6l Plymouth two face car

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Got these pics of experimental 61 Plymouth. A 4dr hardtop on one side and a 2dr post on other. A cost saving during car design to save from having to build multiple experimental bodies.
 
[QUOTE="SGT FURY, Got these pics of experimental 61 Plymouth. A 4dr hardtop on one side and a 2dr post on other. A cost saving during car design to save from having to build multiple experimental bodies.[/QUOTE]

This was a common practice in most design studios of the era. Once a design was finalized a full scale clay was created.
 
Actually the engineers can probably make anything the designer can draw..... It's the bean counters that are the fly in the soup..
I am reminded of a story I read of the design of the 1965 Chrysler bumpers. The stylists designed the bumper shape. The Engineering Dept threw it back as not possible to stamp bumper-thickness steel in that shape. As the story goes, the situation resulted in a stylist working on the clay as an engineer stood there. The stylist would carve away some more clay, look at the engineer and say "Can you make it now?" until eventually he said yes.

Then the bean-counter accountants would have gotten involved and said, "The tooling is going to host HOW MUCH?!?!" :D
 
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