Unveiling the restored Golden Sahara II
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Goodyear and Klairmont Kollections unveil restored Golden Sahara II on translucent Goodyear tires at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show .
In collaboration with Klairmont Kollections, Goodyear unveiled the restored Golden Sahara II at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. An iconic custom car of the 1950s and 60s, the Golden Sahara II was one of the first concepts of autonomous vehicles and was fitted with glowing, see-through tires that were custom developed by Goodyear.
That style, that music… it made my heart soar… I’m 25 years old, and that was one resounding ad for a car!
That car is so breathtakingly, otherworldly gorgeous, I'm not sure if I'm actually awake right now or just dreaming.
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The George Barris - Jim Street custom car was far ahead of its' time. The vehicle preceded another Barris' creation, the Batmobile, by 10 years and partnered with Goodyear to exhibit the "Glass Slipper" tires. Some might say that this car is so unique, given its' place in history, that all other custom cars thereafter tip their hat to the Golden Sahara concept!
What the future was supposed to look like......instead they gave us the 'smart car'! :)
Ah yes, the future where your tires only last for 1 trip before melting. It was so fragile that applying the brakes would melt them. It's a show tire... it was never meant to survive actual usage.
@@ryanthompson3737 actually it was originally intended for actual usage, it just didnt pass the initial testing.
@semiramisbonaparte1627 Original intention and reality is different. I can INTEND for a 10kg of TNT lit under my ass to show me the winning lottery numbers, doesn't mean it EVER stood a chance in reality. In reality, it was never going to work and any scientist with more than a few braincells knew the ONLY way this works was to make it a luxury show tire to be slowly driven down the street in a parade. Like you said, it should've been hidden away as a dark little secret the first time it was tested... obviously not since there are commercials for it.
That makes literally no sense. Your just making up a weird way to whine about something modern.
Did you even watch the video? They even say it had radar braking (aka automatic emergency braking) a screen in the center console, and accident avoidance, which are arguably "smart car" features. This is exactly what youre complaining about, but with glowing tires
-So now I can see where the 1958 Lincoln Continental, 65 Ford Galaxy & the 1965 ,67 Cadillacs got their inspiration from with the vertical & forward slant quad headlights. The Golden Sahara is still so retro/futuristic cool that it's too bad it never became a production model, with maybe 1 or 2 changes.
With tires that flashy, i'm surprised it's not a part of the low rider scene
They're extremely unsafe and probably even more so with hydraulics and stuff
They never went into production.
We still have glow in the dark car tires today. But Goodyear's glow in the dark car tires were ahead of their time. We need to bring them back into production.
The thing is that neothane tires have no grip in the rain, and they melt when you hit the brakes too hard.
Cool looking tires on stage, don’t wanna be next to them on the highway though.
@glotrim appreciates the engineers that proved out that concept.
imagine the technology we'd have today if self braking & driving were common in the 50's
Screw self driving
It really sucks the auto industry went into making quantity rather than quality. That mind set shifted engineering away from new innovations.
You can get a quality vehicle, it'll just cost $200k+
What do you mean? There are plenty of quantity cars and plenty of quality cars, it just depends how wealthy you are
@@absolutemattlad2701Sorry to break it to you,but there are no "quality" cars made today. The cars today and ugly,poorly engineered pieces of crap.
1957-1961 was the best year ever for cars
I wanna know about the glowing wheels
They were made out of Durathane and originally had lights in wheel well, I heard the new wheels have less mounted in the tires.
The video literally tells you 😂
@@JohnathonStaggs I'm sure it did I usually make comments before the video even starts
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@@dark12ain it tells you about the synthetic rubber and the manufacturing process of how its molded, not how it is illuminated.
phenomenal good job
Oooo man he has the Lincoln concept in his collection also!! I want that collection! I hope who ever gets his collection takes care of it.
Why does the audio sound like it's 200 feet behind me
Trippy!
The audio is partially out of phase. This is when the sound wave in one speaker/headphone is mostly moving the opposite way to the other, instead of being mostly synced up.
I was born on 1991 and I think 50s and 60s vehicles were the most beautiful. Probably I am a minority.
Nope. Not even uncommon.
80s 90s all the way , scirocco, lancia , cosworth to name a few . Those actually do what they are supposed to do !
