Author Topic: #A069 by Amsterdam SOLVED: 1955 Disneyland Prototype Autopia Car (Read 2325 times)

Amsterdam · « **on:** May 09, 2010, 05:13:02 PM »

Can you tell me what this is? Please repond below and if you are right on this I will award you with one point

Amsterdam · « **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2010, 05:04:48 PM »

Experts?

guido66 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2010, 05:12:21 PM »

electric?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2010, 05:25:45 PM »

AFAIK... Yes

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2010, 02:01:38 AM »

I don't think so - at least not the ones I drove.

guido66 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2010, 10:38:02 AM »

Pedal powered, then?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2010, 01:50:58 PM »

Sorry for my mistake. clearly I have never been there

seems like it has a small engine using ordinary gas as fuel

guido66 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2010, 01:58:51 PM »

Are they used on a resort of some sort?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2010, 02:27:57 PM »

Yes something like that, althoug this pariticular one was never used there. The ones that where used needed some protective body modification.

guido66 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2010, 02:53:10 PM »

Oversized bumper cars?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2010, 02:59:20 PM »

Yes they needed some protective bumpers

guido66 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:03:40 PM »

Used to play car soccer?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:16:30 PM »

Good idea!!....don't think it is allowed though

guido66 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:28:27 PM »

Golf cart?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2010, 03:33:38 PM »

No not a golfcart.

CyCarConsulting · « **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2010, 04:56:34 PM »

Quote from: Amsterdam on May 09, 2010, 05:13:02 PM

Can you tell me what this is? Please repond below and if you are right on this I will award you with one point

EXCELSIOR AMUSEMENT PARK GO KART

Amsterdam · « **Reply #16 on:** May 27, 2010, 05:19:24 PM »

Amusement park...yes.
Exelsior go cart.....no.

Amsterdam · « **Reply #17 on:** June 12, 2010, 03:20:51 PM »

Professionals?

João · « **Reply #18 on:** June 12, 2010, 03:29:50 PM »

1954-55 Autopia Prototype Car?

Amsterdam · « **Reply #19 on:** June 12, 2010, 05:24:02 PM »

Yes! the 1955 Disneyland Prototype Autopia Car.
That makes a nice round score of 250 points

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:44:37 AM »

I know the first car you pictured as the Cedar Point (Ohio amusement park) Turnpike cars, built by Arrow Development Co., of Mountainview, California. They also built the Autopia cars for Disneyland. The second group of pics represents the Mk I Autopia car.

Amsterdam · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2010, 10:42:14 AM »

Hmm, that is strange. I have found the photo on a site that goes with an article in wich the reporter made this picture at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Fransisco.

Quote:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Autopian Paradise
Not long ago I had the opportunity to preview the new Walt Disney Family Museum opening in San Francisco this fall. This 1954 prototype Autopia car is a total charmer. Sporting a deluxe red and silver paint job, cushioned seat, dashboard gages, and sealed beam headlights, the little car is a donation to the museum from Walt's own grandkids.

Is it possible that a Cedar Point Turnpike car was purposed by Arrow Development Co to Walt Disney as a prototype for the Autopia car?, as the one in the picture never made it to the parc.
According to the site it was owned by Walt Disney and a donation to the museum from Walt's own grandkids and shown at the Walt Disney Family Museum in picture below.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2010, 04:12:08 AM »

I'm pretty sure Disneyland had them first. Similar cars and tracks were sold to other amusement parks by Arrow. I saw the site where you pulled the picture; and I'm pretty sure he mislabeled the picture you used in your puzzle post. In Disneyland parlance, that's a Tomorrowland Mark VI Autopia car, which is the same as the Cedar Point Car. The ride opened at Cedar Point in (I believe) 1967.

These 7 HP rear-engined screamers were favorites of my kids when we visited Cedar Point. The picture below shows a grouping of the cars at Tomorrowland, in the shadow of the Monorail.

Amsterdam · « **Reply #23 on:** June 14, 2010, 05:55:47 AM »

So the car I have posted is a Tomorrowland Mark VI Autopia car?

Carnut · « **Reply #24 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:12:25 AM »

Nice pic:

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