1955 Lincoln Futura Testing at Ford Motor Co.
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- The design team at Ford Motors shows how a car is built from concept to reality. The ending shows the 1955 Lincoln Futura in wind tunnel, freeze chamber, and on road testing.
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The timeless batmobile!👌🥰👍
Actually the original bat mobile. Was built by some else in New Jersey. And Barris stole the car and the idea my Uncle Jack worked for him from ‘64-‘74. And he told me so. But the org had 3 fins in back. And it was based on a T Bird / Chrysler. Car
Those designers were special.. amazing footage.. thanks for sharing
I wish our world was 1950s retro futuristic instead of how it is today.
It was the heyday of the concept car. Nowadays, it's done more cheaply on the computer.
MrShobar Not even half as much effort they put in today than back then.
Who couldn't use some of the Jetson's/Lost In Space future to liven things up? (BTW, you can look up "The Future That Never Was" on Amazon)
@@cadillacjack7313 No more need for a pattern shop.
All conceived by CAD programs.
Cadillac Jack play fallout.
Or mafia 2.
But yeah, sometimes I do wish that,
Gotta love those "jet engine" sound FX dubbed over the Futura on the test track!
If you look at the '58 Lincoln you can see a lot of the Futura in it's design.
5:25 Looks a bit like a prototype of a 1960 Ford. Thanks for sharing this!!!
Love how the "plastic canopy" opens and closes with the flick of a switch.
Not sure why he even needed to do that. Originally, the system was operated automatically. Pull the door handle to release the door and the top automatically went up. I suppose they could have bypassed or replaced that system by the time this film was made.
Great video on 1950's classic car design. I wish today's computer designed and robot assembled cars would be good and durable as the American classic cars.
The 1960s were a great time period, The announcers voice is almost like every classroom film I watched as a kid ( on the reel projectors) in grade school. His voice is so reassuring and authoritative, Shame men don't sound like this anymore.
Those guys had more fun than ANYONE.
Now that is a purdy Lincoln!
Its overwhelming obvious that creators of 1966 Batman tv series viewed this feature in creating their show from rocket generators sounds.too mr freeze inducing torture..Futuristic Ford Lincoln Division predicts FUTURE AMERICAN TV SHOW 66 BATMAN...THANK YOU. POSTING
Thank you, George Barris and Ford , for the BatMobile !!!!
Oh the awful thought of all those wonderful design renderings and sketches simply burned up...all those wonderful drawings destroyed,a huge loss to automotive history!
That was also my immediate, jaw dropping, thought.
Mark E. Yep. It hurt so much to see it destroyed :(
I guess they do it to prevent someone from running off to a competitor with the drawings.
Some were snuck out. Bribed the security Uncle told me.
7:11 Testing against Mr. Freeze attacks.
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing
That drawing at the end I would pay a million for
"It Started With A Kiss", 1959 starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds
*_”The American Dream, Only A Footstep Away! The New Lincoln Futura!”_*
The part with the clay model really helps me understand how to build a replica scale clay model of the 1955 ford mystere
The futura was custom built for Ford by the Italian coach builder Ghia...the created those shapes by hand! Over wooden forms then shipped the whole thing over from Italy...
I think the car's engine would've needed to displace another 200 cubic inches just to run an air conditioner powerful enough to keep the driver alive inside that canopy during direct sunlight!
I like Cool... I have even awaken with snow on my bed... more than once.
Given how styling actually evolved, The "Astrion" looks new than the futuristic "Futura"!
The Astrion looks kind of like the 1961 Lincoln Continental.
quality, safety and efficiency don't matter just as long as it looks good.
I wonder how much the old guy got paid to stand there staring at the flames...
What happens to or happened to all the clay used on the mock ups? did they re use it or junk it?
