Thunderbirds are GO!

@robertwoodroffe123

17 күн бұрын

My first thought, even before they say jetsons , they said jetsons because thunderbirds is British ??

@bigm383

15 күн бұрын

Brains should have taken out a patent.

@robertwoodroffe123

15 күн бұрын

@@bigm383 can’t hold out much longer mr Tracy Huge sweet bubbles on my face !

@nickp1548

15 күн бұрын

More like Space 1999.

@joels7605

15 күн бұрын

That's exactly what it is and I love it.

From when the future still looked like the future!

@drewcagno

9 күн бұрын

All we got was that ugly cyber truck!😂😂😂

@AndrewKendall71

8 күн бұрын

And was optimistic and innovative and not dystopian and flawed

@marcbrasse747

8 күн бұрын

@@AndrewKendall71 Exactly, although even the once decadently optimistic Sid Mead style has gotten a distopian flavor via the Blade Runner movies. In the end it is not the shape but the intent with which it’s perceived. Not that there is much good to say about the Cybertrucks shape, mind you! 😁

I remember as a 10 year old actually sitting behind the wheel of that "Jetson's" cab. It was like a spaceship !! The whole '64 World's Fair was like that. Miss stuff like that.

It looks like a vehicle straight out of the motion picture "2001 A Space Odyssey".

and we get the cybertruck instead... :( oh how far we've fallen.

Looks cool, like something from a future we never had. Right out of a novel by Clarke

@ArthurX-eg8bc

15 күн бұрын

There are individuals who intentionally stop short in front of commercial vehicles to make an insurance claim. Avoiding this cab-forward design saved the lives of many operators. There would be a question of the vehicle's driving characteristics when unloaded, as well

Could you imagine entering and exiting this thing in the rain?

@congerthomas1812

14 күн бұрын

I'm a engineer

@532bluepeter1

14 күн бұрын

@@congerthomas1812And? Pop the cab, rain pours in, interior gets wet, electricals short.

@user-qi8rk5jg1x

11 күн бұрын

@@congerthomas1812 *an engineer, if you really are one.

@myleslong5584

10 күн бұрын

@@user-qi8rk5jg1x I believe it’s intentional…it’s sarcasm.

@TheHorsebox2

10 күн бұрын

​@@congerthomas1812I've been near an engine...

and still more sensible than cybertruck

Subbed! GM Turbo Titan! Thanks for this retro blast from the past.

@retrocarchannel

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the great comment.

That is a very cool concept, shame it didn't go into production

Interestingly, this looks more legit 'futuristic' than the Tesla Semi currently in development. Thanks for sharing this! 29th Like.

I am 68 and don't remember this! Wow!

The sun glare on all that glass would have sucked not to mention the summer heat if the AC quit working if it had made it into production . Then there is the whole stepping over the side of the cab to enter the cab canopy which would have dripped anything on the bottom of your shoes on the side of the step over for the cab entrance .

With the crash protection of a Kleenex box.

@fartingduck5316

15 күн бұрын

less crash protection inevitably leads to fewer stupid drivers

@jurgens9867

11 күн бұрын

@@fartingduck5316 LOL. That has never worked in history.

@fartingduck5316

9 күн бұрын

@@jurgens9867 it's called "The Darwin Effect" sparky

@fartingduck5316

7 күн бұрын

@@THESocialJusticeWarrior concrete is an excellent teacher.

@nickl5658

5 күн бұрын

why do you need a crumple zone when you have an ejection seat.

I would so buy that now.

The day it graced the fair was the most important day of their lives. But for G.M. Bison, it was a Tuesday.

@nickl5658

5 күн бұрын

For General M. Bison, it was a Tuesday.

Looks super cool, but definitely no crumple zones in that thing. In a head-on collision the driver would truly "become one with the vehicle".

@wb4rfd

14 күн бұрын

Maybe it had an ejection seat?

@ulti-mantis

13 күн бұрын

Yeah It looks like the relative position of the cockpit and turbines was inspired by a helicopter, but realistically for a land vehicle switching their placement would be more safe (and would end up looking much more like a conventional semi)

Looks right out UFO, the 1970s sci fi show by Gerry Anderson

@retrocarchannel

17 күн бұрын

After reading your comment, it got me thinking, and really, why hasn't he been in sci-fi movies, since he fits the bill one hundred percent.

@jenngill7772

4 күн бұрын

I could totally see it with Straker Studios on the trailer, moving a set around the campus in the background of a studio scene. 👍

This futuristic vehicle looks very modern even today! Perhaps in 20 years or so this futuristic truck will be put into production!

