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Dezeen Mail issue 321 features this week's best stories and discussions
The world's longest glass bridge, our roundup of the best Minimalist rebrands and a teepee-shaped home with a spiral pool (pictured) feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail.
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Pontiac GTO
The GTO rolled into 1970 with some exterior changes that included a redesigned nose (which ended the run of the GTO’s optional concealed headlamps), a redesigned rear that incorporated the taillights into the bumper, and reworked body panels that had sharp creases pressed into the front fenders, the quarter panels as well as the leading edge of the door.
Pontiac’s 350-hp, 400-cu.in. V-8 was standard issue, but the deep-breathing Ram-Air III package upped the ante to 366 hp, while the Ram Air IV belted out 370 hp. The 455 was available for the first time in the 1970 GTO as well. With 10.25 compression, the biggest-displacement Pontiac effortlessly made 360 hp and 500-lb.ft of torque.
A Muncie three-speed was the base transmission, but GTO buyers could opt for a close-ratio Muncie M21 four-speed manual, a wide-ratio M20 gear box, or a Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 three-speed automatic.
Of the approximately 40,000 GTOs that Pontiac built in 1970, fewer than 10 percent were convertibles. About half of those were equipped, like this example currently for sale on Hemmings.com, with an automatic transmission and the base 400.
From the seller’s description:
1970 GTO convertible, numbers matching, 400, automatic, posi, gauges, hood tach, rear spoiler, wood wheel, good top, new brakes and suspension, black with sandalwood interior, Rallye wheels
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U2 fan attempting to gather all the ZooTV Trabants for band’s anniversary
Photos courtesy Tim Cunningham.
They flew. They lit up the darkness. They did not, however – could not, in fact – drive under their own power, yet they remain some of the world’s best-known Trabants (and art cars), and this fall one U2 fan hopes to gather all of the remaining East German Duroplast machines that served as fixtures for the band’s ZooTV concert tour.
“I’m a U2 fan, and for years I tried to find a way to combine my two hobbies,” said Tim Cunningham, who also owns a Ford Model A. “I did that through collecting U2 related license plates, [but] there was another way to merge my car and music though and it comes in the form of East German Trabants.”
Cheap cars built in socialist East Germany might seem an odd choice for a band from Dublin, but the band members connected with the cars – partly as a political and artistic statement, partly because of their surroundings – after traveling to Berlin in October 1990, just as West and East Germany reunited, to begin recording their album Achtung Baby.
“The band noticed that people from the East would drive their Trabants across the border until they crapped out and they would just abandon them on the side of the road, knowing better options were ahead,” Cunningham said.
Built from 1958 to 1991 in Zwickau by Sachsenring, the Trabant got its motivation from an 18-hp, two-stroke two-cylinder engine driving the front wheels. It only changed incrementally over its production run, during which about three million cars were produced. Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Trabant had become more a symbol than a mode of transportation, largely representing the failures of communism.
Peter Williams, set director for the ZooTV concert tour that followed, promoting Achtung Baby, then decided to incorporate even more wildly painted Trabants into the tour, most as suspended lighting fixtures and one with thousands of mirrors pasted to it as a DJ booth. All had their drivetrains removed and their glass replaced with aluminum panels. According to a 1992 Autoweek article, many of the Trabants received nicknames: Kermit for the green one, Snowy for the white one, Fisher King for the one painted to invoke the movie of the same name, Weekly World News for the one painted with newstype, Junior for the one with a Keith Haring-painted baby, and Liberace for the glitter-ball one. Catherine Owens, who painted some of the Trabants, said “they just became, sort of, the lucky charms for the tour.”
Junior.
In all, according to Cunningham, the band bought as many as 18 for the tour and for various promotion of the album. “Some of these cars were re-purposed throughout the tour and repainted and others were discarded when they disintegrated as the Trabants are prone to do,” he said.
But some still survive. Four, including Liberace, hang in the atrium of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland; one each hangs in the Dublin and Berlin Hard Rock Cafes; the pair of music video cars reportedly now reside in the United States and Luxembourg; and Junior was last seen in Texas, Cunningham said.
Oh, and there’s the one Cunningham bought five years ago. Used for 47 shows of the U.S. leg of the ZooTV tour, it was then given away at the end of the tour through an MTV contest. Cunningham said he plans to have his Trabant at the September 24 celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary that will take place at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (another will take place in Dublin), so he’s trying to locate any other remaining ZooTV Trabants for a reunion at that celebration.
Anybody with a ZooTV Trabant who wants to participate, let us know and we’ll pass word on to Cunningham.
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Pontiac GTO
The GTO rolled into 1970 with some exterior changes that included a redesigned nose (which ended the run of the GTO's optional concealed headlamps), a redesigned rear that incorporated the taillights into the bumper, and reworked body panels that had sharp creases pressed into the front fenders, the quarter panels as well as the leading edge of the door.
Pontiac's 350-hp, 400-cu.in. V-8 was standard issue, but the deep-breathing Ram-Air III package upped the ante to 366 hp, while the Ram Air IV belted out 370 hp. The 455 was available for the first time in the 1970 GTO as well. With 10.25 compression, the biggest-displacement Pontiac effortlessly made 360 hp and 500-lb.ft of torque.
A Muncie three-speed was the base transmission, but GTO buyers could opt for a close-ratio Muncie M21 four-speed manual, a wide-ratio M20 gear box, or a Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 three-speed automatic.
Of the approximately 40,000 GTOs that Pontiac built in 1970, fewer than 10 percent were convertibles. About half of those were equipped, like this example currently for sale on Hemmings.com, with an automatic transmission and the base 400.
From the seller's description:
1970 GTO convertible, numbers matching, 400, automatic, posi, gauges, hood tach, rear spoiler, wood wheel, good top, new brakes and suspension, black with sandalwood interior, Rallye wheels
Find more Pontiacs for sale on Hemmings.com.
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