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The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City premiered the Motorama for that year on January 26th, 1954 (an astonishing 70 years ago!), and incredibly, nearly 2 million visitors attended the show. Among the “New for ’54” production vehicles from Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac were the General Motors experimental dream cars. These concepts were mind-blowing in their time and world-class examples of what America could built, when they let their designers lead the way. For 1954, GM brought the big guns of coolness, like the Chevrolet (Corvette-based) Nomad concepts, the Pontiac Bonneville Special, Oldsmobile F-88 & Cutlass, the Buick Wildcat II, and Cadillac’s El Camino, La Espada, and Park Avenue trio. The General also displayed the wildest space-age concept of them all: The gas turbine-powered XP-21 Firebird I.
Watch the film below and answer a simple question for me: If could drive one of these babies home, which would you take?
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