Awesome looks! Good payload. But I wonder about the turbine noise. Another great find!

@brianb-p6586

15 күн бұрын

Noise can be a problem with gas turbine engines, but it's a small problem compared to cost, fuel consumption, response lag, and emissions.

I love the Syd Mead '60s car designs. The biggest problem with them is that the people never looked as cool as the cars, no matter what they were wearing.

Still better looking than a Tesla cyber truck.

That looks like something over 20 years in the future from then.

@CrusaderSports250

13 күн бұрын

Looks like something twenty years in the future now!!!. Like a super model, impractical, expensive, but wow😊.

Did any of the trucks survive?

@user-ov4mk9ox8y

16 күн бұрын

My first thought: Where is it? I think only the one was built for show.

I tried to remember seeing this concept before and concluded that it was my first time seeing it, but it looked fantastic.

@visualverbs

18 күн бұрын

I think, back in those days, Chrysler was more associated with turbine technology. My father sold CDP back then, and he brought us kids models of Chrysler / Plymouth turbine-engine cars. Very cool stuff. I had not ever seen this Bison Concept before now, either.

I would so drive that

This concept has to be the most unusual vehicle I've ever encountered. I want one. Horrible approach angle, but would make an interesting rock climber, w/ the four-wheel steer.

Wow! What a remembers. I had a 1/24model of this tractor. But I had forgot it. Thank you

@M60gunner1971

11 күн бұрын

Sure you did Blair, sure you did. 😉

The closest we've ever got to a real life version of Rodimus Prime, and it came 2 decades before that movie!

General Motors experimenting with turbine engines 10 years before this? And all of a sudden we got the Abrams.

Reminds me of 'The Highwayman' truck (that had a helicopter cockpit as the cab) :)

i really like this channel, keep up the great work!

@retrocarchannel

15 күн бұрын

Thank you very much.

... I want to see 1960s truck drivers react to this concept

The turbine could burn just about any fuel. Few moving parts, And would last a lifetime. Not a big profit maker. I fully understand why the vehicle was never produced. Greed rules.

It is disappointing that a video about the Bison does not contain any video of the Bison in motion.

@Sashazur

13 күн бұрын

I wonder if it ever got built to the point where it could move at all.

@brianb-p6586

13 күн бұрын

@Sashazur I'm pretty sure that I have seen video of it driving.

This actually looks pretty cool, someone needs to come up with an updated design for this.

Wouldn't want to get on wreck with that thing.

Advanced features? No cup holders? Probably why it failed.

Makes the Cybertruck look even stupider.

Just to imagine all the Lawsuits that could've happened. Thesedays manufacturers have to set safety standards really high. It wouldn't of passed the crash tests.

Seeing it made me think of Sid Mead's designs. It also made me think of Ron Cobb's designs as well.

The past would be disappointed with our present.

Imagine that front driver’s side tire blows out!! Pink mist.

1964 with all the vehicles out there that was a hot wheels car invention amazing design classic car shows had a lot of ideas off this was amazing for a truck . Futuristic as hell but the diesel got better in years to come .

I was at the 64-65 New York world's fair GM pavilion many times. I never saw this "truck".???

Better than Cybertruck!

Lets pull out all the stops on this! Hmmm, lets put a few back in.

Not the Jetsons. It looked like something from *"Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons!*

That’s is one cool looking truck as for gas turbines I’ll always maintain it was ashamed when you remember that GM, Chrysler and Ford all have turbine programs back then that they abandoned gas turbines it would have made a lot more sense than the EV and hybrid potential moving fireballs that are being forced on us today.

@retrocarchannel

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the great comment.

@brianb-p6586

15 күн бұрын

Turbine engines are tried every few years. For the past couple of decades, they have been tried in series turbine-electric hybrid systems which address some of the problems... and they're still not viable in any road vehicle. GM, Chrysler, and Ford all made the right call decades ago. In case you missed them, check out the buses with Capstone microturbines, the Wrightspeed heavy truck system from several years ago (not their current website, from which all trace of turbines has been deleted), and the relatively current Cosworth CatGen.

@jurgens9867

11 күн бұрын

LOL, Turbines use lots of fuel. High explosive fuel. On my every day way to work i pass several burnmarks on the german roads. None of them is from a EV.

@brianb-p6586

11 күн бұрын

@jurgens9867 turbine engines use lots of fuel (a major reason that they are not used in trucks) but it's far from "high explosive"; apparently you don't know what that term means. Turbine fuel is kerosene-based, like diesel fuel, and is less volatile than gasoline... and even gasoline is not a high explosive.

