Mark VI Autopia, June 1967
There's just something about the classic Autopia; I love the various styles that Bob Gurr cooked up over the years (even though versions he dislike, such as the Mark V cars), I love the winding miniature highways, and the often-smiling faces on kids and adults alike.
Big Sis is returning to the Autopia load area, based on her expression I'd say she had fun. I'm a little confused about the fact that we are seeing Mark VI cars in June of '67, since the familiar Mark VII cars were introduced this year - but we all know that date stamps can lie. Perhaps the photos were taken many month earlier. It's also a bit strange that the cars are slightly different shades of blue. Where are the yellows, the greens, the candy-apple reds? Looking in the distance we can see...
...Kid Sister, in her "Peter Max"-colored dress and proper white cardigan. She's not smiling, perhaps she had a premonition of the future, since it feels like the Autopia's days might be numbered. I hope I'm wrong! Hey look, a white car, what an exciting color variation!
The Mark VI cars always remind me a bit of manta rays.
3 comments:
Major-
"Kid Sister" gets bonus points for sporting 'sideburns'. Just who does she think she is... her younger brother-?
Thanks, Major.
Interesting shapes to these cars: Sort of a Car-of-the-Future mixed with a 1959 Ford Thunderbird. Not a bad combo! I'm sure Bu will spot that CM leaning against the pole with his hand in his pocket! ;-)
I think the non-smiling Peter Max girl is being intent on her driving skills: Hands at 10 and 2, eyes on the road, stiff upright posture. Actually, her hands are more like 9:30 and 2:30. But I'm sure she's concentrating too hard to notice.
It'd be cool if Disney made a ride that had manta ray ride vehicles. Maybe put it in Avatarland.
Nanook, haha!
Nice photos of blue (and 1 white) cars, Major. Thanks.
........since it feels like the Autopia's days might be numbered.
I saw a couple articles posted on F.B. within the last month, about how Disney is going to be converting the Autopia cars to electric. But I didn't click on either of the links. I usually don't click on those kinds of things, because they often turn out to be just clickbait and it's just one so-called "influencer" giving their personal "opinion" or "guessing." However, I thought one of them was a news report from KTLA Channel 5 (in Los Angeles). I guess that doesn't automatically make it accurate information.
I have never liked the current "cartoony" Autopia vehicles. They look like they belong in Toon Town. Wasn't there talk some years ago, about taking out that chunk of Tomorrowland, and replacing it with an Ewok forest? We kind of need that to balance out Wookie World on the other side of the park. NOT!
Thanks Major, for the cool pics of some cool cars!
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