What a good looking car
This is so cool!
I just watched the original video. Remote control, sonar braking, steering by a rheostat from the passenger seat? I gotta go see this thing.
I love the car is being restored. But don't cut corners... the truth is in the details
but restoration is a restoration, you can't cut corners, if you do, it's a "modification".
That is too cool, why not bring back translucent tires?
Because they don't work.
@@a099258 They didn't work in the 50s, but with 60 years of tire technology, it might be possible.
@@ZerotheWanderer I suspect that the steel belts in today's radial tires would keep that concept from making a comeback
Other drivers would be entranced by the glowing tires, run red lights and crash in awe
@ZerotheWanderer Actually a chemist from.DuPont who worked with Goodyear claimed.they had come up.with a formula that negated the issues in the original neothane formula but the project was ended without further development because they were considered impractical
Breathtaking
Why didn't they invest in the wheels for commercial production? Would make night driving so much better.
Because it had a low melting point. Even applying the breaks started melting the wheels and it could only work in PERFECT conditions. If we drove on them, there would be a car accident every 2 feet.
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Wish i can buy purple glow tires
Good Year, if you would make your tires with an outer layer of phosphorus mixed in with the rubber and the other coloration used in these kinds of tires, from the video above, coupled with lights on the inside tire wells aimed at the tires, you could help to save lives. People have a lot of trouble judging how fast night-time oncoming traffic is going, just by the headlights alone, because it's a 2D "flat" image coming at them. Having 4 glowing tires coming at people waiting in crosswalks or at 90 degree angles at intersections would help them more accurately judge how fast a car is coming at them, at night. Plus, it would be so distracting to them that they'd be more likely to stop and just look, rather than trying to "dodge" autos coming down the road! I mean, 4 glowing, colorful tires - that's quite a sight!
I dunno? Imagine the majority of cars having these wheels. It would be Total Insanity and chaos. Flashing lights everywhere so to speak
How are those photos edited? they look AMAZING
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Why did these colored tires never be a thing? And when do we get glowing tires ?
They were NOT meant to be driven.
@@rogerc.roberts4705 would still be cool to have. I saw a video on here about a guy trying to start a business doing color tire though. So hopefully soon
Speak like you have some brains. Tires are a "thing". If you're asking why illuminated tires were never produced,say that.
@@rogerc.roberts4705 Yes,they were. Goodyear kept experimenting with the formulation,but it was found the Neothane didn't grip the road when wet as well as rubber,that it melted under hard braking and that the tread wore out faster due to the softer composition. Supposedly all those issues were close to being resolved when the project was closed.
I wish we still have those type of cars then which we still can they just choose not to
BRO DID THIS MAN CALL THIS BEAUTY A BARN FIND ? BANISH HIM !
Still confused about how the tires work
Barris built the Batmobile on a Ford Futura chassis. assuming this is similar then what kind of car is this based on?
The first version was built from a wrecked Caddy.
Can you still buy those tires anywhere??
I have alot of respect for Barris, but, it's hideous.
Why can't we make pretty things anymore?
I see stuff like this and then look outside... Disappointment.
TV inside
Video at 1:23 in 1080p has problem
Can i get some Neothanes? Its time to bring back luminescent wheels.
Nope. They're fragile and melt easily. It would only last a trip to the grocery store before you'd need to buy a whole new set of tires. Even applying the brakes would begin melting them down. This is only meant for the showroom, or else you'd be buying 4 new tires every day.
@@ryanthompson3737 The turn signals in the wheel hubs is pretty cool though.
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the wheels look cool on this but they'd look ugly on modern cars
For one, no. For another, they'd save lives. Looks aren't everything, but anyway, they'd look fantastic!
That's because modern cars look ugly themselves.
now even more hideous
1:44 So ok kids,on the Passenger side that gold thing connected to a curled up cord is called a "telephone" Cool car but that steering wheel omg bad.
Sorry for this is grotesque. The first combo of depression and oil crisis did America a favor by wiping out monstrosities like this one.
Goodyear, pay close attention to Gillette.
Men speak with their wallets and yours will get more empty, just like Gillette (P&G). Get woke, go broke.
Goodyear, never again.
TACKY.
Very ugly as any North American car