Buick Concept Cars

General Motors designer Harley Earl is generally credited with inventing the concept, or show, car, and did much to popularize it through its traveling Motorama shows of the 1950s. (Press release photographs)

Prominently displayed among special exhibits at the Chicago Auto Show, February 24 - March 4, will be the 1938 Buick experimental Y-Job, often referred to as America's first true dream car. With creator Harley J. Earl, GM Styling Chief.

In 1950, General Motors introduced "Le Sabre" which was truly a laboratory on wheels. Designed by the late Harley J. Earl, the GM Vice President in Charge of Styling, this low slung Buick dream car had the first panoramic windshield and many other innovations now found on production cars.

Buick's XP-300 has one of the most powerful and compact engines ever designed for an automobile. The engine is a super-charged V-8 type and has a piston displacement of slighly more than 215 cubic inches.

LINK: Lots more cool stuff to be found at Chuck's Toyland.