Alfa Romeo 1600 Scarabeo, 1966, designed by Sergio Sartorelli at Officine Stampaggi Industrial (OSI). A mid-engined prototype based on the principle that the driver should be seated as far back within the wheelbase as possible. It was a serious proposal from OSI for a limited production model but only 3 prototypes were built and of those 3 only 1 has survived to the present.
Scarabeo I’m sure I had a toy model of this from Playart when I was a kid.
Anna Monika Jost, Olivetti - A contemporary image of style and industry, poster sketch, ca. 1966, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Postmodernism during modernism The deconstructed type interests me, 20 years before David Carson and Emigre. An error in the scan, or how it was?
Jensen Intercepter Prototype (by Touring) and Interceptor Mk 1, 1966. Designed by Carrozzeria Touring of Italy, early bodies were built in Italy by Vignale before Jensen took production in house to their Kelvin Way Factory, West Bromwich near Birmingham, England
The Interceptor which did make it
Jensen Still glorious, when car makers thought that petrol would always be cheap.
Peter Lupus, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Graves and Martin Landau in “Mission: Impossible“ season two.
Everyone remembers this team The quintessential Mission: Impossible team. The bar was set high, and it was never surpassed.
1966 Car Ad, Chevrolet Caprice, Girl in Red Bathing Suit (2-page advert) (by classic_film)
Black and white and red over Chevrolet injects a bit of glamour for ’66. Nice, tidy modernist layout, too.
Riley Kestrel
Interior of Lockheed 2000 supersonic transport plane, 1966
Ralph Crane
In plane sight Where modernism and retrofuturism intersect.
Ghia Fiat 850 Vanessa 1966, a concept designed specially for women, or at least the stereotypical 60’s woman. So swivelling seats for ease of ingress/egress whilst wearing a skirt and a built in child-seat with it’s own gull-wing side hatch for lifting junior in and out. It was, of course, pink
Pretty in pink That side gullwing door doesn’t seem that bad an idea. Maybe it’s time for a rethink.
Before the Doctor Simon Templar battles the Master.
Stefanie Powers in ‘The Girl from U.N.C.L.E’., 1966.
Beholden Before she was Jennifer Hart.
Gebrauchsgraphik
1966 Wonderful stuff. I remember seeing these when I was younger.
Goddess Had to reblog.
Swinging in London Sophia Loren (in Dior) and Gregory Peck on the set of Stanley Donen’s Arabesque, one of my favourites.
dishtinctive tashte
hmm yesh
J. B. Not much patriotism for Scotch then.
