The legendary car from General Motors, which was decades ahead of its time (6 photos)

In the 1950s, GM held a regular Motorama auto show. And in In 1954, when this model appeared on the stand, everyone froze. Car really looked fantastic.





Pontiac Bonneville Special - concept car created by Harley Earl, famous auto designer of the first half of the twentieth century. With GM he started cooperate in 1927, and in 1954 issued this masterpiece. Bonneville-in honor of the dry salt lake, and today races are held on it and speed records:



The car already had a fiberglass body and plexiglass windows.





We also worked with the interior: we installed a three-spoke steering wheel, chrome instrumentation and two bucket seats. Auto could accelerate to 193 km / h.



The model is equipped with an 8-cylinder engine with a capacity of 234 l / s and an automatic transmission.



Pontiac Bonneville was made in only two copies: one orange, the second - emerald. Orange car fell into the hands collector Joe Bortz and stands in his garage, and the emerald Pontiac in In 2006, he left the auction for $ 2.8 million.