The VW-Porsche Escher Kleinbahn was a series of small trains produced from 1954 to 1971 for use in parks and botanical gardens. These...

The Tatra 603 was a luxury car produced by Czechoslovakian automaker Tatra from 1956 to 1975. It was the third model in the Tatra 600...

One of the most beautiful English cars in the fifties was the Alvis TD21, a four-seater sedan with a sleek, two-door body. Initially...

In 1937 the Maserati brothers sold their company to industrialist Adolfo Orsi. Not long after the war ended, they decided their real...

One of several gas-turbine-powered cars Rover and BRM worked on in the late 50s and early 60s, the T4 was based on a Rover P6 prototype....

Born in Turin, Italy, in the last year of World War I, Virgilio Conrero served as a mechanic in the Regia Aeronautica during the next...

The 1961 Toyota Toyopet X was a prototype coupé using a 2nd generation Crown chassis and engine based on an earlier Pininfarina concept...

A concept for a sports car that would have fitted below the Corvette in the GM hierarchy. It used a shortened Tempest drivetrain which...

Legendary designer, Virgil Exner Sr.’s tenure at Chrysler was nearing an end in the early 1960s, as his flamboyant Space Age tendencies...

In 1937 the three surviving Maserati brothers sold out to the Orsi Group and, after WW2, founded Officine Specializzate per la...

In the early 1960s, industrial designer Rodolfo Bonetto designed numerous cars for Boneschi. Bonetto became one the greatest Italian...

A one-off open OSCA 1500 built by Fissore and designed by Giovanni Michelotti, who is pictured with the car. It was presented at the...

Little is known about this one-off based on the BMC Morris Minor (Mini). The design is attributed to Ercole Spada, and the execution was,...

In the early 1960s, industrial designer Rodolfo Bonetto designed numerous cars for Boneschi. Bonetto became one the greatest Italian...

1961 saw Tom Tjaarda resign, a decision usually attributed to friction with another American designer, Virgil Exner Junior (the father...

A gyroscopically controlled two-wheeled car called the Gyron. However, the two-wheeled Gyron would consume much of Tremulis’s effort and...

Pininfarina's new Project Y. Succeeding last year's Project X, which had fore and aft wheels mounted on the center line and two side...

Casaroll and company made this car. Production was only 26 cars, built only as a glassy two-door hardtop with styling by Ghia. The front...

The Dodge Flite-Wing was a concept car built by Dodge in 1961. The Flite-Wing was unveiled in New York’s Central Park on Dec. 5, 1961....

The radical two-door coupe with a retractable flight cockpit-style roof canopy featured a prominent winged spoiler high over the rear...

In 1960, the Carrozzeria Vignale was commissioned by the American stylist Gordon Kelly to undertake the fabrication of a one-off...

The XP-737 Sebring Spyder roadster was built in three basic versions by GM Styling, all based on the same car and all with a wheelbase...

Cadillac Brougham Coupé Speciale 2 posti "Jacqueline," 1961 - PF's coupe was built in honor of America's first lady, Jacqueline...

The 1961 La Salle concept was also known as XP-715, following the General Motors custom of assigning 'experimental' cars XP numbers. The...