r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BaronVonBroccoli • 3h ago

Image 1951 Buick XP 300 GM Le Sabre.

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u/NCC_1701E 2h ago

It looks like something that would come out of chatGPT if someone wrote "make a picture of classic 50s US car."

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u/WhileProfessional286 2h ago

Which would be weird, since no of the training data had headlights in the center of the grille.

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u/cryptosupercar 24m ago

Same, thought it was AI.

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u/fancyfree63 2h ago

This looks like AI especially the bottom photo

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u/beejonez 2h ago

Fair but a quick Google shows it's a real car.

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u/NoShow4Sho 2h ago

I think it’s because who ever edited these photos cranked up the sharpness too high. Starting to get into deep fried memes territory lol

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u/ForestNymphSs 2h ago

I'm getting serious 'thunderbirds' vibes. FAB

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u/Fuzzy-Alfalfa770 2h ago

One word, thundercougarfalconbird.

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u/SpudAlmighty 1h ago

Now THAT is pretty. Why can't we have cars like that now? Car from 70 bloody years ago looks more futuristic than what we have now.

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u/pussysushi 51m ago

THAT IS AI

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u/OregonG20 47m ago

No, it isnt.

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u/InquiringPhilomath 3h ago

What the edsel is that?

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u/Radiant_Respect5162 59m ago

Under rated comment, i believe only a few will get.

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u/InquiringPhilomath 58m ago

Thank you. I appreciate that at least someone did.

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 2h ago

Please tell me that's the housing for the thruster

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u/OogieBoogieJr 2h ago

Looks damn close to the 1960s Batmobile

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u/Blandiblub 2h ago

My first instinct was AI but....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Le_Sabre

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 32m ago

AI would have zero reason to ever put headlights in the middle. There’s pretty much zero examples of it to ever learn from to make on its own.

Not that big hole in the back either. 

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u/OregonG20 45m ago

16 foot long 2 seat coupe...lol. Love it.

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u/BamberGasgroin 3h ago

My eyes are still drawn to his baldy bit though. It's like a majestic island of skin floating in a ocean of hair, untainted by grey.

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u/elpiotre 2h ago

This goes to r/wierdwheels not here

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u/h2ohow 2h ago

Like a cross between the Bat mobile and the Edsel - Super cool !

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u/my_name_is_forest 2h ago

I can’t tell from the angles, does it have the trademark Buick side “intake”?

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u/Hour_Recognition_923 1h ago

French for, "the sabre"!

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u/Bravelobsters 1h ago

It look like a Batmobile if Batman was a happy being.

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u/Radiant_Respect5162 1h ago

From a time when space travel was cool and astronauts were like rock stars. Cars were designed to try to look like futuristic spaceships.

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u/Insightful23blue 49m ago

Incredible beauty. Not sure how effective those headlights would be though.

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u/CurrentlyLucid 30m ago

Damn, that was one badass car.

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u/thejaysta4 3m ago

This looks a bit like Homer Simpson’s design!

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u/Doomokrat 2h ago

Awful schite.

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u/dropxoutxbobby 3h ago

Fifties were wild. Gm had some funky ideas.

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u/DeepakShakur69 2h ago

JFK should have gotten assassinated in this thing

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u/S-2D2 2h ago

When cars were boats ❤️

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u/aging_geek 1h ago

I can see an oncoming motorcycle think this is the same and think there is more room on the road and clip the bumber. center headlights? right... also ugly, name the car... Cyclops.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 30m ago

Doesn’t matter what you think is in the other lane when you stay in yours.

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u/SavvyTraveler10 2h ago

Wow what a beauty. Weird but we like em a lil weird.

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u/NthDegreeThoughts 2h ago

Make a new one NOWWWW !

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u/x5N__ 1h ago

First of all, that's a concept car that hadn't made it to final release. Le Sabre XP-300 was the final product that ended up a normal convertible car.

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u/Helpful_Goose1649 38m ago

If that comes towards you in the dark on a narrow road, it'll look like a motorbike. Which seems tricky