stuny Posted May 14, 2023 Share #19721 Posted May 14, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well, let's try this: From 1968-1974 General Motors produced a number of hard tops similar to Nigel's mystery car, all sharing chassis, running gear, engines, and a lot of the sheet metal of their X-platform. The X-platform goes back another 4 or 5 years earlier, as a replacement for the Chevy Corvair, a remarkably good car killed by Ralph Nader's misleading data and suspension illustrations. Those earliest cars were Chevy Nova, with Pontiac joining them a couple of years later with the Ventura and the GTO. The type of body Nigel's picture suggests are the '68-74 versions. After that the Oldsmobile Omega, Buick Apollo and the Acadian Canso (Canadian Buick) also used the next revision to the X-platform. The shape of the back seat side window is not quite right, but the rest looks right for the '68-74 Nova/GTO. Perhaps this is a prototype or styling buck for the '68, which had some changes to it before going into production. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NigelG Posted May 14, 2023 Share #19722 Posted May 14, 2023 Stuart is right re the date (1968) and Pippy is on the right track…. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19723 Posted May 15, 2023 '68 Chevy Malibu hardtop, or a lower model of the '68 Chevy on the same platform and basic sheet metal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19724 Posted May 15, 2023 Stuart has the correct model - now the harder question : where is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19725 Posted May 15, 2023 Trying to narrow-down the list of 'Location' options was this car/bodyshell used against a 'green-screen' (Blue-Screen in the photograph?) for filming studio-based close-up scenes and the car is it still in situ whereby visitors doing a studio-tour can take the place of a famous actor in a famous scene and be filmed whilst doing so? I ask because, several years ago, my daughter 'flew' a broomstick with the eponymous schoolboy et-al in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'. We still have the DVD somewhere... Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19726 Posted May 15, 2023 Maybe this is the one used in a Chevy commercial, or in Catch Me If You Can or Talladega Nights Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19727 Posted May 15, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) It does relate to a movie indirectly - but not one you would see in the cinema/movie theater… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19728 Posted May 15, 2023 Does that leave out the Chevy TV commercial? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19729 Posted May 15, 2023 Yes - not on tv Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19730 Posted May 15, 2023 (edited) Possibly a 'concept car' based on a Camero and linked to the TURBO film – and exhibited at a US auto show – maybe in Chicago? Edited May 15, 2023 by dkCambridgeshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19731 Posted May 15, 2023 It’s a production model of the ‘68 Malibu - but it has been modified to recreate a frame from a high speed film camera recording of a “performance” or maybe a “happening” and that is why it is located where it is (though it was somewhere else in the US in 2010) It’s a bit niche so I’ll put the full image up later to see if anyone knows. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19732 Posted May 15, 2023 Perhaps it's in simulated freefall, back end first, or if not, passing so quickly the foliage is sucked into its slipstream? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19733 Posted May 15, 2023 The keys are the words "performance" and "happening" This is no longer just a '68 Malibu it is actually an artwork... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19734 Posted May 15, 2023 (edited) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! (They were draining and refilling the "pond" on that day) Edited May 15, 2023 by NigelG 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! (They were draining and refilling the "pond" on that day) ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4772293'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19735 Posted May 15, 2023 That led me to Mr. Google telling me about the artist, Gonzalo Lebrija's History of Suspended Time, for which he dropped a Malibu from a crane into a lake, using a high-speed camera to capture the moment the car broke the water's surface. He repeated that in Mexico City, and for a while a static version was on the plaza outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and at the Palm Springs Museum of Art. Your image looks like the Palm Springs location. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 15, 2023 Share #19736 Posted May 15, 2023 I forgot about the car - We saw it last fall in Palm Springs Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4772319'>More sharing options...
NigelG Posted May 16, 2023 Share #19737 Posted May 16, 2023 Correct Stuart ! I guess the precise answer to the name of this car is “History of Suspended Time (A monument for the impossible)” rather than “Chevy Malibu”… https://www.psmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/gonzalo-lebrija-exhibition Over to you. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 16, 2023 Share #19738 Posted May 16, 2023 Thank you, Nigel. Let's try this one. All the usuals. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=4772825'>More sharing options...
Lelmer Posted May 16, 2023 Share #19739 Posted May 16, 2023 5 hours ago, stuny said: Thank you, Nigel. Let's try this one. All the usuals. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Ferrari? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 16, 2023 Share #19740 Posted May 16, 2023 Alain - Yes, Ferrari 2 hours ago, Lelmer said: Ferrari? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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