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Homer LeGassey of GM design was the principal exterior designer of this olsmobile concept

Great piece thank you for sharing! And now I'm even MORE curious as that bill of lading lists it as Oldsmobile XP-20 car #4. As I understood it there were only 3 actually produced. Were the parts for this one made alongside the others and it was never initially assembled? Or,did Harley decide to follow the letter of the GM edict by destroying the only 3 known while having the parts for this produced and stashed on the side?

Allow me to correct the record: the car may have been a design marvel, but it was an engineering run-of-the-mill.

It's a shame that both this Olds and the Pontiac Banshee were turned thumbs down by Chevrolet. Frankly they both have great style over the 53/54 Corvette.

Corvette Americas second sports car / Crosley Hot Shot 1949 was first !

Beautiful machine, great story, well done.

People should build those.....

The glory days of American Iron long gone but will never be forgotten 😊👍❤️❤️❤️💋💋💋💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏

That was the one to build, wow

To see this as it was THEN and you look at what these turds are making NOW. GM designers need to be terminated. Sad to see what Mary Barra has allowed this once great company become. Free fallin'

There was a Buick and LaSalle version of the Corvette also

that would be so coolto own

Wow. Why would a car company destroy these works of art? Shades of the destruction of GM's EV1.

Beautiful car, should start building it now.

This story is exactly why I hate bean counters.

Hey Rick where you from? You look familiar

Harley earl and Bill Mitchell were my absolute favorite gm designers. It's what I always wanted to , work at Chrysler or gm as a industrial designer. Parkingsons took that from me. However, I still deeply respect Mitchell's and earls work.

It was the best sports car of the decade. And, would have spanked the '54 Corvette

Oldsmobile wanted an F body (Camaro /Firebird) in 1967, answer from GM no! Oldsmobile wanted to put their W43 and OW43 into production, answer from GM no!

I've read that Harley Earl said the 1954 Cadillac is the first car that looks as good driving away as it does coming toward you. My late Father had a 1955 Series 62 convertible that he traded in six months before I was born. As a boy when he showed one to me, I instantly fell in love. Years later and just before his death, I bought a '54 Eldorado convertible and hid it in my garage. I surprised my Dad with it, and we drove it on Route 66 together..... it was the last car he ever drove, and I still have that car today. I agree with Mr. Earl, it is truly a beautiful car.

10/12/2021 So “it sat there for a number of years?” What’s this “number of years” crap? Don’t these people know how to speak intelligently? What number? Ten years? Fifteen years?

This is the Zygote of the Oldsmobile F-88, the lucky one.

Ok

Great web page thanks

Thank you Mr. Earl so much for creating this beautifully done documentary with care and love when you didn't have to, at all. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will share it with others. Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I really like this one better than the Corvette, and that's saying a lot because I love both.

I’d love to invite you to discuss this vehicle in person. Thank you for sharing this piece of history.

Sure glad you put this together and shared it with us gearheads !!!!

My friend Jerry assembled the this car for Mr. Cord. in his garage at his his. All the parts were in boxes. Mrs. Cord would unscrew some of the light bulbs because they were taking to much electricity. Jerry was in his twenties when Mr Cord, hired him to oversee this project. One day Mr. cord sat Jerry down and told him his whole life story. Jerry is in his eighties, and still pretty sharp.

This is one hell of a car. It would look nice in a garage side by side with a Corvette. It's been said before, but I'll repeat it. Take the body styles from the '50s and '60s and upgrade them to today's safety standards and fuel economy.

No one has ever matched your grandfathers taste of dynamic styling.

Mr. Earl designed those cars so well, even when you weren't driving them you could enjoy them.

One of my favorites was the 1954 La Espada. Looked like a mix of the Eldorado and later Corvette.

Please GM, make it today and I'll buy one.

It is a beautiful piece of art.

Well done Rick. More Harley info please!

Great vid, I subscribed! I think you should take a look at smzeus”.”com to grow your channel and get more social proof!

Is it for sale?

Comment by David McGee -Harley Earl and the GM team were pioneers in the art of the automobile, but more importantly, they were design geniuses. Today, too many automobile manufacturers follow the "form follows function" maxim. In Earl's day, while utility was an important consideration, flowing lines, pleasing ornamentation, and the visceral reaction upon seeing seeing one of their creations were just as, if not more, important to the designers. In short, these cars were art. Today they are finally being recognized for their art as the vehicles and the many illustrations and design proposals are being exhibited in art museums. Truly a great era in design and innovation!

Excellent...A great tribute !!!

Great segment.

You can see that the paint on the door is darker than the rest of the car...same car as in the ad. Amazing. Look at Netflix "Shelby American", There is a Surf Green F88 at 9:08.

The F-88 could have easily have been produced and been something for Jaguar to be very worried over.

Very nice! I’m still enjoying one of Harley’s best designs ever (IMHO): The ‘49 Buick. The detailed interior is the best interior when it comes to style and grace and the exterior is perfectly balanced by the golden ratio. Design excellence on wheels.

The F-88 was not intended to be put into production. It was for show and for Harley Earl's use, too. Indeed at least two were built for managers to drive. Sherrod Skinner of Oldsmobile got one of the other. Oldsmobile did not have a customer base to support sales of the F-88. The car was an exercise in showing what GM's designers could do. Not every F-88 was ordered to be destroyed "when the project was terminated." I have copies of GM documentation ordering the refurbishment of one of the cars in 1958! Of course, that is not the car which is known to survive today. I have not seen anything so far that actually ordered the destruction of any of them. I am the author of two heavily researched books on the GM "Dream Cars" of the 1950s - "GM's Motorama: The Glamorous Show Cars of a Cultural Phenomenon" (2006) and "Motorama: GM's Legendary Show and Concept Cars" (2015).

Thanks for sharing Richard!

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