It was customized 1 year before seatbelts were mandatory. Besides, your best hope for life if that thing front ends fomething is being ejected as far away from it as possible
It was a custom-built show car. It didn't need to be comfortable. Or safe. Or efficient. Or fast. Or practical in any way. Hell, a lot of 'em didn't even run. They just needed to look cool, and this one succeeded.
That Deora is precisely where Hot Wheels got the idea for theirs. By the where, if you still have one, they're worth around $100-$300. The little one...not the real one...the real one will set you back $500k
I just googled the Starliner. You can’t fool me. That is clearly a Wagon Queen Family Truckster in metallic pea green with authentic imitation wood body paneling.
1959: Mercedes-Benz W111, world's first car with crumple zones front and rear, with stiffened passenger safety cage. The patent for crumple zones was applied by Daimler-Benz in early 1950's.
I think this is the attachment point. But I am sure this car was brought on a trailer. Though grandfathering in of old cars to be road legal is quite insane in the USA.
Less insane than you think, because unless you only have it registered as a collector's vehicle (restricts when/where you can drive), your insurance is going to charge you more in a year than it would cost to have aftermarket 3-point belts installed.
I was in an accident in a vw bus doing 70km/hr. The front of the van folded around me, the dash cam to me and hit me in the face, they had to pull me out the back on a stretcher after cutting the front of the van off me. I’ll never get in one again.
Not a chance. You'll be 20 yards in front of the crash, That thing has no seat belts and the front windshield is 60° off horizontal. At 60MPH, you and the passenger will turn into torpedoes.
pomax
okay so... how do you get in? Because nothing about this mechanism lets you actually get in.
2B4UALL
I thought that was the rear hatch opening with a nice drinks corner until I saw the steering wheel
HPCmonkey
This looks like an excellent way to end up instantly dead in a front-end collision.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Makes as much sense as
mrbadxampl
shut the front door!
nccomputermechanics4
This car reminds me of this character https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dzVxeHVpdHBub2lsZHhqcmx3NnUwbnl4dXhuNmQ0b3BvNGxxeGljbCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/mCdhhsCLGluNi/200w.webp
bumblebeerumble
I have a hotwheels of this
Noahbalboa82
Made for no real people. How the hell do you get in? How do you drive it without finding down like you have been stuffed in a prison cell 9ft³?
Kimsgrim
The Homer
BonkyMcSignFace
Dope! A front row seat to the collision that concludes your story
theskepticinme
BasinStreetDesign
I could live with that.
pogjack82
Fascinating, thanks for sharing!
exploradoresciclos2018
👍
MioTaalas
What a cool, but totally idiotic and dangerous design...
randoon2021
Thank you so much for posting this! If I were an eccentric millionaire I would buy the Deora!
exploradoresciclos2018
👍
Caprittles
Okay i want to say this thing looks fucking cool but yeah god forbid you get into an accident, still safer then the cyber truck.
I wounder how fast it goes...
excandusno
Built when the future was a place you actually wanted to live in
GentlemanScientist
If you were a white male.
gablestout
license2kilt
Even if you convinced me it was safe, seeing the driver hunched over like that, no thank you.
kimwimgoddess
To be fair, the driver is 7'8" tall.
MagnumRadhard
Fallout-ass car
SmittyShmee
Did the Telo truck get its body shape design from this?
thegarts
No seatbelts?
Cranbananarama
In a vehicle where you are the crumple zone, safety goes out the window.
gablestout
It was customized 1 year before seatbelts were mandatory. Besides, your best hope for life if that thing front ends fomething is being ejected as far away from it as possible
thegarts
Yikes. So
Cool though. Dying in style I guess.
intercitydude
NGL, I thought this was where the rear end of a car should be.
GeneralPrower
Funny you should say that - the successor to this car, the Deora II, used the rear end of a Ford Taurus station wagon for its passenger cabin.
ongabonga
Looks comfortable.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Yeah, if you have no neck, or head
mcbotulism
It was a custom-built show car. It didn't need to be comfortable. Or safe. Or efficient. Or fast. Or practical in any way. Hell, a lot of 'em didn't even run. They just needed to look cool, and this one succeeded.
ongabonga
Okay, understood.
