More recently unearthed pictures from Chicago Disappointment Parades of years gone yore, courtesy of alert reader and fellow eye-candy hoarder Steve Miller (apparently).
Behold the wild designs of car designers cut off the leash... and then rapidly re-leashed before anything interesting was actually put into production.
See the booth babes of ages past!
Wonder how old they must be by now!
Take a Silkwood shower because you feel dirty inside!
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| The 1950 Nash NXI, surprised by an unannounced visit from the company brass. |
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| Despite the rather more conservative air of 1951, you can tell she's a booth babe because no human would ever voluntarily hitch up their knee so awkwardly on a car high as her belly. A double-jointed hip was an asset on the resume of a 1951 Crosley booth professional. |
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Design genius Harley Earl's visual opus of restraint and minimalism, the 1953 LeSabre concept car. A design so ahead of it's time, we wouldn't see anything like it again for another forty years (see below).
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| A scandalously-clad booth babe in the Muntz booth, 1951. You can see her ankles! |
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| 1956 Packard Predictor, still can be seen at the Studebaker National Museum in Indiana. I'll just remind you that Studebaker also brought us the oddly displaced-in-time Avanti. Why do the good ones die, while the survivors are nearly indistinguishable? |
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| Hey! a '59 Toyota! It may have been a little early for Japan to push their Japanese-ness so hard with the kimono and all. According to Steve Miller, "In 1960, the kimono was gone, replaced by a typical American girl-next-door in a typical American girl-next-door gown." |
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