This truck greets visitors to the GM Heritage Center. It is a very difficult to find facility that is not open to the public. In addition to the cars there is an archive that one can use by appointment.
A wide angle shot of the floor with cars all around. About 150 are on the floor, many more in storage. One criticism -- this is all about thecars, but not about the people. Nice for the enthusiast, but asa histoical presentation it has a long way to go to reconstruct the past. Most auto museums just throw cars on the floor and think that is enough -- not so! people make history, not things.
An electric Corvair project form the 1970s.
A 1960s project car -- plenty of technology, not very much real vision.
A classic 1955 Chevy dashboard. There were great GM successes, and in 1955 they hit the jackpot.
Another economy project car -- with all that tlaent, they could not see the future.
My favorite -- taken from a Kentucky dealer, the fabulous Oldsmobile Rocket. See the epilogue of my book,
The Automobile and American Life.
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