Product Description
Richard Arbib was born in 1917 in Gloversville, New York.
He studied design and got a job at General Motors, where he worked with star designer Harley Earl.
After World War II, the Henney Motor Company hired him, and from 1951 to 1954 he turned his dream into a car.
The Packard Super Station Wagon, with its slightly curved rear window, was designed based on the ideas of Arbib, who was 37 years old at the time.
In the 1950s, he planned to build a car reminiscent of cars from the year 2000, and he realized this idea by calling it the Astrognome (a car that travels through time and space).
It was based on a 1955 Nash Metropolitan (also known as the Baby Nash).
Arbib focused primarily on the exterior of the car, particularly the semicircular roof cover that offers passengers a panoramic view.
The spacious interior space has also been recreated.
The car is slightly wider than a typical small car, and the interior space is considerably more spacious.
The car of the future was commissioned by American Motors Corporation (AMC), developed by Richard Arbib and built by Andrew Mazzaro in New York.
According to reports at the time, the entire process took just four months to complete.
Visitors to the 1956 New York International Auto Show got their first and only glimpse of this vision of the future.
The car then fell into obscurity, only to be rediscovered in 1980.
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Item Size/Weight : 18.2 x 8 x 7.5 cm / 212g
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Product Specifications
- Item code
- 03027
- JAN code
- 4907981695514
Purchase Information
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