Bulgemobile - The greatest car make never to exist!

[Cartman]

Anyone ever heard of this? It was a series of satirical comic drawings of ridiculous cars by an artist called Bruce McCall, the 58 was the biggest car in the world, it sat 10 people abreast on its huge bench seats, the estate was called the Firewood super dome, unfortunately the firm went bust due to its death trap muscle car called the 68 Manic!

There is a compilation book of his drawings called Zany Afternoons, which also includes strange aircraft.

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

That's a new one on me Carty, sounds interesting!

[Cartman]

I think the fake adverts were done sometime in the early 70s in Mad magazine, the 1958 Bulgemobile seemed to be based on the 1958 Oldsmobile, which wasn't a million miles from it

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

Ah yes I just googled Bulgemobile and the purple car was familiar as it was used as the title card for a Youtuber I follow who does American car history and for a video on fictional fantasy cars he made with computer software himself recently. They were hybrids between 2 makes or if a rival US car maker had made certain "flops" or distinctive cars if the real original firm didn't make them. E.G If General Motos had made an Edsel. A couple of other pics came up on Google like the Firewood station wagon and the "Bossmobile".

[Cartman]

The artist also did some made up planes, one he called the Humbly Pudge Gallipoli heavy ish bomber, it was based on the Handley Page Hampden, which was a not particularly successful 1930s RAF plane. Apparently one McCall fan is also into RC model planes, and he made a flying model of it, and it actually does work and fly!

Another one is a Russian one with railway loco wheels to land on, to save on rubber tyres and the nose is bent downwards, because someone in the design bureau dropped a scale model on the floor, bending it, and as damage to state property in Stalin's Russia resulted in the death sentence, the guy said it was designed that way!

I haven't found the dangerous 68 muscle car yet