Reworking some familiar designs

[Harry P.]

For instance...what if the Impala had gone to horizontal taillights a few years earlier?

What if the mid-sixties GTO had horizontal headlights...

What if the new 300 had a more "heritage" look?

Just a few of the ideas rolling around in my head...

[Ken Kitchen]

Yes, No, Yes.

Love the taillight treatment it really works.

No way on the GTO. You can't improve on perfection.

I definitely like the updated treatment on the 300, but I think a little more modern treatment of the headlights would help it. Get rid of the trim rings and fair it into the body. Otherwise a great improvement on the design.

[Harry P.]

What would a Magnum have looked like...in 1968???

What if a Studebaker and a Mustang had a baby???

Oy, vey...

[mikelo]

Nice to see some of your versions of styling snafus. I do like the Impala.

[camaroman]

Harry I think it's time for your meds.

Seriously, I like most of them, but the GTO

looks as if the goat was pollenated by a super bee!!!

[camaroman]

After my last post I looked closely at the Impala;

Compared to your avatar looks as if they should

have simply kept the horizonals (?) a couple of more years!

[Harry P.]

What if the Beach Boys were English?

What if the New Beetle was a little more like the old one?

What if a Corvette had a "Luxury Decor package" option...

And what would a tuner from the Communist bloc have looked like in 1968?

ok...I'll take my medication now...

[Peter Lombardo]

Harry, you have way too much free time on your hands. That "Studebang" is way over the top, but I do find the Chrysler 300/DeSoto an interesting idea. Headlights look a little odd, but I was thinking about something along these lines...how would a Chrysler 300 look if done as a '49 Mercury style leadsled? I think not too far from the front design of your car. Maybe....Maybe not.

[Jairus]

Harry,

All look good to me, but then I only have a B.S. in graphic design.......

GTO works better than the Chevrolet, with the Charger least liked. 300 is flat out perfect!

[Harry P.]

ok...just so nobody thinks I'm nuts...several of those were just done for laughs. The Studebang, the Cadivette, the Tranbant tuner, etc. were just me goofing off. But I actually do like the 300, and the "horizontal lights" GTO is kind of nice.

[Modelmartin]

Good yuks! Mustebanger? Corvarado? Middle age Beetle?

[novadose71]

Where am I??? better byet where are you????

[Mad Slammer]

Man, and they call me MAD! ! !

:D B)

[lordairgtar]

What if the mid-sixties GTO had horizontal headlights...

Just a few of the ideas rolling around in my head...

Kind of like a Beaumont, Harry.

[plasticgas]

I kinda like the goat!

What about doing it with that same grill and hide-a-ways like the '68 GTO?

Edited September 26, 2007 by plasticgas

[bsoder]

Harry you have a great imagination!..I really like the look of the Impala, and your new "beetle" does look better

[bartek]

Styling Snafus' back! Oh I am happy with that! And please, Harry, just think about what if Alfa Romeo was a very British roadster???

[Harry P.]

Styling Snafus' back! Oh I am happy with that! And please, Harry, just think about what if Alfa Romeo was a very British roadster???

Thanks, bartek!

I'll have to give the "British Alfa" some thought!

[41CHEVY]

The Goat.... maybe, the Charger ..... looks like an El Camino with a cap, the 300....perfect, But the TRIBANT !!! I bought a Revell of Germany one years ago as a joke.......Now where is it????? Paul

[camaroman]

Harry

I hope no one at GM sees that CORVETTALAC.

They are crazy enough to try it

[mr moto]

The Corvettillac sure works for me but those bean counters in Detroit wouldn't have the guts to do it! Adventurous styling died sometime in the 60's and was replaced by committee-driven, focus-group tested styling.

[TOM MURPHY]

For instance...what if the Impala had gone to horizontal taillights a few years earlier?

What if the mid-sixties GTO had horizontal headlights...

What if the new 300 had a more "heritage" look?

Just a few of the ideas rolling around in my head...

WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE U THANKS FOR MAKIN ME SMILE. I USED TO PUT 2 DIFERENT CARS TOGETHER. I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY NUT HERE. DO U EVER DRAW ANYTHING BY HAND?? TOM MURPHY UNFINISHED DREAMS

[Harry P.]

WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE U THANKS FOR MAKIN ME SMILE. I USED TO PUT 2 DIFERENT CARS TOGETHER. I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY NUT HERE. DO U EVER DRAW ANYTHING BY HAND?? TOM MURPHY UNFINISHED DREAMS

I haven't drawn anything by hand in many years.

I used to do it all by hand... airbrush (acrylics) on illustration board. And all the pain that goes with it... running out of a color at 10 PM with the illustration due in the morning and no art supply stores open anymore... or worse yet, paint bleeding under the frisket... or worse yet, the airbrush spitting onto the illustration, or actually spilling paint onto it. Sheesh... the stuff I used to put up with!

Now I do all my illustrations electronically. Still "drawn" by me, but instead of an airbrush I use a mouse now. That's progress, I guess...

[Chuck Most]

I haven't drawn anything by hand in many years.

Neither have I, trouble is, I suck at graphic programs. So if I picked up the pencil and pad again, I'd be terrible, and if I clicked on the mouse in a Photoshop type program, I'd be far worse.

[made007]

i like that cadivvete, and...................im gonna build one myself, so ....... stay tuned