Futuristic, mysterious, transparent
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Transparent Smartphones we know. But that already existed in 1939 a “Ghost car”, through which you could look through, was new to us. This Pontiac was built at a time, in a future ausm-old, who arrived but never.
– Transparent up under the hood of the Pontiac Deluxe Six of 1939. (Source: Vintage-Everyday.com)
How people present from the past, the future, which for us is already past, can be fascinating. We chuckle often about escalators that lead into the sky, human, pipe, post, or Teleportation deviceslocated in the year 2020 in the distance.
The Ghost car of General Motors
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Almost transparent, this presented itself …
(Source: Vintage Everyday)
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The world exhibition in New York in 1939, housed the so-called “Democracity,” the city of the future. Also, the US car manufacturer General Motors presented the “Highways and Horizons”pavilion, presented a Vision for the transport in the year 1960.
The Magazine Vintage Everyday a blow is now light on the there Ghost car introduced by Pontiac, the in a for its time a fantastic environment between the flexible glass, Cooking pots cooking at the same time and freeze could or holograms that appeared out of flashlights, was presented.
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The Ghost car Pontiac Deluxe Six, is considered to be the first fully transparent automobile in the US history. The bodywork was mainly made up of acrylic, a then new, exciting material, the ends of the jam visitors a view into the Interior of the vehicle allowed. Was involved in the company Rohm and Hass, the inventor of plexiglass.
The production costs of the Show vehicle amounted to US $ 25,000 in 1939, an astronomical sum. After the world exhibition in New York, the car was shown at other events, then General Motors-dealer used it for advertising purposes. How we imagine the future of the automobile today, shows such as the Mercedes Redsun Concept in a stunning way.
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Automotive, Technology and Mobility
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