Steel Ya

Don’t tell mama, but Greenlight Collectibles’ Black Bandit line is a cool, vaguely menacing take on a nice group of once well-behaved small scale cars.

Space Ship

Borgward came and went within a single decade, but used their years well, producing a rather interesting and innovative variety of cars in the years 1952-62. The most successful was the Isabella; over 200,000 of those puppies were built.

Only one of our subject car was cobbled together, and the 1955 Borgward Traumwagen looks like a design lifted from a science fiction novella. I’d like to know which one; here on Earth, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward’s idea was to produce the ultimate dream car in mass production. Unfortunately the dream never went further than the one-off, which was badly damaged during a test drive in 1955. Repairs and modifications were made, and further testing (possibly including signals sent to, and received from, the Mother Ship) went on until early 1958.