The Exhibition What Were They Thinking? The Misfits Of Motordom in the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California is extended through July 5, 2010.
In this exhibition examples are shown, in which car designers and engineers tried to improve the cars of their times. Some of the inventions made are more than strange, others are pretty useful and worth thinking about. All of them certainly are good examples of out-of-the-box thinking.
You can see the 1957 Liberty Mutual Survival Car which was the attempt to improve safety for the driver, the passengers and even the pedestrians. Or the 1934 Chrysler Airflow, a scientifically aerodynamic car that didn’t match the styling trends of its time.
Another misfit was the 1959 Chevrolet Corvair. It was designed to compete with European compact cars like the Beetle and had an air cooled flat rear engine and rear drive. The American drivers though didn’t get on too well with the car and caused several accidents, therefore the car was thought of as being unsafe.
These are of course only a few examples of what you can see at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
On Saturday, December 5, 2009 the 4th Annual CARnival Family Fun Day will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All children are FREE on that very day.
