
Dam things are virtually pricless now, and a couple of them still make an apearence at the Isle of Man TT. What a score!:)

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Re: Never seen these before
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2013, 11:33:47 AM »
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