1960s

In the 20th century, World’s Fairs were some of the best places to see concepts for the future of technology and transportation. At the 1964 New York World’s Fair, General Motors turned up with the Bison, a concept design for a truck that looked like something that might be used in space exploration, rolling along the surface of a lunar colony or something.…

Toyota’s EX-III was a sleek and hypermodern sports coupe shown for the first time at the 1969 Tokyo Motor Show. The car was designed in-house by Toyota rather than by the typical European design firms typically selected to create concept cars at the time.…

Perhaps the most unusual concept car of all time (and that’s saying something), the 1967 Dodge Deora was like an adult-sized toy car. In fact, the award-winning car eventually was made into one of the original 16 Hot Wheels cars.…

The McLaren M6GT was the first road-legal car that McLaren ever made. The car was meant to be a homologated version of the McLaren M6A Can-Am race car, and was powered by a Chevy V8 engine.…

Have you always wanted to ride around town in the Batmobile? Well, if your last name is Wayne, and you’ve got 200 grand lying around, this one is ready to roll out of your personal Batcave.…

Jay Leno and Tim Allen are both certified car nuts. The two have faced off on Jay Leno’s Garage on several occasions, and they are back at it again in a sleeper drag race.…

People have been talking about the potential for a mid-engined Corvette for years now, but nothing has come of it from GM. Rumor has it that the engine is finally migrating for the C8 generation, but only time will tell.…

This incredibly cheesy commercial for the then newly released 1968 Mustang is a far cry from today’s youth-oriented ad campaigns for Ford’s pony car. And while the cast of characters are clearly different, the marketing message is largely the same that it is today – driving a Mustang will automatically free you from your hum-drum life.…

While we’re big fans of the power and performance you can get in today’s Camaros, we’ve never been huge fans of their design – probably because all they ever remind us of is The Transformers’ Bumblebee.…