City of tomorrow, Yesteryear :)

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-07-03 06:31am

Confuesed about the title? Don't be clicky da linky

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-03 10:17am

ACK! Bad memories of horrible 50's sci-fi flicks...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-03 10:35am

Some of them look cool,while others looks ridiculous.

EDIT: That got me thinking where are the flying cars,i want my flying car.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-07-03 10:40am

*Sniff*

Those were the times. How wrong they were about the future.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-03 11:53am

Montcalm wrote:Some of them look cool,while others looks ridiculous.

EDIT: That got me thinking where are the flying cars,i want my flying car.

A guy on the gold coast here is making one. It's powered by the mighty RCE!!!!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-03 12:31pm

It's 2003 already. Now where the hell's my flying car, $500 Coke, and house that looks like a drunk guy designed it complete with robot maid?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-03 12:43pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:...Now where the hell's my flying car...

http://www.moller.com/

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-03 05:47pm

It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars? Why? Why? Why?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-07-03 07:29pm

I once saw a flying car, granted it flew into a ditch though.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-03 07:32pm

Gandalf wrote:I once saw a flying car, granted it flew into a ditch though.

Let me guess it was the Avrocar.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-05 04:32am

I love those 1950s visions of how cars would look like in year 2000. My father has a lot of ANCIENT issues of "Popular Mechanics" lying around, and one of them has an article on "cars of the future".

In the 1950s, the executives at Chrysler thought that by 2000, the average luxury car would be 7 metres long, have a top speed of 300 km/h and be powered by a gas turbine!

As for the appearance of the cars, most of them look rather 1950s/1960s-esque for "future cars". For example - one of the illustrations, which I guess is a small sports car, looks like the bastard child of a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda and a Citroën DS-19.

Of course, it didn't turn out that way. Now I have an explanation why Katsuhiro Otomo didn't develop THAT many futuristic car designs for "Akira"... (This still doesn't explain Kaneda's motorcycle)

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-05 01:39pm

Jay Leno has a motorcycle powered by a gas turbine.

I like some of that old modernist art style. Some of it SUCKED, but some was VERY aesthetically pleasing.

for instance, this Keck + Keck home is nice; http://jetsetmodern.com/keck.htm .

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-05 08:24pm

Gandalf wrote:I once saw a flying car, granted it flew into a ditch though.

I saw an apparently ordinary car, but for no understandable reason it simply levitated about 1 meter from the ground, spinned on its own axis and landed upside down. Sure, the driver was drunk, but I never thought that alcohol could physically lift a car from the ground

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-05 08:27pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:I love those 1950s visions of how cars would look like in year 2000. My father has a lot of ANCIENT issues of "Popular Mechanics" lying around, and one of them has an article on "cars of the future".

In the 1950s, the executives at Chrysler thought that by 2000, the average luxury car would be 7 metres long, have a and be powered by a gas turbine!

As for the appearance of the cars, most of them look rather 1950s/1960s-esque for "future cars". For example - one of the illustrations, which I guess is a small sports car, looks like the bastard child of a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda and a Citroën DS-19.

Of course, it didn't turn out that way. Now I have an explanation why Katsuhiro Otomo didn't develop THAT many futuristic car designs for "Akira"... (This still doesn't explain Kaneda's motorcycle)

Wren't there predictions of cars that were powered by nuclear reactors around that time?

And as for the 7-meter cars, the way they're going with SUVs, I wouldnt' be suprised it they ended up making one.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-05 10:15pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:...(This still doesn't explain Kaneda's motorcycle)

ahh, the one that was powered by the Rotary Engine

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-07-05 10:18pm

Scroll down, and you find links to a bunch of hardcore porn stuff.

Thanks Faram. This link will come in handy.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-07-06 11:25am

http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

I like it...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-06 11:29am

NecronLord wrote:http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

I like it...

But would an aircraft so huge fly?

Still its a funky design.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-07-06 01:20pm

Montcalm wrote:
NecronLord wrote:http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

I like it...
But would an aircraft so huge fly?

Still its a funky design.

According to the link it would have 20 engines, with 6 spare, and was overseen by a "Doctor O.A. Koller " who "was responsible for the design of over two hundred different airplanes, including the famous Phalz plane used so extensively by Germany during WWI.......without exception all his planes have flown successfully ." so, probably.

I'm sure I saw one of these in Dr.Who once.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-06 01:33pm

Hethrir wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:...(This still doesn't explain Kaneda's motorcycle)
ahh, the one that was powered by the Rotary Engine

Actually, Suzuki made a motorcycle in 1976 which had a rotary engine. Maybe that was where Otomo got the idea ?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:And as for the 7-meter cars, the way they're going with SUVs, I wouldnt' be suprised it they ended up making one.

Not too far off the mark - a Ford Excursion is roughly 6 metres long. But the cars they predicted in the 1950s were not only long, they were also sleek, low and fast.

Almost the polar opposite of an Excursion!

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-07-06 02:18pm

YT300000 wrote:Scroll down, and you find links to a bunch of hardcore porn stuff.

Thanks Faram. This link will come in handy.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-07-06 03:10pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:In the 1950s, the executives at Chrysler thought that by 2000, the average luxury car would be 7 metres long, have a top speed of 300 km/h and be powered by a gas turbine!

1974 Ford Thunderbird

ENGINE:

Code A 460 CID 4V V-8 Engine (220 Net Horsepower)
Carter 4-Barrel Carburetor
Single Exhaust System
4.36" x 3.85" Bore x Stroke
8.0:1 Compression Ratio

TRANSMISSION:

Code U SelectShift Automatic (C6, 3-Speed)
Code Z SelectShift Automatic (C6, 3-Speed Special)

REAR AXLE:

Code K 2.75:1 (Limited Slip)
Code O 3.00:1 (Limited Slip)
Code R 3.25:1 (Limited Slip)
Code 2 2.75:1
Code 6 3.00:1
Code 9 3.25:1

WHEELBASE: 120.4 Inches

Length: 224.8 Inches
Height: 53 Inches
Width: 79.7 Inches
Weight: 5,033 Pounds

Not quite 7 meters, but they got close. I owned one of those beasts for a while. She got 8 miles to the gallon. <sniff> I miss her.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-08 05:02am

RedImperator wrote:
Length: 224.8 Inches
Height: 53 Inches
Width: 79.7 Inches
Weight: 5,033 Pounds
Not quite 7 meters, but they got close. I owned one of those beasts for a while. She got 8 miles to the gallon. <sniff> I miss her.

I calculated that Thunderbird to be 562cm long. Not that far off. But it wasn't powered by a rear-mounted gas turbine.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-08 05:39am

kojikun wrote:Jay Leno has a motorcycle powered by a gas turbine.

I like some of that old modernist art style. Some of it SUCKED, but some was VERY aesthetically pleasing.

for instance, this Keck + Keck home is nice; http://jetsetmodern.com/keck.htm .

I absolutely love that styling!

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Actually, Suzuki made a motorcycle in 1976 which had a rotary engine. Maybe that was where Otomo got the idea ?

Yeah, a few people did around that time, but only Mazda continued mainstream. I've been wanting to get my hands on an original 110S (L10b) Cosmo

And if anyone tells you 9k on the tacho is special, tell them to look at 1967 Cosmo! http://www.rx7-gallery.co.uk/bincosmo/c ... mo1int.jpg

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-08 06:37am

While we're at it, I have to mention that H.P. Lovecraft once wrote a poem which poked fun at futurists. (Or so I've heard. I've never found it anywhere on the internet.)