Friction-drive toy by Marx, based on GM styling chief Harley Earl's custom-built Lesabre.

Mattel XP-1960 Dream Car's boxtop boasted that it was "the car you will be driving tomorrow."

Rubberband-powered kit was one of a serious of fantasy designs by Hawk.

Loosely based on Buick's 1953 XP-300 concept, X-91 is controlled by hard-wired handset.

Mattel Dream Car with removable top and friction motor. Produced in "four futuristic colors."

Box for Mattel toy above boasts of exciting features like a "bomber bubble" top.

Cast metal toy predicts massive luggage capacity for tomorrow's motorists.

Pontiac's 1956 Club De Mer was skinned with brushed stainless steel thirty years before the Delorean boasted this feature.

Revell kit of Lincoln's fabulous Futura was originally produced in 1956. Color mimics real car's fish scale paint.

Kansas customizer Darryl Starbird built his Predicta from a wrecked Thunderbird. Monogram's kit was re-released over four decades.