1958 Ford La Galaxie

Концепт La Galaxie был создан в 1957-м году в рамках проводимого фирмой Ford исследования тенденций развития автомобильного дизайна. Примечательной особенностью автомобиля стала заявленная "возможность установки ядерного реактора". Проектировали La Galaxie конструкторы и дизайнеры из Advanced Studio и Lincoln-Mercuri studio. В период с 1958 по 1962 год автомобиль неоднократно демонстрировался на американских и европейских автосалонах.

Ford worked its way through many contorted schools of styling such as the Z-back roof (in the 1957 La Galaxie). It went on to become increasingly unhinged as it proposed a nuclear - powered dream car called the Nucleon in 1958, a gyroscopically controlled two-wheeled car called the Gyron in 1961, a three-wheeled flying car called the Volante the same - ear and a vast six - wheeler called the Seattle-ite in 1962.

It should not be surprising that, after that lot. Ford’s design team and the pubic had something of a dream-car hangover, and Dearborn’s output of show specials petered out in the 1960s.

A portion of the 1958 Ford exhibit was set-up as a Ford Motor Company design studio. The full-size, non-drivable La Galaxie styling study was a center piece, surrounded by several 3/8 scale Ford dream cars. These smaller models included names like "La Tosca", which was a radio controlled toy; the atomic-powered, jet-style "Nucleon" and a sports car titled '"DePaolo."