@jurgens9867

11 күн бұрын

@@brianb-p6586 Ok it´s flamable. Thats the better word for it.

"Never make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra

Still a better looking vehicle than the cybertruck.

Change the power to an ICE and presto! instant custom car for someone to build!

The daddy or granddad of the Sherp.

My cousin worked on this project until one of the turbine engines broke off off the dyno stand and screwed up his leg for life.

When the passenger compartment could be the crumple zone...

Modern trucks are garbage by comparison...ok modern trucks are just garbage without the comparison.

@lawnmowerdude

10 күн бұрын

Trucks peaked in 1912.

@ronibaloni4072

6 күн бұрын

Based on what? Seems to me, modern trucks are the most popular vehicle in North America.

Captain Scarlet!

Looks super cool and completely unpractical. I don't think the average truck driver would trade being able to roll down a window for looking like a Jetson.

And now the newer designs are used on airports to pull airplanes. :)

Wonder what a water buffalo would have looked like😂

Why can't we have interior styling like that? It looks modern. Ok the steering looks like it would be a disaster, and you could have a HUD.. other than that it looks fantastic. It looks like an awesome idea for a truck.

Its designed so straightforward it appears backwards.

That white one would not of looked out of place if it had featured in V the mini series from the 1980's. 😄

Let's hope it never had to brake or accelerate

Cool rig but not sure it would work out well on a sunny day. After seeing this I see where they got the styling for the late 80's tv show Highwayman. Jetto's rig is rather close design, but the main rig that Sam drove is different because it was a helicopter attached to the lower chassis although the chassis is still similar in keeping a low slung chassis.

@transtubular

14 күн бұрын

OMG! The Highwayman with Sam Jones and Jacko!

@jhonsiders6077

14 күн бұрын

They built a cab under tractor a company called Strick had them saw them out west. BTW Jacko.s rig was on EBay not long ago asking 90K for it

The cab under design is actually alive and well on heavy lift cranes, airport tractors, and futuristic APCs, as seen in Aliens, yes I know what it was based on😊.

This a different video : the GM Bison semi truck concept . Very interesting , but the style never got off the ground because businesses weren’t interested in showing off at the time . But I bet they wish they did now ! We are still driving bricks .

Driver … themselves? Himself!

They should have used this instead of the ‘moon buggy’ when they faking the moon landing.

So the cab had 0 articulation? The trailer seems to mount directly to the engine pod with no room for motion. So I'm guessing the 4 wheel steering was to make up for that.

Didn’t GMC use the Bison name on tractor/trucks in the ‘70’s?

Did you even write this script, or did you tell a computer to write it for you, just like you did for the narration? I think I know the answer already.

i still think they should use turbines for long haul tractors helicopter turbines

Looks as if a head-on collision at any speed would utterly destroy it and kill the driver/passenger instantly.

0:40 i think the turbines are being blocked...

Exactly - it reads 100% Gerry Anderson rather than Hanna Barbera.

AI voice Skip this one

Reminds me of the car Homer helped design on the Simpsons 😂

If only…

This thing wouldn't take off because no driver in their right mind would want to be sitting under 40,000 lbs while going 55 MPH.

@jhonsiders6077

14 күн бұрын

Remember the Strick cab under ? They really built and used them out west I saw them myself. A few are sitting around and I would like to find and restore one to working order .

@Primo_extracts

13 күн бұрын

Plenty of drivers on the road without a "right mind" 😂

@jcam1776

13 күн бұрын

To be fair if you driving trucks you already lost your mind. 😂

NO never really ? my gawd

Seat belts optional.

Ice road truckers would soon find the ice road melted.

Still waiting on the future.

Where is the prototype now .

Doesn’t Jay own one?

Aren't trains turbine electric?

@skyak4493

13 күн бұрын

Yes

All the air conditioning in the known world would not have been enough to make that tomato capsule habitable.

And then the Federal Government decided to start engineering cars and innovation has been thwarted ever since.

Ooh- Elon’s new design!

The government is the reason we can't have cool things...

This thing DRANK fuel however

Nothing about the appearance of that prototype makes sense.

Tesla Moon Truck

LOL i prefer this one to the Tesla truck

Is this a hot wheels toy?

Neat concept but it was clearly never going to become a real product.

Turbine engines are incredibly inefficient. That's why Turbines never were used in Cars and Trucks.

Oh good, more low-effort bullshit with an AI voiceover. NEXT!

@puppable

13 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for calling this junk out

Your femurs. are the crumple zones