The Space Age Hits the Road: Visionary Car Designs in America

1956 Pontiac Club de Mer

From 1953 to 1961, GM hosted a traveling extravaganza called Motorama, where they premiered new production cars and showed off experimental vehicles. Prior to this, automakers did not exhibit their design studies. In 1956, the company’s Pontiac division debuted a car on the circuit that scarcely resembled anything previously seen on the road. The Club de Mer was equipped with GM’s most powerful engine, a 300-horsepower V8 known as the “Strato-Streak.” It lacked a conventional front grille, normally used to funnel air that cools the engine. Instead, the front end of the car featured a wide, narrow slit. 
 

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