At this year’s SEMA show there were lots of pretend muscle cars on display, many of them from the big automakers (Ford, for example, had an excess of 70 vehicles at the show). In reality these were ordinary production vehicles overly accessorised with go-faster stripe stickers, oversized alloy wheels and garish stick-on plastic bodykits. Real muscle cars do not exist anymore – except in the minds of designers that is.
Sabino Leerentveld is a young Dutch industrial designer who, like most designers, ofttimes enjoys experimenting and playing with conceptual designs in his downtime.
As an unapologetic hyper-muscle car design, his Shelby Coupe concept bears many of the hallmarks that you would expect on a typical Shelby-tuned Mustang or Dodge.
But Sabino tells us that the car’s styling actually evolved without any kind of focus on aesthetic refinement. Instead, he deliberately pursued a vision of something really old school, with fat tires, and exaggerated if not extreme muscularity. Precisely the same approach as your average SEMA entrant then, only with a far more successful end product.
Although this particular project initially started life as a mere exercise in CAD surface modelling, the end result is a full-blown tribute to Carroll Shelby-esque muscle cars – and a design that the likes of Ford and Chrysler, as overtly corporatised bodies, simply would not have the courage or audacity to produce (even as a one-off SEMA-type showcar).
So, rather sadly, concepts such as Sabino’s Shelby Coupe continue to exist only in the digital realm.
Source: autoconception.com
MUSCLE CAR CONCEPT: SHELBY COUPE
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