Ford Mystere

The Ford Mystere was a futuristic show car designed in 1954 by Bill Boyer at Ford's Advanced Styling Studio in Dearborn, near Detroit, and shown in 1955. Its body took cues from aircraft and science fiction spacecraft, with tail fins, a glazed panoramic dome cockpit that lifted away for entry, a flight-style control stick in place of a steering wheel and early prototype radio telephone and television sets. The luggage space sat at the front and the engine position at the rear, although the car was shown without an engine, and period Ford material imagined a gas turbine power plant. Its styling is said to have influenced later Ford models such as the Thunderbird and the Fairlane.