"... "unrestrained and unconventional" ..."
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I don't find the car ugly at all. I remember cars with huge fins - iconic in the 1950's. It is almost a thing of beauty, but a different kind of beauty. A younger person would not see the attraction of that car!
Actually, it's not the fins, nor the glass canopy that I find ugly, but the front end.
Roy
Patronage restricted could be a more encompassing term than simply african americans. It strikes me as more in the range of a country club keeping out the "riff-raff" which is to say folks with a poor address, low income or no references etc.
Interestingly I had someone say much the same thing to me when I was applying to join a philatelic group. I was asking about some of the items on the application form and was told they were there to keep out the trash (in not so many words...) and to just ignore them and that wasn't so long ago.
Elitism will never go away.
I like the car. It is so different. It is kind of weird looking, but what the hey.
I LOVE the car!!!
Here is a website with some great pics of the car, inside and out!
http://www.bobbydarin.net/bdcar-article1960.html
The DiDia 150 is a car that is very representative of custom cars of that era! This was the late 1950s, everything was space age and swoopy, even the new cars all had fins!
The craze was started by the auto manufacturers with their show cars. This is one of the most famous, the Lincoln Futura that hit the auto show circuit in 1955. The manufacturers did these design studies to see what the public's reaction would be to futuristic designs. A lot of design cues from show cars actually made it into production vehicles. The Futura was painted a light blue in it's original form.
The Futura was used in the 1959 movie "It Started with a Kiss", starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford. For the movie, it was painted red. Show cars have a limited lifespan, so Lincoln was done with the car and on to new concepts. But what auto maker doesn't want their name in movies? So the car was loaned out.
Few auto manufacturer concept cars are let out of their ownership. Most are later scrapped, some maintained in the manufacturer's collection or museum. The Futura got out! Around 1965 George Barris, a custom car designer, was hired to create a modern Batmobile for the upcoming TV show! Ford released the car as long as he was going to completely redo it. And it became that iconic car!
There have been many copies of the Batmobile built, and there is at least one copy of the Futura in both colors in existence today.
It's all so 1950s!
Oh, no, its happening, again !
Airbus mimics nature with 'Bird of Prey' concept plane
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
I was sorting a postcard lot last night and found a couple I thought were worth sharing:
#1
The truly ugly car!
I just found it on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiDia_150
The 1960 DiDia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the "Dream Car" forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin. Built in Detroit, Michigan, clothing designer Andrew "Andy" Di Dia designed this "unrestrained and unconventional" automobile. Only one example was ever built.
#2
How times have changed!
Nothing special here:
but here is the punchline:
Roy
re: Couple of interesting postcards
"... "unrestrained and unconventional" ..."
re: Couple of interesting postcards
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I don't find the car ugly at all. I remember cars with huge fins - iconic in the 1950's. It is almost a thing of beauty, but a different kind of beauty. A younger person would not see the attraction of that car!
re: Couple of interesting postcards
Actually, it's not the fins, nor the glass canopy that I find ugly, but the front end.
Roy
re: Couple of interesting postcards
Patronage restricted could be a more encompassing term than simply african americans. It strikes me as more in the range of a country club keeping out the "riff-raff" which is to say folks with a poor address, low income or no references etc.
Interestingly I had someone say much the same thing to me when I was applying to join a philatelic group. I was asking about some of the items on the application form and was told they were there to keep out the trash (in not so many words...) and to just ignore them and that wasn't so long ago.
Elitism will never go away.
re: Couple of interesting postcards
I like the car. It is so different. It is kind of weird looking, but what the hey.
re: Couple of interesting postcards
I LOVE the car!!!
re: Couple of interesting postcards
Here is a website with some great pics of the car, inside and out!
http://www.bobbydarin.net/bdcar-article1960.html
re: Couple of interesting postcards
The DiDia 150 is a car that is very representative of custom cars of that era! This was the late 1950s, everything was space age and swoopy, even the new cars all had fins!
The craze was started by the auto manufacturers with their show cars. This is one of the most famous, the Lincoln Futura that hit the auto show circuit in 1955. The manufacturers did these design studies to see what the public's reaction would be to futuristic designs. A lot of design cues from show cars actually made it into production vehicles. The Futura was painted a light blue in it's original form.
The Futura was used in the 1959 movie "It Started with a Kiss", starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford. For the movie, it was painted red. Show cars have a limited lifespan, so Lincoln was done with the car and on to new concepts. But what auto maker doesn't want their name in movies? So the car was loaned out.
Few auto manufacturer concept cars are let out of their ownership. Most are later scrapped, some maintained in the manufacturer's collection or museum. The Futura got out! Around 1965 George Barris, a custom car designer, was hired to create a modern Batmobile for the upcoming TV show! Ford released the car as long as he was going to completely redo it. And it became that iconic car!
There have been many copies of the Batmobile built, and there is at least one copy of the Futura in both colors in existence today.
It's all so 1950s!
re: Couple of interesting postcards
Oh, no, its happening, again !
Airbus mimics nature with 'Bird of Prey' concept plane
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey