Comments on: The Retro-Future Never Looked So Good: US Steel’s A Portfolio of Probabilities http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/ Staking a claim in the automotive fringe Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:55:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Auto Cars » Blog Archive » Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-6942 Auto Cars » Blog Archive » Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:02:50 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-6942 [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...] [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...]

]]> By: Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage « Memphis Auto http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-5461 Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage « Memphis Auto Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:44:03 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-5461 [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...] [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...]

]]> By: Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-5457 Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » Four-Links – U.S. Steel’s retrofuturism, Sammy history, Ivan’s van, Old Trails Garage Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:16 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-5457 [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...] [...] * Retrofuturism’s one of those things I’d love to explore further if I had the time. Along with atompunk and jetpunk and all the other ways one can celebrate the forward-thinking optimism of the middle of the century without falling into the rockabilly trap. Anyway. Professor Michael Stoll of Hochschule Augsburg has uploaded a wonderful collection of Syd Mead retrofuturistic renderings (and so has GrainEdit.com), commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early 1960s. (via) [...]

]]> By: SeanKHotay http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4597 SeanKHotay Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:38:02 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4597 If the sea-going versions (they are used on many fast-moving and/or storm-stormin' ships) are any example, they work well. Only thing is the diameter, much larger than the sea-going versions I've seen. Tip speed must be enormous (or, if slowed, water could collect at the center) If the sea-going versions (they are used on many fast-moving and/or storm-stormin' ships) are any example, they work well.

Only thing is the diameter, much larger than the sea-going versions I've seen. Tip speed must be enormous (or, if slowed, water could collect at the center)

]]> By: _Tomsk_ http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4581 _Tomsk_ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:02:09 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4581 It's like a Pantera from a future that never happened, or is that a past that has yet to happen? It's like a Pantera from a future that never happened, or is that a past that has yet to happen?

]]> By: CptSevere http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4563 CptSevere Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:49:18 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4563 In the future, as envisioned back in the day, nobody will ever throw their back out. That's what these cars say to me. I've got a big picture of me getting in and out of these sleek wedges when my back is killing me. In the future, as envisioned back in the day, nobody will ever throw their back out. That's what these cars say to me. I've got a big picture of me getting in and out of these sleek wedges when my back is killing me.

]]> By: Age_of_Aerostar http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4552 Age_of_Aerostar Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:22:21 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4552 I think it would be cool if they spun around. It would work well for the top half of the windshield, but the water pushed to the bottom of the windshield, would just be blown back up onto the windshield having to be swept off again. cool pic, Engineerd, I think I saw this on some Modern Marvels or Discovery channel program... the designer of these is pretty wacky-but-cool. (couldn't come up with a better word to describe him) I think it would be cool if they spun around. It would work well for the top half of the windshield, but the water pushed to the bottom of the windshield, would just be blown back up onto the windshield having to be swept off again.

cool pic, Engineerd, I think I saw this on some Modern Marvels or Discovery channel program… the designer of these is pretty wacky-but-cool. (couldn't come up with a better word to describe him)

]]> By: littleYodaPickup http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4550 littleYodaPickup Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:17:49 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4550 Yikes, you're telling me. I'm kinda puzzled by the plain-looking rims on it. Oh, and it would have to be my new coffee table, since most concepts aren't street legal, right? And it's a bit too big to fit on a Fiero frame. ;+) Yikes, you're telling me. I'm kinda puzzled by the plain-looking rims on it.
Oh, and it would have to be my new coffee table, since most concepts aren't street legal, right? And it's a bit too big to fit on a Fiero frame. ;+)

]]> By: blueplate http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4533 blueplate Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:05:57 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4533 There was a Lincoln concept car which <i>you actually could have bought on eBay</i> with that name! <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/06/ebay-find-of-the-day-1995-lincoln-sentinel-concept/" target="_blank">http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/06/ebay-find-of-t...</a> But look out, that thing is kind of sharp. There was a Lincoln concept car which you actually could have bought on eBay with that name!
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/06/ebay-find-of-t...

But look out, that thing is kind of sharp.

]]> By: iheartstiggie http://hooniverse.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-retro-future-never-looked-so-good-us-steels-a-portfolio-of-probabilities/#comment-4531 iheartstiggie Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:04:23 +0000 http://hooniverse.com/blog/?p=2098#comment-4531 For some reason, when I looked at that I thought Eames Era living room and didn't think twice. Good call on the toll booth. For some reason, when I looked at that I thought Eames Era living room and didn't think twice. Good call on the toll booth.

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