Most Swoopy car to you ?

[Greg Myers]

I still can't see the image ?

Edited August 20, 2013 by Greg Myers

[charlie8575]

http://marutualtilio.com/simone_145.html

Here is a link to a Duesenberg Coupe Simone. It is pretty swoopy.

Straight out of a 1930s-early '40s cartoon. What a magnificent example of swoopy!

Perhaps someday the real car will be found.

Charlie Larkin

[Richard Bartrop]

Straight out of a 1930s-early '40s cartoon. What a magnificent example of swoopy!

Perhaps someday the real car will be found.

Charlie Larkin

Alas, there never was a real Simone. It was an original creation for the Franklin Mint. Still a neat story, and a cool design.

[sjordan2]

This 1938 Phantom Corsair prototype could be a blood brother to Simone.

"The Phantom Corsair is a prototype automobile built in 1938. It is a six-passenger coupé that was designed by Rust Heinz of the H. J. Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California.[1] Although sometimes dismissed as a failure because it never entered production, the Corsair is regarded as ahead of its time due to its futuristic features and styling cues such as faired-in fenders and a low profile."

[Richard Bartrop]

Simone also owes more than a little to this Labourdette bodies Rolls Royce, not to mention a generous helping of both Figoni and Falaschi

Edited August 20, 2013 by Richard Bartrop

[Bernard Kron]

Alas, there never was a real Simone. It was an original creation for the Franklin Mint. Still a neat story, and a cool design.

Very interesting to do a web search on it. There are inconsistencies in dates, spelling and attributions in the Franklin Mint article that give it away, but you have to be watching for them. Any articles to be found on the web are uncredited direct quotes from the Franklin Mint article itself! A classic InterWeb Meme. I almost fell for it (if you were there I briefly had posted a summary of the Franklin Mint article, then suspected a rat and blanked it out). There is no movie The Clearing Cloud and Guy De La Roche is a 1950's fashion designer (or a 13th century French count...). There is a cosmetic firm called La Roche-Posay based in the epinomous town in France which makes skin preparations based on the mineral waters found there... etc., etc. Great fun!

Edited August 20, 2013 by Bernard Kron

[sjordan2]

Speaking of Mercedes 500K - 540K that blunc mentioned...

Swoopy

Swoopier

Swoopiest

If you have the Monogram kit of the third car, study the picture carefully and you'll see 2 of 3 major mistakes (the third is that the kit's rear window is too small).

Edited August 20, 2013 by sjordan2

[Ace-Garageguy]

One of my all time swoopy favorites was the John Wyer "Mirage" rework on the Ford GT40. All the purposefulness of the 40, but slicker...

[Shardik]

Swoopy as defined by Norman Timbs:

1948 Timbs Special. Often misidentified as a Buick Streamliner, the only thing Buick about this car is the straight eight engine and transmision. The suspension is '47 Ford (modified) and everything else was designed and fabricated by Norman E. Timbs and associates.

[Greg Myers]

One of my all time swoopy favorites was the John Wyer "Mirage" rework on the Ford GT40. All the purposefulness of the 40, but slicker...

Yes indeed ! Kinda looks like the Ford P68

Edited August 20, 2013 by Greg Myers

[Greg Myers]

Swoopy as defined by Norman Timbs:

1948 Timbs Special. Often misidentified as a Buick Streamliner, the only thing Buick about this car is the straight eight engine and transmision. The suspension is '47 Ford (modified) and everything else was designed and fabricated by Norman E. Timbs and associates.

OK, put this picture right next to "Swoopy" in the dictionary.

[Harry P.]

You guys need to start looking through the thread before posting. The same cars are starting to be posted over and over...

[sjordan2]

Aren't they mostly duplicates because they're being quoted? I saw one semi that was redundant, and I missed the Phantom Corsair that I posted plus the Timbs special, but I don't know about the others.

Edited August 21, 2013 by sjordan2

[Joe Handley]

Forgot about this one until reading about it cleaning up at NHTSA crash tests

[Harry P.]

I've always liked that car.

[Joe Handley]

I've always liked that car.

The more I see the, the more I like them.....and I've seen a few of them out in St. Charles and Geneva! Talked to a customer a few weeks back that has one with the big battery in it and he told me that they took it on a road trip to Detroit and made it all the way from here to Ann Arbor, MI on one charge! If I had the money, I would love to have one as a daily driver!

[slantasaurus]

Forgot about this one until reading about it cleaning up at NHTSA crash tests

If you want to talk Electric car Swoopy, I prefer the Fisker Karma.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XtP4gJdAOrg/T-vGSp1mOyI/AAAAAAAAAr8/mPdhC55P4jM/s1600/Fisker-Karma.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/2009-fisker-karma_100170420_l_opt.jpg

[lordairgtar]

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz1zzzsQ0RZD9WT3riyaiHatS3q20OQ-Cl5BCAekyXt8_fFaiG

Every day cars are sometimes swoopy. My grandfather had one of these when new and I just loved it. It prompted me later to buy one of these.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-VZwXDPib0nDB2-zvsqF6CHypYgduCXzCGFuL8etCNsPQ9w_5ww

[charlie8575]

I never thought of the 1968-69 Specials/Skylarks as "swoopy", more "curvaceous", but they are a nice-looking car, and one I'd like to see in plastic.

Charlie Larkin

[Bernard Kron]

If you want to talk Electric car Swoopy, I prefer the Fisker Karma.

The Fisker Karma is extraordinarily impressive - and agressively swoopy - when seen "in the metal". Too bad the company is struggling and in near bankruptcy. They spent some $1.3 billion including $193 million of US taxpayer's funds and just now received an offer from a German investment firm to be bought out for $25 million. They are in the process of laying off 75% of their staff. But, as I say, a drop dead gorgeous car when seen on the road!

[Harry P.]

That front grille needs to be reworked, but the rest of the car is pretty nice.

[Bernard Kron]

I've never liked the grile either, but the interesting thing is that the overall presence of the car on the road is so strong that the grille actually makes sense "in the flesh". Not obvious in photos is how low the overall height of the car is, unusually so for a modern sedan. More in line with radical 70's cars like the Aston Martin Lagonda (up there among the Anti-Swoopy cars of the origami school). So the corny, toothy "grin" is in keeping with the agressiveness of the thing. But I would have preferred something more subdued to go with the car's graceful lines.

[SoCalCarCulture]

Here's a different look for the Karma - the finish shows off the curves - yes, it's a wrap...

100412 OC Auto Show 076 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 075 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 074 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 078 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 079 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 081 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 084 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

100412 OC Auto Show 085 by SoCalCarCulture, on Flickr

[comp1839]

here's another car i think looks pretty swoopy.

Edited August 23, 2013 by comp1839

[Greg Myers]