FA+
Shop
771
Views
Views
31
Favorites
Favorites
Category
Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 405
File Size 148.4 kB
Report this content
★
More from Ahundred
Century.
I love my Volvo, but shouldn’t Ahundred be driving a Century? And what was the strangest Century ever made? Why, the 1959 Century. That was a strange year. The last year of real fins for G.M., and on this particular model the tail fins start at the windshield and there are fins on the front too. Soon after purchasing it Ahundred christened it “The Century of Pain.” Little does he know, the car is actually evil, and is actively trying to kill him. (Words of its previous owner: “This car is evil, and it will try to kill you.” Ahundred: “How much?” The reply: “I don’t care just get this machine as far away from me as you can.” Ahundred: “Hot deal!”) Of course, if he survives his first three months the car may take a liking to him, at which point he’s got real problems because then it will start trying to kill other people.
My head’s a little big, but the thing about cartoons is the smaller you draw them the bigger their heads get. And think I did a good job intersecting the end of my muzzle with the bar of the wing vent. Intersecting things is another thing illustrators tend to avoid, brings things together dimensionally, though.
Before you say anything, yes, I know I drew it as a right-hand-drive. It’s called an artistic liberty.
I really want to drive a car with a bubble windshield again. In America every car produced between 1955 and 1960 had one, then they decided they weren’t cool anymore and not a single car has been made with one since, with exception of the Imperial, (a defunct Chrysler Corporation marque,) which was produced with a bubble windshield right up until 1966.
One thing I noticed while drawing this car is how far back the front wheels are placed on modern cars, new cars have a very prominent overhang compared to old cars.
And one last note, twenty per cent of the photographs on F.A. are photographs of cars, and yet I never see any drawings of cars. They aren't really that hard to draw.
My head’s a little big, but the thing about cartoons is the smaller you draw them the bigger their heads get. And think I did a good job intersecting the end of my muzzle with the bar of the wing vent. Intersecting things is another thing illustrators tend to avoid, brings things together dimensionally, though.
Before you say anything, yes, I know I drew it as a right-hand-drive. It’s called an artistic liberty.
I really want to drive a car with a bubble windshield again. In America every car produced between 1955 and 1960 had one, then they decided they weren’t cool anymore and not a single car has been made with one since, with exception of the Imperial, (a defunct Chrysler Corporation marque,) which was produced with a bubble windshield right up until 1966.
One thing I noticed while drawing this car is how far back the front wheels are placed on modern cars, new cars have a very prominent overhang compared to old cars.
And one last note, twenty per cent of the photographs on F.A. are photographs of cars, and yet I never see any drawings of cars. They aren't really that hard to draw.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 405px
File Size 148.4 kB
Heh, it's evil _because_ it's right hand drive! Or so I reckon.
I noticed that with the rear overhang too, though most of the time it's because of the insanely large boots (trunks) on older cars. It sort of makes more sense for the distance between the wheels to be shorter than the car too as it reduces the turning circle in a good way. However, it can also lead to peculiar handling traits, particularly at speed, which I think is why modern cars are all 'wheel at each corner'. Ridiculous notion they have of practicality over style XD
Also, I wonder about the practicality of driving with hooves. I realised only recently that my gazelles in The Boy Next door, one of whom drives a pink Volvo Amazon custom drop head (convertible) and the other a black custom Rover P6 (with leopard print roof and interior!) both have hooves. Surely it's dangerous... as is the blind spot herbivores have right in front of them. I really haven't though this ungulates driving thing out properly XD
Anyway, I'm rambling. Cool picture, excellent example of American styling excess, well executed (ha, pun!).
I noticed that with the rear overhang too, though most of the time it's because of the insanely large boots (trunks) on older cars. It sort of makes more sense for the distance between the wheels to be shorter than the car too as it reduces the turning circle in a good way. However, it can also lead to peculiar handling traits, particularly at speed, which I think is why modern cars are all 'wheel at each corner'. Ridiculous notion they have of practicality over style XD
Also, I wonder about the practicality of driving with hooves. I realised only recently that my gazelles in The Boy Next door, one of whom drives a pink Volvo Amazon custom drop head (convertible) and the other a black custom Rover P6 (with leopard print roof and interior!) both have hooves. Surely it's dangerous... as is the blind spot herbivores have right in front of them. I really haven't though this ungulates driving thing out properly XD
Anyway, I'm rambling. Cool picture, excellent example of American styling excess, well executed (ha, pun!).
No no, I mean the front overhang. I only noticed it recently, but new cars have a very prominent overhang on the front, the front wheels are placed very far back.
I've got the head of a wolf, so I've no blind spot. (Ugh, half carnivore half herbivore. That's an eating disorder for you.) And I don't see why the hooves should get in the way of my driving, in fact the whole point is we're extra nimble on our tiny pointy feet. My reaction time's probably better than most.
I've got the head of a wolf, so I've no blind spot. (Ugh, half carnivore half herbivore. That's an eating disorder for you.) And I don't see why the hooves should get in the way of my driving, in fact the whole point is we're extra nimble on our tiny pointy feet. My reaction time's probably better than most.
