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Puzzle #1349 - GM Cadet Microcar
« on: July 03, 2009, 02:52:58 AM »


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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2009, 05:27:33 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 12:46:29 PM »
Is this from General Motors?  I saw something about this recently, and that's what comes to mind.
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 05:28:51 PM »
You are on the right track...
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2009, 05:26:33 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2009, 06:14:09 PM »
Looks like a shrinked fun fair version of the Corvette Stingray C2
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2009, 04:11:46 AM »
Quote from: grobmotorix on July 17, 2009, 06:14:09 PM
Looks like a shrinked fun fair version of the Corvette Stingray C2

Interesting observation - and there is a connection.
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2009, 07:35:29 AM »
to fun fairs?  :D
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2009, 07:39:11 AM »
Electric?
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2009, 08:19:18 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2009, 08:27:23 AM »
Quote from: Allemano on July 18, 2009, 07:39:11 AM
Electric?


Had it gone into production it would have had a gasoline engine.
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2009, 08:31:42 AM »
So, it remained only a non-functional mock-up?
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2009, 08:51:49 AM »
Caption of the original pic:
1956 GM Styling Studio, (Peter) Brock in a full-size mock-up of his Cadet. "students car"

a second pic:
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2009, 04:59:46 AM »
Yes!

Says Pete Brock, who was 19 when he designed the car:

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(Harley) Earle was so excited about the Cadet, he planned to showcase the car to all of GM' s upper level executives and dealers at Styling’s annual internal VIP car show.  At the show’s end, after attendees had survived hours of blinding chrome on the new 1958 GM line-up, the lights went low as other cars were cleared away, and then they came back up on this beautiful little jewel of a $1000 car, slowly spinning on a turntable… the Cadet.  The audience fell silent.  It was about a third the size of anything they’d seen all day. No one knew what to say… they sat in stunned silence!  The only chrome on it resided on slender door handles.  After a few moments, the president of GM, Harlow Curtice, stood and formally announced: “GM doesn’t make small cars”.  The lights went out and the car was never mentioned again.

Brock had conceived it as a low-cost commuter for students - a demographic of which he was a part. The project started with a casual conversation between Earl and Brock:

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Styling’s towering presence engaged the young designer in an informal conversation and asked what the young kid thought of GM’s current direction.  No doubt thinking he’d hear enthusiastic praise, Earle was probably a bit surprised when Brock immediately shared that he thought GM was missing the mark.  “There are two areas we should address," responded Brock. "First the Europeans are making tremendous inroads on American sales. We don’t have a single small car in our line up to counter that. Second, there’s an immense, untapped market for a “student’s car” that no one has even considered; GM’s missing it out there. Young guys like me, going to school can’t afford big cars.  We can’t even park them on campus”; Peter relays with a chuckle at the thought of his telling Harley Earle he didn’t understand the car market.
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Re: Puzzle #1349
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2009, 07:19:37 AM »
history repeats itself...

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NEH 1493
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2012, 07:27:50 AM »
For 1 point identify this little car and when it was built?

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Re: NEH 1493
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 05:21:36 AM »
Since this was actually a repost and the Rookies haven't identified it I'm merging it with the original puzzle.
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Re: Puzzle #1349 - GM Cadet Microcar
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2015, 07:44:13 AM »
Mr Brock was/is very talanted
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