I while ago I posted a cool little plastic car from the Gooble Gang [below], which would have done Commander Straker proud. Well here's another one on the ebay radar, an ultra-retro Futura 21. What an Andersonic auto. The 21 must be inspired by the Andersverse. Did anything like it appear in the shows?
Futura 21 picture: Fizzycat45
Oh my! This is cool, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI love the night-drive artwork.
But did you notice ... in the artwork the car is left-hand drive ... but the toy is right-hand drive. Why, I wonder? American artwork but British car? Perhaps there are left-hand drive versions too?
Or maybe the designer realised you couldn't trust a guy to drive a car as cool as this so he put the steering wheel on the woman's side? Heh heh.
There were a variety of such bubble-top show rods in America in the '60s, both toy and actual, but this one seems to be based on a Lindberg model kit, the "GT 200 Dream Car." Here's a discussion of it and a very similar slot car, with photos:
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Thank you, Dev. Good link. And interesting that those ones ARE left-hand drive.
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