Topic: Solved - NEH 482: Pontiac Strato Streak Concept Car 1954

[Carnut]

A nice easy Rookie point for identifying this car and when it appeared:

[kach22i]

Is that a Egan design by any chance? The same guy who helped design the Tucker?

Alex Tremulis was the chief designer I think, maybe him?

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[Carnut]

AFAIK neither Egan nor Tremulis were involved in the design of the puzzle car.

[Carnut]

All right then, an easy Expert point...

[CyCarConsulting]

1954 Pontiac Strato Streak  at the 1953 Motorama show.

[Carnut]

1954 Pontiac Strato Streak  at the 1953 Motorama show.

See - I told you it was easy!

[Carnut]

And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:

[Carnut]

And here's the original puzzle picture, un-doctored:

[Ray B.]

You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.

[Carnut]

You doctored it well but you left the emblem on the trunk, which is the Pontiac signature of these years.

Oops..  I didn't know that and seems no-one else did either - at least no Rookies!

[Otto Puzzell]

Pretty car.

[Carnut]

That 3-piece rear window was used on the 58 Vauxhall Velox/Cresta completely unchanged!

[Otto Puzzell]

Oldsmobile and Buick also used that rear window configuration in '57. Oddly, Pontiac opted for a single-pane, wrap-around design.

[Ray B.]

And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.

[Carnut]

And full-size too. I guess that on the Vauxhall it had shrinked some.

Guess so, although you can't tell from pictures.
The UK car would undoubtedly have been a 75% scale model of the US one, although I remember it being utterly outrageous over here back in 1958; but for small boys like me at the time it was The Way Forward!

[kach22i]

And to answer kach22i it was designed by Harley Earl:

Thanks, I thought it would be someone more obscure.

[Otto Puzzell]

In color