Awesome video. Born and raised in Flint, Michigan creates a huge interest in anything that resembles a Corvette.

“GEE OUR ‘OL Lasalle ran great!” Bless You Edith Bunker!!!!

Thank you Mr. Bortz for saving these cars.

120 mph with rear wheel steering, that was a VERY brave driver.

@marydesmond9595

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kinda like a 120 mph forklift!

@onemoremisfit

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The average driver who isn't used to the tail swing would wreck it for sure.

@charliebay9441

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Architects shouldn't design cars that go 120 mph. Not with one-wheel rear steering. Esp since the thing can pretty much steer all the way to perpendicular.

Gee our old LaSalle ran great ... those were the days.

@-oiiio-3993

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Boy, the way Glen Miller played... .

The Dymaxion is a lot like the Scarab, even the power source.

I remember reading about B Fuller. He almost committed suicide as a fairly young man. His greatest accomplishments happened much later in his life. That's a good lesson for anyone considering suicide.

I had a dog that I regularly took to the beach here in Highland Park Illinois. Small talk with locals would be the norm and at the time I was fixing up a 2004 Mustang GT my son had. I started chatting with a guy about cars and was discussing my project. The gentleman later introduced himself as Joe Bortz. I'll admit, I didn't recognize the name but later realized the scope of his passion after checking out his website. Very nice fellow for sure!

In the 20th century all the cars industries made prototypes to see the designs come true , they didn't have computers yet , they were called dream cars , some were crazy and some were beautiful. And it was the space and rockets era and that was the reason for the fins in many models.

@rodferguson3515

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Ernesto Claudia... The 1950's & 1960's was the time of great optimism; the United States have came out of World War II victoriously as the" leader of the so-called free world" the economy was exploding with massive job growth , and wonderful changes shape the middle class as it Rose significantly. Suburbia sprung out as far as the white middle class was concerned there was a tremendous amount of optimism about the future the jet age arrive with airliners converting from propeller driven planes to jet liners the space race was just beginning against the Soviet Union symbolize that optimism automobile design also design spacecraft and science fiction looks help to bring about that optimism for new designs bold new looks for cars. And buying public absolutely loved it they were thinking about optimism they were thinking about the future a future with endless possibilities and unlimited visions of greatness. That's why cars of this era are so special they're not only just transportation devices they are works of art , time capsules simulating an era of optimism and greatness.

@ernestoclaudodip9671

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@@rodferguson3515 Yes it's true.Well said. Thank you for the response.

In 1955 the Citroen DS was the car that "radically changed the world", not this exercise in vanity.

@magardunoe

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Citroen DS 55 very much influence on design!

@billplaney2585

Жыл бұрын

You are correct. The Citroen DS was 30 years ahead of everything else.

Research the Buick Wildcat. A 2 seat concept that Buick entered in the competition to win corporate approval to build a sports car. Chevrolet won the competition with the Corvette.

Those LaSalles looked a lot like Cadillacs, the roadster was crossed with a Corvette. They both look huge until someone stands next to them, probably because they look like Caddys. I sure don't recognize the engine as anything I have seen before.

@-oiiio-3993

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LaSalle was a 'junior Cadillac' brand launched in 1927 with Harley Earl as design chief. The brand helped GM survive the depression, built WW2 war materiel, then was dropped leaving Cadillac untarnished. Packard released the 120 series in 1935 as a lower priced 'junior Packard' which, wearing the 'Packard' badge, helped them survive the depression. After their own wartime production, however, those who did well in the booming postwar economy saw the Packard name as diminished with so many prewar La Salle level Packard 120s running about. Add to that Harley Earl's aircraft inspired postwar styling for Cadillac and _"Ask the Man Who Owns One"_ gave way to _"The Standard of the World."_

The Chicago Dymaxion crash was caused by a curious local politician, who was technically at fault. His local clout allowed him to escape blame, and various negative rumours about the Dymaxion developed.

Beautiful automobiles!

To me, this Dymaxion design opened the door for the Ecomobile

Great video. I almost passed on it because your titles always fail to say what they contain. The Dymaxion footage was brilliant.

This show car went into production the next year as the second-series Chevrolet Corvette in the C1 generation. It was built through 1962. Quad headlights and rounded-corner rectangular "teeth" grille appeared for 1958, a reworked version of the La Salle tail from the XP-715 prototype in 1961 and a toothless, horizontal-bar grille with discreet vertical partitions that suggested "teeth" in 1962. After that the C2 Corvette "Sting Ray" generation took over.

@BIGBADWOOD

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YES THE HISTORY OF THE PLASTIC PIG! 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖💩💩💩💩

@angelperez7891

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The third series of the C1 generation started with the 1958 model year and the final fourth series ran during 1961-62.