Front wheel drive explains it, I don't know why I didn't think of that. But crumple zones came into play in the mid-fifties, just not in full force like these days. We had the crazy idea that both the passengers and the car should survive the accident. 'Of course, back then they built bumpers that could survive a bumping, to. Have you see the 2008 models? They don't have bumpers at all. Not even an ugly lump where a bumper would be like the previous models.
Oh cool, we had a '60 Imperial. Far from restored, though, but you know it at the time it was only 35 years old. My father made it into an art car, he stenciled baroque ornament all over it. We called it "The Rococo-a-Gogo," our neighbors thought we were so weird.
... Buick's 1959 line named series was revamped, the top of the line model was now the ELECTRA 225, then the next one down was the INVICTA, and finally, the LESABRE. The Invicta didn't last long... till 64. In '62 the Wildcat was inserted into the Invicta line, a sportier, performance model, and replaced the INVICTA after '64. Buick used the Century name before and much later, but not in the tail fin juggernaut year of 1959. Pontiac's Canadian offerings had such french names as Laurentian, Parisienne, and Acadian (the later, a Chevy II/Nova with Pontiac styling cues).
I need to draw more cars, espcially older models. I remember seeing the Daffodil Parade on Nantuket and they were all old vintage restored cars. There were quite a number of REALLY nice ones but one made my jaw completely drop. I didn't know what it was but ever since then I've wanted one. I think it was a "phantom" or something. I've searched for it but haven't found it yet.
But anyway, Fantastic pict. It makes me feel like you're visiting Mexico or something.
But anyway, Fantastic pict. It makes me feel like you're visiting Mexico or something.
Not all of GM during the fifties were so modestly-finned, though. Remember the '49 Cadillacs that started the whole thing, the design reportedly influenced by the twin-boomed, twin-tailed P-38s? They grew twice: Once in 1955, then again in 1959.
I'll certainly agree that 1959 was the pinnacle of fins, with Mopar placing themselves squarely at the top of the outrageous-design heap, with Oldsmobile, Buick, and Pontiac playing a close second. Hell... the 1959 Pontiacs and 1960 Oldsmobiles had tailfins top and bottom (Lincolns, too)!
Anyhow... well done! I always love that wrap-around rear glass.
I'll certainly agree that 1959 was the pinnacle of fins, with Mopar placing themselves squarely at the top of the outrageous-design heap, with Oldsmobile, Buick, and Pontiac playing a close second. Hell... the 1959 Pontiacs and 1960 Oldsmobiles had tailfins top and bottom (Lincolns, too)!
Anyhow... well done! I always love that wrap-around rear glass.
That's part of his mystique. Ahundred always has a steamer trunk lashed to the roof of his car. What's in it? Souls? A spare tire? You don't know.
I've got one in real life too, but I.R.L. it's just there because I was moving some books three months ago and was too lazy to take it back down after I was done.
I've got one in real life too, but I.R.L. it's just there because I was moving some books three months ago and was too lazy to take it back down after I was done.
My grandpa told me a story about when he was walking down the street and tripped and ran into the back on a 59 Cadillac and got stabbed in the stomach by one of those missile tail light that they were known for. It broke the skin and tore his shirt but he was saying that those cars from that era were some of the most dangerous cars ever made because of all the sharp points on them. So I guess to answer your question why they don’t make cars like that now days is because they would be a law suit waiting to happen.
Just as a side note I would like a 53 and lower Cadillac convertible to fix up. You know the types with the hump on the rear fender for the tail light. I just think that looks so hot.
Just as a side note I would like a 53 and lower Cadillac convertible to fix up. You know the types with the hump on the rear fender for the tail light. I just think that looks so hot.
It seems to me that the tailfin--whereas being, like most things, something on which you can hurt yourself--is not high on the list of dangerous things that can be found in, on, or around your standard car of any era.
'Sides, I didn't ask. What I did ask, however, is why we don't have panoramic windshields no more. Saabs had them in the eighties, but no American car had them after the sixties.
'Sides, I didn't ask. What I did ask, however, is why we don't have panoramic windshields no more. Saabs had them in the eighties, but no American car had them after the sixties.
LOVE YOUR CAR DUDE^!!! Yeah I kinda agree, that century the 1st time when I saw it on the net many years ago, my 1st thoughts was Its just ugly
But not until I saw the car in real life, then I said..THAT CAR IS GOOOOR gEEEE II OOUUSS Xd
Like the Edsel Pacer, its ugly on pictures but too beautiful in real life, in real life, U be the one that wants to OWN one laterally!! Im telling U its the truth
But not until I saw the car in real life, then I said..THAT CAR IS GOOOOR gEEEE II OOUUSS Xd
Like the Edsel Pacer, its ugly on pictures but too beautiful in real life, in real life, U be the one that wants to OWN one laterally!! Im telling U its the truth
Nearly forgot to mention, I saw a beautiful Buick Century (a rarity normally, even more so in the UK!) in metallic burgundy, white interior with red piping, green-tinted glass and convertible (roof folded away, but I suspect it was a hard-top). It was sat in the middle of town looking rather smug and grandiose, it made my day. Unfortunately, I didn't get to take a photograph since I was on the tram at the time.
I like the pan roof add. I think it’s very sharp. I could see a customizer doing something like that and selling it for a big bundle. I have considered drawing up plans for a carouser that would use parts from 60, 59, 58, and 57, but then I think of the cost and don’t.
Comments