Photo: Michael Furman via High Museum
The streamline X Gilda, was built at the request of Chrysler Executive Virgil Exner and was visualized as a concept exploring the possibilities of design and high performance. Clearly influenced by rocket design, with its narrow, pointed front and rear fins, the original intention was to give it a jet turbine engine, but due to practicalities, it ended up with a 1.5 liter engine. It never made the road, but we bet there would have been a queue of takers if it did.
6. 1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo
Photo: Michel Zumbrunn via High Museum
The Ferrari 512 S Module, is the sort of car you could imagine driving around in space if we ever make it that far. Not as classically pleasing on the eye as models like the Norman Timbs special, Ferrari employed design company Pininfarina to conceptualize the vehicle, and this bizarre but award winning concept was the result. The glass panel doors opened forwards on hinges and, like many of the best concept cars, it was ultra low. It might just be the oddest Ferrari ever produced.