Another Alero concept?

[TheEdgeofSanity]

ok... well, I was digging through our basement looking for my mom's thanksgiving decorations when I found this poster.... my dad used to work in the GM woodshop and used to bring home alot of posters that he'd get and stuff but he doesn't remember where or when he got this one...

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4631/aleroho2.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5505/alero2cs1.jpg

I really like the way the exhaust in in the rear bumper....anyway, sorry for the bad image quality -- my digital camera is effed up badly.

otherwise, enjoy! :yahoo:

[cavaliers60]

resize the pics please.....

[[ion] C2]

the alero alpha, lots of pictures on google

[TheEdgeofSanity]

resize the pics please.....

fixed

[cavaliers60]

I never saw the back of that concept... really nice.

[[ion] C2]

i'd like to have those wheels

[pawzbear]

wanna sell me the poster? ;) lol jp

[cherrington17]

we need a page of JUST alero concept pages...

its a really hott looking concept, but i'm getting really tired of newbs finding these pics and thinking its new material.

although, it is sweet your dad was given a poster of that.

[AJules]

wow, nice

so smooth

I never really liked the front, but the back is really nice

[jayson_waltz]

thats my faviorite concept, i've seen it many times.
Front view btw,
http://encyclopedia.classicoldsmobile.com/concept/alero.jpg

[CharleyO99Alero]

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Too bad that concept was never to see production! :(


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[cavaliers60]

Too bad GM is stupid....

[TheEdgeofSanity]

we need a page of JUST alero concept pages...

its a really hott looking concept, but i'm getting really tired of newbs finding these pics and thinking its new material.

although, it is sweet your dad was given a poster of that.

i figured that somebody already knew about it... i was just surprised that I found a poster of it in my basement... i did a google search and there were no pictures of the back of this car anyway, so i guess this may be a first rear shot of the alpha...

[lonnie]

They call it an Alero but looks more like in Intruige(sp)

[Jferg2223]

i wonder what gm did with that car? and the osv

[TheEdgeofSanity]

i wonder what gm did with that car? and the osv

they crush them or put them into storage. i doubt the alero alpha car is around since it was really only a mock-up shell of a car. I heard that one of the 2 OSV's are in storage somewhere and that the green one was crushed. :(

[TheEdgeofSanity]

just did a little research.... found this website for the alero alpha.

http://encyclopedia.classicoldsmobile.com/concept/alero.html

turns out, if GM had kept some of the nice features, our alero's would have had a removable glass roof, keyless entry, navigation system, and numerous high tech gadgets that would be state-of-the-art in even today's standards. Shame on GM for going cheap on us. with a car like that, Oldsmobile may have had a fighting chance.

Interior:
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6004/alphainteriorcd4.jpg

[Oldsnut]

they crush them or put them into storage. i doubt the alero alpha car is around since it was really only a mock-up shell of a car. I heard that one of the 2 OSV's are in storage somewhere and that the green one was crushed. :(
Alpha go bye bye and only 1 of the 3 OSV's remains in storage. There were 2 red one and a green one.

[hok666]

Alpha go bye bye and only 1 of the 3 OSV's remains in storage. There were 2 red one and a green one.

I take it one of the red ones made it to storage? Where at? I actually saw the red one in person at the 04' homecoming. All I can say is nice... I also gots many pics:cool: . I even seen the OSV Intrigue I got some decent pics of the interior and engine compartmment at the R.E.Olds museum in Lansing. I could post'em this week sometime, and I have pics of other olds cars that got crushed to probably. I even got pics of the zebra alero car. Anyway if interested let me know.

[Oldsnut]

I take it one of the red ones made it to storage? Where at? I actually saw the red one in person at the 04' homecoming. All I can say is nice... I also gots many pics:cool: . I even seen the OSV Intrigue I got some decent pics of the interior and engine compartmment at the R.E.Olds museum in Lansing. I could post'em this week sometime, and I have pics of other olds cars that got crushed to probably. I even got pics of the zebra alero car. Anyway if interested let me know.

I wouldn't mind if you posted the Intrigue OSV pics, I've only seen the ones on the internet to date. The Zebra Alero was next to our group at Olds Homecoming this year.

[hok666]

I wouldn't mind if you posted the Intrigue OSV pics, I've only seen the ones on the internet to date. The Zebra Alero was next to our group at Olds Homecoming this year.

PM me on the where and how-to post the pics. I could have them up in a few days. Quality kinda sucks, being in the museum and all.

[Whitetigerboi83]

too much on the steering wheel for me its bad enough our cruise controls are in little pods... but i love my car :-)

[cherrington17]

how hilarious would it be if someone paid a production company to rebuild one of these concept cars that GM destroyed. :lol: obviously its a shait load of money, but just the idea of rolling into a car show with a long since deal concept would be hilarious.

[jackal2000]

how hilarious would it be if someone paid a production company to rebuild one of these concept cars that GM destroyed. :lol: obviously its a shait load of money, but just the idea of rolling into a car show with a long since deal concept would be hilarious.

it would be funny until the lawsuit.

[Oldsnut]

it would be funny until the lawsuit.
Why? Most of them weren't copyrighted. As far as GM is concerned, they didn't exist.

[jackal2000]

Why? Most of them weren't copyrighted. As far as GM is concerned, they didn't exist.

so lets say mitsubishi "steals" the design and puts the alpha into production exactly as is. you're telling me that GM would not get all butt hurt over it? as competitive as the auto industry is i cant buy into that idea. it seems to me that anything with the olds logo on it as a whole is in some way shape or form copyrighted.

[Oldsnut]

Aurora was not conceived by GM, but by Ford, early 60's Ford Aurora station wagon as example. Hell, GM could sue each division of their own company for copyright infringement. Aurora is not copyrighted as far as I can find.

[jackal2000]

copyrights dont last forever, i think its only 20 years or something so thats a bad example lol

[jackal2000]

Hell, GM could sue each division of their own company for copyright infringement.

thats like the coke commercial where they want to sue coke zero :lol:

[Oldsnut]

copyrights dont last forever, i think its only 20 years or something so thats a bad example lol
Neither was copyrighted by GM or Ford. Try again.

[jackal2000]

guess im stopping by a stealership in the morning to get to the bottom of this.

[jackal2000]

maybe copyright is the wrong term. perhaps trade mark and intellectual property fit in somewhere. in any case, my little brain hurts from trying to make sense of this.


andy, remind me to choke you out at ASS for being a PITA. LOL

[cherrington17]

even if its "copywrited" (or another legal form of it) who said they needs to directly copy it?

drug companies do it all the time (even though their patents only last 7 or 8 years) but you can put a slightly different part, or angle on something and make it different enough to pass as "not theirs"

if that happened, by whomever, that'd be the biggest f-u to GM, EVER.

[AGT]

even if its "copywrited" (or another legal form of it) who said they needs to directly copy it?

drug companies do it all the time (even though their patents only last 7 or 8 years) but you can put a slightly different part, or angle on something and make it different enough to pass as "not theirs"

if that happened, by whomever, that'd be the biggest f-u to GM, EVER.


Make it have double post mirrors haha :lol:

[Cliff8928]

Aurora was not conceived by GM, but by Ford, early 60's Ford Aurora station wagon as example. Hell, GM could sue each division of their own company for copyright infringement. Aurora is not copyrighted as far as I can find.

However the name "Aurora" is trademarked by Hankook tire.