@-oiiio-3993

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Sister to the 1954 Motorama 'dream car' Corvair and Nomad as well as the Oldsmobile 88, Pontiac Bonneville Special, Buick Wildcat 2 of the same show.

@angelperez7891

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@@-oiiio-3993 Oldsmobile built a fleet of roadsters for its parallel counterpart to the Chevroket Corvette only in 1954 called F88. The next year Ppntiac built the Bonneville Special.

If I had that 1955 Lasalle Roadster all restored I would drive it. It is to bad the Dimaxion wasn't front wheel driven and steering was don in front. it would have made it a safer car.

Automotive entertainment… love it!

The Lasalle Roadster looks better than the '55 Corvette. The Dymaxion is cool even though it's not able to fly. But it would be cooler if it could take to the water.

Great video, but what the heck does spending over half of the video on the Dymaxion have to do with the Lasalle ?????

The four-door looks like a Studebaker.

Joe Bortz & co recently restored this LaSalle (roadster) and last I heard were in the process of restoring the 4 dr Hard Top .......Not sure about the 4 dr bu the roadster was not runner....Bortz's folks made it a runner by adding an electric motor (I think).......

@whiteelectricman

Жыл бұрын

oldthudman you are right, the electric motor conversion was done at Pioneer Conversions in Lemont, Il. by John Emde, Look at Rides with Chuck videos for how it was done.

There is a Dymaxian car at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. I assume your saying it is a replica?

If some company made those LaSalle Roadsters in a fiberglass kit... that used , oh...say a Honda K-20. Uh, I think they'd sell.

Cool

Was never a fan of the La Salle or the Bisqayne show cars, but very glad the La Salle sedan wont get restored! Very much the ugly ducklings of the Motorama and surprised Harley Earl signed off on them. Would be hard for me to get inspired to restore them, but I bet they're better in person.

@7:31 Buckminster Fuller invents the hubcap to the 1993 Dodge 3/4 ton van.

it was as aerodynamic as a submarine on land

Enjoyed!!!

The LaSalle roadster was waaay ahead of its time. Detroit spent decades after them pushing uselessly huge heavy chunks of sheet metal with giant power plants trying to make them go faster with bigger engines. Imagine an Olds 442 engine and transmission in something (almost) as small as something like that!

@raymondclark1785

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I thought this video was going show why they could have changed the market but GM didn't :( Those are not wheel covers, they are finned drums. I think this also had a rear Tran and irs

Time is money. The story is hidden in the noise. On the Internet, you can scroll forward and view only what is important. But if people do that, why is there a need to add a non-essential that is not viewed.

Very interesting but the audio and video are not synched

I was going to watch the LaSalle but you guys put this Dymaxion thing in so I moved on instead of wasting my time.

back ground music so loud can't hear narrator

Regardless of its "operation". Usually, from a marketing standpoint anyway, it usually isn't good to have certain sounding words within the name of the car: Dymaxium - Dy or Die, and Max. Die to the Max - ium automobile. Doubt if it would have sold well with a name like that. lol.

Um, who uploaded this and goofed up the title? The word is "changed" with a "d."

changed the worlds? had a solid rear axle not enough room for anyone over 5’7” really crappy fiberglas build quality for years and not even that fast as it had no tire on the ground. it was out sold by the Thunderbird 4-5 to one and lost a fortune for GM

Would be nice when Americans stopped calling the usa the world. When the usa was producing these anachronisms, europeans were building real cars like the Citroën DS.

@Douguod1

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If you are a true gear head even a european rare car would be lost to the world because we are intresred in all of them. But then theres ..you.

@onemoremisfit

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Don't worry, the US is busy destroying itself for the satisfaction of the rest of the world.

Won't restore the one that will actually drive, but ruined the other with an EV conversion like that abomination Hotrod Magazine visited upon Project X

This video is misleading. I thought it was about a Buick mid-century.

@jonathanmorrisey5771

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How so?

@davidminton6994

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There are two videos here that both begin the same way, I briefly left for a break and came back to pick up where i left off, only to find that what I thought to be viewing about a Buick was some other prototype vehicle. It wasn't this Buick. You may run across this other video I'm referring to.

Just the thought of a rest of mod on something like this to complete his vision with our current technology adding drones, hybrid technology, or better turbines. I completely agree with his vision, we’re all happier out in the woods, our children thrive when they can play in the woods, but living so far out brings income disparity. I don’t see any reason for this since everything is online these days but there are many caveats to working online and many considerably reputable companies still cannot trust their employees to work from home just because of a few bad apples. Otherwise we really could have An utopian US

I wonder if Elon Musk would like one

Pimped old vette

there was nothing exceptional about that car much less

Dymaxion interviewee has a terrible command of language. Objects can't be disreputable.