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It’s exciting when a streaming service unveils a highly anticipated new TV series, and even more so when said series relies heavily on the cars and trucks it features on screen. It is said that in some productions, inanimate cars are as much a character as the human actors, such as the DeLorean in Back to the Future and the Impala 67 in Supernatural are the best examples.
As for Amazon’s new adaptation of the popular Fallout video game franchise, the games showed cars imagined by someone in the 1950s who imagined a future of atomic choice.
Exaggerated styling, nuclear ambitions, and masses of color are front and center in original creations like the Chryslus Rocket 69 (replicated in Forza Motorsport 6), Fusion Flea, and Pick-R-Up. While the new TV series doesn’t remake those virtual creations, the showrunners have done a wonderful job of scattering remarkable steel across the desert.
One of the most unique vehicles in the series and the impetus for this list, the real-world Mopar concept car (yes, there’s a reproduction, but Amazon has taken over the original) appears for a moment right at the beginning of Fallout. The citizens of Los Angeles disperse after a rain of nuclear bombs around them, in the background is shown the XNR, possibly the merry-go-round of a wonderful Hollywood executive.
In the real world, the design of this car was handled by Virgil Exner (note that the nickname “XNR” is just an evoked variant of his surname) and appeared on show car circuits in 1960. Its asymmetrical features and exclusive rear spoiler is a gift to its identity, not to mention its side tubes and bonnet protrusions.
The existing car has a remarkable history: having been sent to avoid being run over by bedwetting Chrysler accountants, it spent time with the Shah of Iran before escaping the Lebanese civil war and being restored 15 years ago through RM Sothethrough’s here in Canada.
What appears to be a Mercury Park Lane or similar also appears in the pilot episode of the series, which is shown for a brief moment when a father places his son in the back seat in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors of nuclear war. The angled C-pillar was similar to the Mercury and Lincoln cars of the time, with eagle eyes peering into the overall shape of a “Breezeway” window, Mercury would have ceded this perfect design feature to Lincoln at this point in the game.
In a sinister humorous tone, we see the “Do Not Follow Behind” command on the back of this taxi, an exhortation that hasn’t been necessary for more than two centuries at this point in the Fallout universe, as those scenes take place. position about two hundred years after the bombs were dropped in 2077. The taillights of this car have long since been destroyed; However, it’s pretty straightforward to speculate about the make and model.
Originally designed for a 1964 Plymouth Valiant, the car’s taillights effectively fit our estimate, however, the trunk lid has a pronounced crease that rarely comes in this genre year. Instead, we’re going to equate this exhausted engine with a 1966 Valiant. Ever since that genre took on another trunk flavor in ’66, wasting its sunken lid in the last year of this generation of Valiant. Whatever the increase in cubic foot capacity, you’ve actually given up on aesthetics.
When one of the protagonists, Lucy, approaches Fly’s enclave (yes, that’s how it’s written in the series: Fallout makes several tongue-in-cheek references to two hundred years of bastardizing once-common words and words [for a laugh, see how Bostonians in Fallout 4 think baseball was played before the Great War of 2077]), She is shown making her way through a junkyard of dilapidated cars, most of which may be known to be from the 1930s and 1940s. Remember, the Fallout universe is set in an amplified edition of the ’50s future, so this graveyard makes a lot of sense.
Serving as a long-abandoned coolant truck in front of a Super Duper Mart, it’s simple to say that the styling draws heavily on the Blue Oval pickup trucks of the mid-1950s. Ford has kept its fleet of trucks riddled with similarities from 1953 to 1956, though you claim this is a 1954 style because of some important details in the grille area (readers have no problem yelling at me in the comments to find out how fake it is). I’m talking about this hypothesis. )
Only the generic advertising aspect of a crane is shown in this clip, where a member of the Brotherhood of Steel approaches a Red Rocket truck stop, debunking any intelligent guesswork about the truck’s origin. But I will take this opportunity to silence online gossip. Nuclear-powered cars don’t exist in this edition of the Fallout universe.
Take a look at Red Rocket’s pricing column, which advertises two other categories of refrigerants for fuel sale. Another sign says the fuel station sells “fuel oil, diesel and melted. “This is a detail that gave the impression in the Fallout canon video. games.
Another apocalyptic scene shows the wreckage of what is likely a 1950s Chrysler limousine, complete with suicide doors and widened rear fenders. Less than two hundred examples are said to have been made, powered by a flat-headed, six-cylinder engine capable of carrying 8 passengers. A similar framework was also used for some years in machines such as the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker limousine.
As the Ghoul, skillfully played by Walton Goggins, is led into a government fortress (remember the intentional misspelling of pre-war parts in this universe?), he and his captors pass by what looks, at first glance, like a 1955 Buick. However, the absence of portholes on the wings and the angle of the chrome look belie this hypothesis, despite the ventilation windows that adapt perfectly to the profile.
Elsewhere in the GM empire, Pontiac had boxy air windows and Chevrolet definitely did its thing, leaving the Rocket department (aptly named after the Fallout universe) a falsified assumption. In fact, the 1955 Oldsmobile Holiday Coupe has the model’s glossy finishes. the look of the driver and the slanted rear window of this car. A rear shot that appears on the front of this vehicle confirms that it is an Olds.
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Winner: 2023 AJAC Road Safety Journalism Award through Volvo Canada
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