Industrial espionage was a genuine problem. Those drawings would bring good coin if stolen and sold to a competitor. The trash from the office was also regularly searched by competitors in the quest to gain a competitive edge.
if you look at the two second mark , you can see the tailights that became the chrysler turbine car
+radioguy1620 that was elwood engles dream car he designed for ford called the "galaxia"-when engle went to chrysler he took the idea with him
very cool, wonder if Jay knows
By 65 the futura was a rusting hulk in barris's lot.
I saw it parked beside the driveway of Barris' shop next to a gutter at the street during the summer of 1962. It had been painted day glow red with the interior painted (without question) black from a "rattle can".
Later learned the mint green paint created a hassle when filming the first movie it was in as it effected the light as seen by the film (Black & white).
Someday someone will sit down and identify all the "Batmobiles" and repops of the original Ford built car..
That turbine power plant sounded good.
This is where the BATMOBILE came from. For real. No joke
The funny part of that Futura is the underpinnings were still the same as was the power plants of the “Futuristic Futura”
I love the car it's beautiful
!!! those ideas, all burnt..
i wonder how many great things have been lost forever due to that process.
Old geezer security guard: Yep, she's on fire alright. Those drawings are up in smoke.
Wow.. very interesting!
This is interesting to see. I was under the impression the Futura was painted red for the 1959 movie "It Started with a Kiss". However here, it's already red for testing? That makes me wonder if FORD actually repainted the car to keep it fresh on the show circuit. Strange that the interior has also been redone in red and black as opposed to the white and black it originally was. This all leads me to believe the car was already red before being in the 1959 movie.
+Harold Lloyd Exactly my question as well.
Ditto... I am sure that the car was repainted for the movie from a pastel green to red. George Barris told me himself and I saw many pictures before and after. Seeing it red at the test factory was odd to say the least.
@@crazexskater Unless this is AFTER the movie? But then they'd be using a 5-year old car by that time. Doesn't really make sense, does it?
My father was a Tool And Die Maker for an automotive company.
The Budd Company.
Used to bring some of that clay home for us toddlers to play with.
Your dad might have made the brakes that were on my '68 New Yorker and also on my AMC Gremlin!
@@That_AMC_Guy The dies made body & fender part stampings. I worked there too. AMC used Raybestos & Bendix Brake parts
@@Mynamesalexa AMC also used Budd brakes for a number of years.
@@That_AMC_Guy That was another factory.
There were 3 or 4 in Pa.
I worked at UPS Automotive for 25 1/2 years and they used Budd Wheels.
I know in the 60s he made dies for the Javelin and AMX bodies and fenders
Bruce: "Does it come in black?"
My uncle got to work on these at Mercury. And then went to Chryslers.
Fords Lincoln division created MASTERPIECE 55 futura experimental..this car llives forever ..At beginning of feature employee enters secret development workshop & security guard closes door in front of camera operator!!!! FORDS LINCOLN DIVISION DOES NOT WANT CHEVROLETS CADILLAC DIVISION..OR RUSSIANS STICKING THEIR SPYING EYES ON THEIR ETERNAL MYSTERIOUS MASTERPIECE !!!!!!..ps This feature predicts future of this cars blackbird rocket induced prefformability...Holly cow Bat man!!! Thank you for POSTING..APPRECIATED
Somehow I don`t see the Astreon as a 55, more like early 60`s. Does anyone know for sure?
As someone noted below, the care became the Batmobile!
Thats right!!
Amen to that!
Le davan demasiado corazon a los diseños i proyectos con el tienpo dejaron de ser tan perfeccionistas i sinplificaron mas las técnicas haora solo necesitan una conputadora nisiquiera cartulinas i papel gastan jeje se acabo ka calida humana
Damn how did we go to hell in a hand basket in less than 75 years
It was THEIR- plan. Kinda- like no-planned OBSOLLESSENCE.
Yes it's even look like mid 60s way ahead of it's time, strangely the big fins that appear in the late fifties lasted 3or four years, then they went back to about more conservative form the best example is my favorite ford, the galaxie 500 (à cause de ça forme épuré ) is in the same idea as the astrion, and by the way look even more like a Newport ! I had a 68 Newport with a383 it was supercool ! :)
The Batmobile!
very cool
No, this IS the Batmobile. That very car ended up being in another movie, cant remember which but ended up being in Batman.
