Posted 9 years ago
pw-collector
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This is the 1959 Firebird III Experimental as seen during my visit in 2009.
The description sign read:
The third vehicle on GM's trilogy of gas turbine-powered concept cars was the Firebird III. The cars styling was highlighted by seven short wings / tail fins and a double-bubble canopy. Powered by a third generation gas turbine - more powerful, yet a fraction of the size of its predecessors - this concept car also had an auxiliary 10hp engine to run its many power accessories. Most remarkable, the Firebird III boasted the world's first "drive-by-wire" system. Steering, throttle and brake functions were all controlled by an aircraft-like joystick.
A greater description can be found here:
https://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/Firebird_III
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Dave
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It's the ultimate car with fins. I thought we were all supposed to be driving around in bubble top cars now.
YOUR VERY WELCOME Dave :) on all of them!!
fortapache, now they are trying to sell us cars that would fit inside of one of these bubble cockpits!!!!
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What a great concept. Put solar panels on it and it'd work a dream, somewhere with sun of course.
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I remember seeing the cool experimental "future cars" in promo displays every few years and finding it hard to believe anything that awesome would ever actually be built. Now I see cars like the 2015 Corvette, the Tesla, BMWs, Lamborghinis, etc, etc and see that we can actually buy cars better than the dream cars of old. Life is amazing for us old folks!
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and batman though he had a cool ride ...lol pretty cool Dave.....
Thanks Recordmantime for the comment and appreciation. I've posted others from the GM Heritage Center also.
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If you go here, you can see a few more:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/user/pw-collector/classic-cars
Cool! This post is 4yrs ago, but funny I was just at the GM heritage center. But this car was not there. Very cool place for GM and old car people like me.( I prefer Mopars though)
iggy, I don't remember the number of cars they have, but we were told they rotate them regularly because the showroom is not big enough to display them all at one time.
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Seeing the Car again!!! Brought back memories, I was 13 when our father took us to the 1959 Car Show at Mechanics Hall in Boston!!! That Car was the Headliner!!!
You saw it as you entered!!!! I thought it could fly!!! GM gave out oval pocket tokens. Lost mine years ago!!!
Thanks for showing!!
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yougottahavestuff, I'm glad it brought back memories.
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