Oldsmobile Golden Rocket

The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket was a two seat show car that Oldsmobile built for the 1956 General Motors Motorama. It was a fibreglass concept styled like a rocket on wheels, in metallic bronze with bullet shaped chrome pieces in the front and rear fenders, and it was revised several times and shown at other events, above all at the 1957 Paris Motor Show. The roof panel rose automatically when a door opened and the seats lifted three inches and swiveled outward, and it was among the first cars with a button controlled tilt steering wheel. A 324 cubic inch Rocket V8 tuned to 275 horsepower powered it. Its split window fastback shape came back on the 1963 Corvette Stingray. The car appeared in the film Design for Dreaming, and whether it survives is unknown, with a rumor placing it in New Jersey.