Gorgeous work man! Agree with you about fragile stuff.

Lovely work on this. I think it is a classic style that certainly has a place in history, if not modern art. I also feel it is a lovely design for a vehicle from the 70's.

As a side note, I believe Chip Foose still designs in this exact style; or he did at least.

If Foose was to see this, he would probably build it!!! Wouldn't that be a Hoot! But if he did, get the royalties. 'Axe

I miss seeing those "land yachts" on the streets. Now all that's left are model kit versions of them.

So sleek! I do miss big old boats like these. I learned to drive in a '74 Monte Carlo.

This are the kind of designs I'd love to see in any kind of fiction

I WANT A SUX-7000, I WANT IT TO GET REALLY CRAPPY MILEAGE!!


I miss my 1973 Lincoln Town car, AKA The 'Yom Kipper Clipper', 505 HP under the hood, zero to sixty in under 5 seconds for a 2.5 ton beast of a machine that got 8-9 MPG on the highway, 4-6 city. You literally could sit three people up front and hold your elbows out directly to the sides and not hit the person seated next to you, and the back seat, even with the front seat way back, still had vast amounts of leg room. Plus replaced the brights with 5 MILLION each candlelight aircraft landing lights for a whopping TEN MILLION Candlelight power for the brights. Turning on the brights you literally heard a 'Pooooaaah" sound and a you could bubble the chrome off a bumper at 10 feet. I would cruise back from Phoenix on I-10 in that car, hit the brights and listen to the truckers on the CB behind me call out the cops 2-3 miles up the road having their reflective emblems sparkle up as I approached.

My fun claim was once taking the car to a drive-in that charged a flat $6.00 per carload, with 3 in the front and 3 in the back, and 3 more in the trunk with folding chairs!

Sadly I lost the car when I was escaping some trouble I got it and was doing 110MPH in a 30MPH road with serious dips and launched the car, and came crashing down, bending the frame. We measured impact scrapes in the pavement at the launch to the impact gouges in the pavement, 85 feet! But considering I paid $500 for it, had it a year and a half. I got like $400 for the wreck between scrap and the engine and transmission.

I remember dragging you and all the Arizona Mafia to Colonel Lee's Mongolian BBQ in the back of my Ginormous 1969 Olds 98 Two Door. I could fit everyone, I would take my local friends to the beach at midnight, and we would listen to KFOG 104.5FM and talk about Stuff. There's a story about how I got rid of it, but that is a tale for another day.

Cue: the opening score to RoboCop... (the 1980's version.)

Remember that Ginormous Mercedes I drove to Madison with Ray Rooney?

I usedta park that thing in front of my mother's rowhouse, and it would stick out a foot either side of the property line...

dude that is a slick car. top notch

we had a big ol ford and my dad called it the tuna boat for its size and the sound it made at idle

Two lanes wide, more power than a space shuttle and 5 mpg. What more could you want.

Man, reminds me of those old sci-fi stories where America's highways we're free-fire zones, and all the cars had gun turrets and stuff . . .

Car Wars!

Yeah, those too.

"Why Johnny Can't Speed". One of my favorites...

Yeah, that was exactly the one I thought of.

nice ride

Reminds me of the 74 Impala we had growing up. A lovely avocado green boat. The hood seemed to go on forever.

Nice job -- great execution. Looks like a designer's go-to-meeting 'pitch' image.

I had a 1965 Plymouth Sport Fury with the old-geometry 318 semi-hemi. Caught air with it a few too many times and had to replace the leaf springs with the heavy-duty ones off a junked cruiser. It was my family's car (my middle brother bought it from his employer for $40 in 1975) and every driver in the family drove it at least a little. I drove a Volvo, a VW bug, a Plymouth Cricket (the reworked Hillman Avenger) and a string of Datsuns. I got a rent-a-wreck big-block Chevy for a few days when a wayward motorcyclist totaled my last Datsun. That was a religious experience.

My first car was a 1969 Olds 98 two door hardtop. Following that was a 1970 Dodge Dart. So it was basically larger cars, until they weren't available.

If Starsky and Hutch drove a Dodge Polara...

Oooh very cool, great artwork.
I think if I had to go through university again I'd have done industrial design instead.
Love the 70's design cues.

That thing is a Monster! Somewhere I saw a U-Tube vid of a V-12 made by splicing 2 V-8 blocks together. Think that with twin turbos ,or double gear driven superchargers. Mileage? Think GPM [gallons per mile} rather than the other way 'round! Reminded of the cover of a Manga I saw on the news stand in Kichijogi, japan while on the way to school [long story]. Showed a patrol car with two officers of the Texas DPS in a car looking like the ford show-car that Barris turned into the Batmobile. with a .50 cal. popping out of the hood. Can you spell "Overkill"? For a country with such stringent gun laws, the Japanese popular media really does love exotic firearms. 'Axe
BTW, time frame--1964 or so.

That's one sick whip

Ah, yes... when a car was a car, not a personal electric urban conveyance.

They still exist in herds in California but not in the numbers they once were. No salt and no snow means the bodies last for ever.