Dodge Dart Seneca for sale NOT MINE
When you look at the dart from certain angles you can barely tell it has fins. (See the black and white photo below from Leave it to Beaver that illustrates my point). The 1963-64 turbine cars are ok,but look like a Ford design,which makes sense since Elwood Engle was responsible. I hate the thick ford style c pillars on the car. Ford for the most part wasnt good at futurism. Those thick C pillars were part of the stodgy "formal look" ford was so fond of.
Chrysler had experimental turbines in Forward Look era cars,Virgil Exner had one with giant blade type fins nearly as high the roof. To me the turbine engine melded perfectly with the Forward Look aesthetic. The engine of the future for the car of the future. Chrysler should have put the turbine in the 1956 Dart concept car. The 57-61 cars look so much more attractive and sleeker than what came after. When the fins came off it was never the same again. That was the closest we ever got to Jetsons cars.
The last photos are of the very first Dart. The 1956 Dart concept car! This is what the turbine car should have looked like in my opinion
I like the Phoenix too,but wish the fins were larger like the Polara and Matators. The fins are the biggest disappointment on the Dart series and I have no idea why they were so conservative with the fins on the Dart when all the other Chrysler products were getting wilder and larger fins.
When you look at the dart from certain angles you can barely tell it has fins. (See the black and white photo below from Leave it to Beaver that illustrates my point). The 1963-64 turbine cars are ok,but look like a Ford design,which makes sense since Elwood Engle was responsible. I hate the thick ford style c pillars on the car. Ford for the most part wasnt good at futurism. Those thick C pillars were part of the stodgy "formal look" ford was so fond of.
Chrysler had experimental turbines in Forward Look era cars,Virgil Exner had one with giant blade type fins nearly as high the roof. To me the turbine engine melded perfectly with the Forward Look aesthetic. The engine of the future for the car of the future. Chrysler should have put the turbine in the 1956 Dart concept car. The 57-61 cars look so much more attractive and sleeker than what came after. When the fins came off it was never the same again. That was the closest we ever got to Jetsons cars.
The last photos are of the very first Dart. The 1956 Dart concept car! This is what the turbine car should have looked like in my opinion