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1955 Ford Mystere

1955 Ford Mystere in Toy Story 2, Animation Movie, 1999

Class: Cars, Proto / Concept — Model origin:

1955 Ford Mystere

Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

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Author	Message
vilero ◊ 2009-03-24 12:19	dragonboy wrote
toastersatilite ◊ 2009-03-24 12:51	The thing with cartoon cars is that they don't have to be based on real cars but it looks like a 1955–1956 ford from the sides with tailfins from a 1959 Cadillac.
Ddey65 ◊ 2009-03-24 15:02	I was thinking this might be some mid-1950's Ford concept car, until I saw the taillights in the first thumbnail.
Julian ◊ 2009-03-24 21:47	It looks a lot like the 1955 Ford Mystere show car.
firebird86 ◊ 2009-03-25 00:06	julian wrote It looks a lot like the 1955 Ford Mystere show car. I agree, completely http://www.carstyling.ru/en/cars.1955_Ford_Mystere.html
CougarTim ◊ 2009-03-25 05:56	Wow, I'm impressed. When I saw this movie years ago, I assumed Al's car was just an amalgam of various jet-age styling features, but looking at pictures of the Mystere it's clear there is a direct inspiration. Good job, Pixar!
MBSL65fan ◊ 2009-05-07 03:44	Hot wheels once made a toy from this car based from the movie. I used to have one.
Leoz ◊ 2010-06-24 00:33	Retro fifties' Concept car - Perfect vehicle for a collector.
opal ◊ 2012-05-11 11:38	-- Last edit: 2017-02-17 16:12:07
train68 ◊ 2020-12-24 03:57	This paint scheme reminds me of Flo from Cars.
Skylah_5741 ◊ 2021-11-28 21:06	CougarTim wrote Wow, I'm impressed. When I saw this movie years ago, I assumed Al's car was just an amalgam of various jet-age styling features, but looking at pictures of the Mystere it's clear there is a direct inspiration. Good job, Pixar! thing is, it sorta is, cause the front fascia and headlights are from a 57 lincoln
ThatVintageCarGuy ◊ 2023-05-13 06:53	Skylah_5741 wrote thing is, it sorta is, cause the front fascia and headlights are from a 57 lincoln 1957 Lincoln Premiere front clip?
franchumar ◊ 2024-12-14 01:34	opal wrote In Back likes a 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood
lukapavosevic ◊ 2024-12-14 08:12	franchumar wrote In Back likes a 1960 Cadillac Fleetwood That's the thing with cartoons. The producers make cars better (sometimes grosser) than in real life
alex5 ◊ 2025-12-15 20:03
San ◊ 2025-12-15 20:15	macsmotorcitygarage wrote The 1955 Mystere show car was originally intended to showcase Ford’s infant gas turbine technology, but it soon earned a more direct role in the company’s product plans. Like so many vehicles of the Motor City’s classic dream car era, the Ford Mystere was never a real automobile as such. It was a pushmobile, i.e. a glider as they are known in the Detroit styling studios. As finely finished as the Mystere was on the outside, there was nothing inside or underneath: no engine, drivetrain, or suspension. It was only a pretty face, sigh. On paper at least, the Mystere was to be hypothetically powered by a gas turbine engine, but the Dearborn automaker’s turbine technology wasn’t yet ready for a real running prototype. (For example, see our feature on Ford’s experimental Boeing-powered ’55 Thunderbird here.) Working from an original rendering by the prolific Bill Boyer of the Ford Advanced Styling Studio, the company’s stylists worked up full-sized interior and exterior package on a 121-inch wheelbase. However, the Mystere’s actual construction was subcontracted to Creative Industries, a Detroit company that specialized in building show cars and prototypes for all the automakers, and had special expertise with fiberglass and molded Plexiglass structures. The Myster’s futuristic cockpit featured a number of forward-looking features, including a television in the rear seat and four shell-style bucket seats. Note also the distinctive throw-over steering yoke, an idea apparently borrowed from the Beechcraft Bonanza, a glamorous personal aircraft of the period. Since the vehicle was not a driver, we wouldn’t know how functional the Mystere’s dual-driving setup was, but our guess is not very. In the original plan, the Mystere was to make its debut at the 1955 Detroit Auto Show, but that launch was scrubbed when Ford decided that two of the show car’s most visible features, the deep-vee side trim and diagonal tail fins, were headed for production on the 1957 passenger cars. (The Mystere’s contribution to Ford’s ’57 production car design is described in the Ford styling film we’ve featured here.) The Mystere did eventually make a public appearance at the Chicago Auto Show in January of 1956, below, where it received extensive press coverage.

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