Bundalicious
That looks so stupid, I want one so bad!!
yesdearmetoo
My mom let me buy the Hot Wheels version of this.
gablestout
Still have it? The original runs go for $100-$300 each now
yesdearmetoo
If only 10 year old me knew then. https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MThld2kyN2o0bWM2YThyM29maDJ0aXExeWN6bDQzbXJoZTl2M2hlZiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/H6cmWzp6LGFvqjidB7/200w.webp
Buffoonery
I had a Hot Wheels of this model when I very young.
gablestout
That Deora is precisely where Hot Wheels got the idea for theirs.
By the where, if you still have one, they're worth around $100-$300. The little one...not the real one...the real one will set you back $500k
marthafarquar
LinemanMatt
Excellent addition!
Thanks
cryborg
Apparently it is a one-of-a-kind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deora_(custom_car)
Howlingowl
Most impractical, impossible to drive, death trap, concept cars are.
exploradoresciclos2018
Gracias por el enlace. DeepL Translator: Thanks for the link.
SidoniaFalls
I just walked by that thing this morning!!
McPuffinStuff
The windshield and frame is actually the rear hatch of a 1960 Ford Starliner Station Wagon.
blessedarethecheesemakers
I just googled the Starliner. You can’t fool me. That is clearly a Wagon Queen Family Truckster in metallic pea green with authentic imitation wood body paneling.
Californiajackson
Thank god.
dedpan
Why the photo look like the Zapruder film
Evenmoreuselessname
If you guessed this was a George Barris design, you are forgiven :-)
Evenmoreuselessname
(therapy has taught me I should forgive myself)
Slugsie
Crumple zones? Where we're going we don't need crumple zones.
steelundecided
The Instakill. Won't see it coming.
Ijustwantquiet
This is brilliant. You may be maimed in an accident but you are more likely to be dead. So no problem.
ForkytheSquirrel
If it were mine, I'd totally drive it into a wall at high speed, except that I would be too worried about destroying a piece of history
mikeatike
You are the crumple zone, comrade.
GentlemanScientist
It's got a crumple zone, it's called "the driver".
baldbear
This car is from 1966. No one could have told what a "crumple zone" might be.
Profozpin
1959: Mercedes-Benz W111, world's first car with crumple zones front and rear, with stiffened passenger safety cage. The patent for crumple zones was applied by Daimler-Benz in early 1950's.
MAN9000
The dude can't even sit up straight to drive it. A bump will to break his neck.
Markodgt
HIGHWAYYY TOO THE CRUMPLE ZOOONE 🎶
pdhackley
…or headroom…
gablestout
Rear windshield of the car you rear end. That's where you're going. That thing doesn't even have seat belts.
mikeatike
I think this is the attachment point. But I am sure this car was brought on a trailer. Though grandfathering in of old cars to be road legal is quite insane in the USA.
mikeatike
Also, I'm not sure seatbelts will do you any good in this deathtrap lol.
gablestout
Less insane than you think, because unless you only have it registered as a collector's vehicle (restricts when/where you can drive), your insurance is going to charge you more in a year than it would cost to have aftermarket 3-point belts installed.
SolarJoel
Very pretty. If it gets in a head-on crash, the driver dies -- much like old VW microbeese.
TheBlueMuppet
I'm calling them Microbeese from now on.
JimJim11
I was in an accident in a vw bus doing 70km/hr. The front of the van folded around me, the dash cam to me and hit me in the face, they had to pull me out the back on a stretcher after cutting the front of the van off me. I’ll never get in one again.
0570
Microbeese? Didya mean microbus?
jacblake
Microbusen.
Theshnazzyone
I also was really confused, think he did mean bus. just that is a hell of a mistype.
bloodtaker3
It's plural
HunglikeaHamster
Either that or the fire consumes you..
CrispyNougat
The fire comes for us all.
gablestout
Not a chance. You'll be 20 yards in front of the crash, That thing has no seat belts and the front windshield is 60° off horizontal. At 60MPH, you and the passenger will turn into torpedoes.
mikeatike
If anything it gets you quickly far away from the wreck. Even more safe!