Greatest Automobile Design These Cars Never Made it into the
Showroom
1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt Last of the
Art Deco Designs
The curves on the 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt were inspired
by streamliner trains. The car was among the first to have power
windows -- Chrysler used hydraulic motors to move them. The fully
retractable hardtop and button-operated pop-open headlights were
also seminal design features that showed up in cars decades later.
It was one of the last Art Deco designs before concepts leaned
towards futuristic aesthetics.