Welcome to Inkbunny...
Allowed ratings
To view member-only content, create an account. ( Hide )
Do You Like Woodrow Raccoon Better With or Without Glasses
« older newer »
moyomongoose
moyomongoose's Gallery (882)

Suddenly, It's 1960

Duran at night in 1960
previous 2 of 8 next end

Medium (920px wide max)
Wide - use max window width - scroll to see page ⇅
Fit all of image in window
set default image size: small | medium | wide
Download (new tab)
page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
page 5
page 6
page 7
page 8
"Suddenly, it's 1960" was the slogan for the all new 1957 Plymouth. However, the 1957 Mopar cars were originally meant to be released for the 1960 model year. The 1957 Plymouths, Dodges, Chryslers, Imperials and Desotos were intended to be 1960 models.
Because of the newly designed cars GM and Ford were about to release for 1957, Chrysler Corporation had to go ahead and release the cars they were saving for 1960 in order to keep up with the competition.

On page #3, I doodled around on some 1956 Mopar car pictures with my idea of what could have been possible for the 1958 Mopar models with dual headlights if the 1955/1956 designs had continued in production through 1959...All that though is speculation and guessing, but did turn up some interesting results.
In reality, the designs in the pictures I doodled on in page #3 were replaced by the newer models after 1956. The the cars in this posting never existed in the altered way they're shown on page #3 IRL.

By the way...The conversation the animals here were having was 4 years to the month before Clarence Coyote arrived to 1960.
Had the newly design models not been released until 1960 as Chrysler originally planned, provided the company stayed afloat, the 1960 Chrysler 300 and 1960 Plymouth Fury station wagon belonging to Al and Marge Coyote would have looked like what we know as 1957 models...except they'd still have dual headlights.

Keywords
male 1,120,199, fox 233,786, rabbit 129,583, bear 45,433, raccoon 34,241, cars 477, easel 40, year 1956 1, scottish pine martin 1, car debut 1, design studio 1, chrysler coporation 1, new models 1, corporate decision 1
Details
Type: Picture/Pinup
Published: 3 years ago
Rating: General

MD5 Hash for Page 2... Show Find Identical Posts [?]
Stats
161 views
10 favorites
9 comments

BBCode Tags Show [?]
 
MrRoseLizard
3 years ago
You did some interesting redesigns on those '56 Mopar cars.  The Plymouth with the redesigned grille is my favorite.  The Chrysler made me think of something Ford did IRL to their Mustang in '69: two headlights in the fenders and two more in the grille.  The Dodge looks kind of weird, though, especially with the Buick-style vertical grille.
moyomongoose
3 years ago
I appreciate the compliment. Thanks.

That Dodge with the vertical grill made me think of the Corvettes 1958 through 1961.

As far as the Plymouth with the redesigned grill, that is also my favorite. When I finished it, I thought to myself it was too bad there wasn't an actual car that was made like that.  

By the way, the 1962 Dodge Dart also had dual headlights with two of them being in the grill.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years ago
Engineering for you.
moyomongoose
3 years ago
I have to say with all boasting aside, that was I also thought when I completed altering those pictures.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years ago
It's ironic that some of the best cars are the no-nonsense ones that have little too improve on but lack sex appeal. In the coming decades cars from Japan would outperform and outlast anything they'd make! Korea is doing that now as well.
If I wanted a sexy car it'll be a Mustang (big following where I live and the just released RHD models were made with our market in mind) but for the no-nonsense it'll be from Japan or Korea with a Toyota Hilux if it were a pickup truck.
jtlander
3 years ago
The Chrysler brass didn't even mention foreign makers in their meeting, likely because imported cars were a probable niche market in the US. Little were they aware of what the future really beheld...
moyomongoose
3 years ago
I remember back in the 1960s, there was a small following of foriegn car owners in the U.S....Except for Volkswagen. Volkswagen beetles were common on American roads.
jtlander
3 years ago
Only VW could bring some serious foreign competition to Detroit before the Japanese arrived.
lupinotter
1 year, 9 months ago
very nice my grandfather has the very same car but it is a aqua blue and white i love the radio in it too i remember as a little cub the doowop all staticky brings back very happy memoires of going to the drive in as a kid it would broadcast on the car radio the movie would it was funa t night cause another station would dx over the movie signal often at late nights very crackly too and lispy i always enjoyed that my little sister did not like it but i sure did especially during the Jungle Book 1967 version they would play those classic animated movies a lot every saturday night every summer, thank you MI Amico for posting this brought back many happy kid memories for me.
New Comment:
Move reply box to top
Log in or create an account to comment.