That ornament on the trunk of the Futura looks like a gun sight. Perhaps they envisioned a day when people shot at each other on freeways. And look at the size of that steering wheel, like something you'd find on a bus. Any design worthy of the name Futura ought to have power steering.
That "ornament" is actually a microphone. The Futura's plexiglass windshields and dome were so thick, they were virtually soundproof once the doors were closed and the top locked down. The only way to hear what was going on outside was with that microphone.
At 2:50 similar to the advent of the seatbelt, eye protection was not a thing for Bob Miller..
Holy showcar, Batman!
I was born that year. 1955. 😁
nice
I see a lot of future Ford's in the astrion
This is a promo film from 1962
So I guess that solves the riddle as to why the Futura is in red.
The car was painted red because the mint green paint did not come out very well on movie film.
Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed.....Roger, ready to move out
Interesting
If only they had kept all those sketches in a vault, the old school swagger would ooze out of those pages.....
For fun, here is a link to a large print of the Lincoln Futura. This came from a digitally restored original promo photo, sent out to newspapers back when the Futura was a fixture at all the car shows. Enjoy!
www.etsy.com/listing/121075633/vintage-car-print-the-original-batmobile
Too bad they couldn't have used the color version of that photo.
I wonder which management fellow said, ' I can't see it, could you build me a full size model out of clay?'.
0:28 then the 80 year old security guard is murdered.
Fun...
3.00, the days before safety concerns.
While most corporate car senior management have their heads firmly up their asses, the visionary they hired by mistake is banging on their locked doors, desperate to show them the possibilities. But to no avail. We all pay the price.
Front Looked like 61-65 Lincoln
The junked car looks like a 61 Buick.
I wonder how many of these jobs were replaced by the computer.
T-Bird influence’s
Astrion looks like a Chrysler Newport.
Who were the Modelers 🤔.
😃👍
Looks more like a 61-63 T Bird
Building fine cars was a serious thing back then? 🤔
Not all were burned!
Henry Ford II at 1:35.
Roof line Impala ?
it's a shame the original wasn't kept like it was from the factory using molds from it instead.
7:45 test driver in a lab coat! lol
Thought the same thing. And no seat belts either.
Seat belts were not around when that car was owned by Ford...
why do these futura cars at 50 + years later look so hokey? I wonder if that magnificent failure the Edsel got a few people summarily fired!
7:57 What a look!
Galaxie 500 1966
All that money and work on the Futura only to be sold to George Barris for $1.00.
It otherwise would've been destroyed.
I would have paid at least a hundred
And what did Barris get at auction? 7 million?? that's a hell of an investment return.
Why would they want Ford motors? Germany had some pretty good motors and cars right there.
All these employees are gone now? 💀💀💀
Funny....ever notice the narrator voice is always the same?
Lincoln?
Wasn't it a pale green color before it was red? Saw many pictures of it and it was green and George Barris repainted it for the movie "it started with a kiss" and the studio sent it back to Barris who eventually bought it for a dollar. Then converted it into the Batmobile and created a LEGEND.
"Pearlescent, frost-blue white was the brand new color painted on the Futura, in Schmidt's attempts to capture the iridescence of the fish he had viewed in the Caribbean. This brilliant color was created by Ghia who ground and pulverized the scales of thousands of fish to mix into the paint color."
It looked better before the end result
"exotic fuels and electrical power"....and here we are still burning fossil fuels....what a bummer.
I WATCHED THIS BECAUSE OF GOTHAM GARAGE
why would you burn up designs when you could make em hot wheels cars
Ford Pinto.. Everyone?
Whew... not one woman... not even a secretary or even a model...
Are you new to the mid-20th century or something? Not trying to be rude
that mentality, paved the way to horribly designed vehicles.