1959 Cadillac Cyclone concept car - GIF

1959 Cadillac Cyclone concept car.

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Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the 1959 Cadillac “Impallor”. :)

Looks like the Great, great, great ancestor to the land speeder in star wars! :cool: Love the color changing paint and the gold rims are very cool...but thought it should be twin Turbines (Torpedo's) like the 63'/64' Chrysler.

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Something is off with that photo. The real Cyclone is silver and is still in its original configuration. Either someone made a replica or that's an AI-generated photo.

It's the coolest Cadillac from the era bay far.

Neil

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Originally Posted by sossol

Something is off with that photo. The real Cyclone is silver and is still in its original configuration. Either someone made a replica or that's an AI-generated photo.

It's the coolest Cadillac from the era bay far.

Neil

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Agreed Neil! The more I thought about color changing paint...it didn't come out until 79' and remember seeing it then at the Cow Palace car show in SF. Did some rabbit hole work and found it's not in the GM Heritage Collection any more and is now owned by Audrain Automobile Museum. Note the slide show and in particular look at the front end...the headlights are completely different as well as the dash, than above.

Looks like the ToolTalkBot caught this off of Facebook and is some replica show car based on a 71'-76' impala or Caprice....and supposedly 24K gold plated rims.

Glamour cramming social media BullCycles and bots without ethics! With all that said...it does look pretty cool with the low profile modern tires and stretches the imagination of what could be. But old school sliding doors, tipping canopy that stores in an air bag in the trunk, forward looking radar, a 390 big block and 4630 lbs. of rolling rockets...still rocks the day. :clapping:

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Originally Posted by PJs

Agreed Neil! The more I thought about color changing paint...it didn't come out until 79' and remember seeing it then at the Cow Palace car show in SF. Did some rabbit hole work and found it's not in the GM Heritage Collection any more and is now owned by Audrain Automobile Museum. Note the slide show and in particular look at the front end...the headlights are completely different as well as the dash, than above.

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I assumed that the headlights are the same - just look different because they're stowed in the photos of the original car. They look like landing lights from an airplane.

Neil

This concept Caddy came out when I was a sophomore in high school and working 3 evenings a week and all day on Saturdays in the local body shop in the small town where I grew up [all homework done first and grades kept up]! It was a whole new dimension in vehicle refinishing and still remains a rather secretive type of paint today. This specific Cadillac concept car was NOT originally painted with what is now referred to as a Chameleon" paint job! I challenge anyone to locate the actual beginnings of the real Chameleon paint system as it was developed by custom body shops over the years as an "eye" catcher and most of the paint in the era of this specific concept car was of a "metallic" system rather than a "pearlescent" type paint system. I had to dig a bit to try to find out when the actual "Chameleon" finish became popular in auto refinishing and most of what I used in my shop was of the "pearl" type refinish jobs.

With that said, that photo of the "Concept" Cadillac vehicle had to have been refinished sometime in the 1990's as that was when Chameleon caught the eye of the mural artists and refinishers during that time. I have seen no less than 5 Chameleon finished restorations on the roads here in the Florida Panhandle in the last 20 or so years and they will stop a clock with the brilliance in which they can change so rapidly and produce a myriad of color changes with every move on the street in a bright sunny down here in my "sandbox"!! I truly cannot imagine anyone doing a Photo Shop "paint job" in Chameleon of any color but the finish on that photo vehicle is exactly how the finish can change from one portion of a single panel to another and overall cause a person to doubt their eyesight when they see one of these paint jobs slowly cruising down a city street. If you take in the different color changes of one of these vehicles sitting still and then watch the same vehicle slowly move forward, you will see a smooth almost liquid change take place as the color changes slowly creep up and down the panels of the vehicle as it moves away or across your line of sight!! I guarantee that once you take note of a "Chameleon" colored car or pickup or whatever is moving down the highway, you will never see colors again to match what you saw, it is truly a "chameleon" changing its color right before your eyes.

Editing note: What I first thought was a well sprayed pearlescent finish is actually a "Chameleon" type of special finish which has a very hazy background in that it was slowly developed by mixing modern ingredients together to make a properly sprayed and finished clear coat system on a custom car appear to be changing color and light reflects off of its surface.