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Made for Movie 'Flo'

Made for Movie in Cars, Animation Movie, 2006 IMDB

Class: Cars, Proto / Concept — Model origin: US

Made for Movie 'Flo'

[*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

AuthorMessage

explorer4x4

2006-06-17 17:23

Ford in the background? And on insideline.com they said Flow wasn't based on a real car.

Ddey65 US

2006-06-18 03:57

I could've swore Chrysler had a concept car like her in the late-1950's.

philr CA

2006-06-18 07:11

This is supposed to be a Motorama (GM) show car. While it doesn't look exactly like one of them, it has some styling cues from the 1951 LeSabre and 1951 XP 300 Motorama show cars.


See this link to a picture of the 1951 LeSabre.
http://auto.tom.com/img/assets/200308/0829_sm12.jpg

Yvon52 BE

2006-06-18 10:41

you're right, it's the spirit of Chrysler company "dream cars"

here a link with all them = fabulous

http://www.desoto58.com/mopardreams.html

antp BE

2006-06-21 17:49

How do we list this one then? 1951 GM LeSabre ?

[Image: snapshot200606102229209av.th.jpg]

wickey SK

2006-06-22 01:24

[Image: flo.jpg]

-- Last edit: 2017-10-28 11:01:59 (opal)

IRT_BMT_IND CA

2006-06-25 17:17

You could list it as "Custom"

Paulius43 LT

2006-08-10 13:43

Here's the quote from IMDB Trivia:

Flo isn't based on any single car but shares elements of the 1951 Buick LeSabre,
the 1951 Buick XP-300, and the 1957 Chrysler Dart -- all actual show cars.

SnotRodFanatic

2006-11-21 03:04

1957 Motorama show car.

carfan US

2006-12-20 22:22

Plate Number: SHOWGRL

58Roadmaster US

2008-06-04 07:29

Actually there was a Buick XP-75 that you could say looks like "Flo."
http://wikicars.org/en/Buick_XP-75
Also the Skylark II:
http://wikicars.org/en/Buick_Skylark_II

The GM LeSabre had horizontal front wings, not canted as it appears only when "Flo" is smiling. But I have to admit, the side body shaping is closest to the LeSabre, even if the fins are from somewhere else ;).
Link to "www.seriouswheels.com"

-- Last edit: 2008-06-04 07:31:18

skywatcher68 US

2008-06-17 16:10

The nose and front quarter trim are LeSabre, the side trim is XP-300, the fins are from the Dart and that's a very Mopar-ish deck lid.
www.arabalarim.org/data/media/16/1951_Buick_XP300.jpg
www.shorey.net/Auto/American/Chrysler/1957%20Chrysler%20Dart%20Concept%20Car%20Rr%20Qtr.jpg
www.autoweteran.gower.pl/concept/1956_Dodge_Dart.jpg

-- Last edit: 2008-06-17 16:25:05

58Roadmaster US

2008-06-18 04:13

Nice research! Haven't seen those Chryslers before. I should see the LeSabre and XP-300 this year in Flint, MI!

skywatcher68 US

2008-06-18 15:09

Thanks, but I've had Cars of the '50s (www.kiosquauto.com/Product.asp?pid='5829') practically since it was first published in '78 and recognized Flo's various parts immediately. Yeah, that was me who put the trivia in IMDb. :)

Those taillights are something else entirely, no idea if they're just exaggerated from the Dart like the fins or if they had real-world use anywhere.

-- Last edit: 2008-06-18 15:14:15

1979lincolntowncoupe CA

2010-02-08 05:18

exaggerated 61 chrysler 300g?

skywatcher68 US

2010-06-02 20:21

I think I've found the source for her taillights!
vehicle_185701-Chrysler-Falcon-1955.html

Darkaind RU

2017-03-18 07:09

Plymouth Fury 1960?

CyrusRamsey97 CA

2017-04-03 07:25

I don't think Flo is a Buick (maybe I'm overthinking this, but if her husband Ramone is a Chevy, wouldn't that mean they're related...?) although, like several cars in this movie, she doesn't appear to be based on one specific model. She's supposedly a 1957 Motorama show car (although, in reality, there was no Motorama show that year), although I think she looks a lot like a Chrysler 300 from somewhere around that era.

Reg1992 US

2017-05-19 07:51

I didn't know of any early-50s cars that had fins at all. That was more of a late-50s thing that peaked in 1959.

Baube QC

2017-05-19 16:24

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/GeneralMotorsLeSabre.jpg

it was a concept car so.. anything goes.. ;)

franchumar AR

2024-12-12 23:37

1955 Ford Mystere?
/vehicle_221197-Ford-Mystere-1955.html

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