autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

thank you Larry, glad you enjoyed!

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Excellent set Vince!

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Excellent series of some beautiful exotics. I could see me in that Chrysler Atlantic.

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

thanks kindly Bill!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

yes, one sweet looking car, but according to the magazines and the test drives, after it's drop dead gorgeous lines it falls short on overall performance! But, with something that looks this good, who cares about performance! Thanks Alberio!

FL Streetrodder

Interesting post of some rather interesting styling exercises, I really like the presentations. The rear view of the 1st car makes me think that Ford remembered seeing it and incorporated it into their "Bullet Birds."

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Maybe they put an old Slant Six in it. I could think of many Big Block wedge engines to give it life.

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

thanks so much, glad you liked!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

well, they tried something else. Many of the cars that the Atlantic emulated were from the thirties, like some of the Bugatti's and Talbot Lago's from that period. There's an amazing similarity to those cars in the Atlantic! And, they all had inline 8's under the hood. So, what Chrysler did was to mate 2 Neon twin cam 4 cylinder motors together to produce their inline 8. And it actually pumped out over 350hp. But, a combination of the overly large wheels and tires being driven by a transaxle from one of their other cars basically strangled whatever power was coming out of that bastard inline 8 they cobbled together. For the most part every component under the body was nothing more than odds and ends from their existing cars, and handling and overall performance suffered because of it. Let's face it though, the car was never designed to go into production, it just had to sit at car shows and look pretty, and it did that very well!

BTW, a slant 6 did go into one of their concepts, the Plymouth XNR, but IMO, that car is hideous looking, and "they" thought it was sporty enough to compete with Corvettes and the earlier two seater Tbird! They had to be smoking something!

BurghByrd Loc: Pittsburgh

Beautiful shots!! The Chrysler Atlantic seems to have taken styling ques from Bugatti.

black mamba

Very nice work, Great array of cars. I've seen the '41 Phaeton and a couple of other Chrysler concepts that weren't at that show. But the rest were new to me Thanks for the posting.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

yep and my dad would not co sign a loan for me when the salesman started running his mouth about the engine

Chiroman8

Autofocus,

Thanks for shearing ! Nice pictures!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

oh, it definitely did, and how about the name too, Bugatti Atlantic Type 57! Thanks!

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

Thank you, at least 3 others were at the show that I did not post, including the turbine powered one and that awful looking Plymouth XNR