Need help identifying this "car"

[midnightfett]

I took these at the Peterson Auto Museum in Los Angeles. This is a 1957 STUDEBAKER-PACKARD Astral concept Atomic Car. Does anyone know if this was used in a movie or T.V. show? Or was there something that looks likes this used. This thing seems very familiar to me but I can't remember where I've seen it. Thanks.

 

[Contec]

Remind me of the Landspeeder from starwars.

 

[CustomCreations]

Looks like a Lost In Space or Forbidden Planet design.

( I was thinking Logans Run until I saw the fin at the back)

 

[Tiberius Kirk]

Jetsons?

 

[dbuck]

Doesn't look like anything I've ever seen either, except as you say, possible inspiration for the Jetsons. And I know that if I'd seen it, I'd remember it.

 

[irishamericanlad]

it reminds me of the twilight zone episode when the mob robs a gold thing in the 30s and go to a cave where they hybernate for 1000 years, and when there done they all walk the desert with their gold, and run out of water, in the end these guys pull up in a car like that and the guy tries to trade water for gold, they were like gold? thats useless lol

 

[CatfoodRob]

Pure Jetsons..................

 

[racprops]

The car used in that one was the Robby Car from Forbidden Planet with cover seats with high backs.

Rich

it reminds me of the twilight zone episode when the mob robs a gold thing in the 30s and go to a cave where they hybernate for 1000 years, and when there done they all walk the desert with their gold, and run out of water, in the end these guys pull up in a car like that and the guy tries to trade water for gold, they were like gold? thats useless lol

 

[Apollo]

Wow!

I don't know about it being used but if it has'nt then that's a real crime!!

 

[snoose27]

Looks like it would be from Logans' Run,.. The TV Seires..

 

[Flix4Me]

In my decades of geekitude, I have never seen that car in any form before.



KC

 

[HAL9000]

Yeah, that is from the upcoming "American Graffiti: Special Edition"
George always wanted the White T-Bird to fly - but of course he
didn't have the technology back then - so he s finally putting
that big ol mistake right!

Phew.

 

[moffeaton]

Some low-grade (but awesome) cheeze TV from the 80s, like Otherworld?

 

[dbuck]

The thing only has one wheel under the center. It would be awful hard to use it in a production.
It was meant to show how an atomic powered car could be packaged, and was presumed that a force field would keep it stabilized, or something like that. But it would not suurprise me at all to find that someone at Hanna-Barbera used it as a base to design the Jetsons vehicles.

 

[Laffo]

It's funny you posted this as I have info on it:

http://cadillacforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6495.html
http://www.futurecars.com/blog/gene...ogen-the-modern-take-on-1950s-atomic-optimism
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656
http://cars.ign.com/articles/799/799217p2.html

No, it wasn't in any film or TV because it's just a Mock Up. There's no tranny or Engine of any kind in it, so it's stationary

It did inspire this Big Daddy Roth vehicle, which did run, and actually crashed into a crowd at a Car Show in '64.
http://www.mrgasser.com/rotar.htm

Start at page 38:
http://books.google.com/books?id=R_...=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#PPA38,M1

Laffo.

 

[GKvfx]

"Holy Pimped-out Golf Carts, Batman!"

Gene

 

[racprops]

And of couse SuperCar...

Rich

 

[Carson Dyle]

I love the disclaimer re: "No nuclear reactor was ever installed in this car."

:lol

I can hear the SigAlert now: "...north-bound pasengers on the 405 can expect delays while CalTrans works to clear a small radiation spill..."

Thanks for posting.

The Peterson Museum is about a five minute walk from my office, but being the lazy ******* that I am I've never been. Guess I should shoot over at lunch and see what else I've been missing.