{"id":37843,"date":"2014-09-29T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37843"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:28:39","slug":"spirit-seventies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/spirit-seventies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of the Seventies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something strange\u00a0happened\u00a0in the early seventies. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, quite a lot of strange things happened in that part of a weird decade.<\/p>\n

But in the motoring industry \u2013 it just so happened that some of the most creatively imagined, outrageously exploratory car designs emerged in that era \u2013 despite the planet being wracked by an oil crisis \u2013 a heatening cold war \u2013 and a global recession that nearly did for western democracy.<\/p>\n

Still, emerging from the shadows was this strange beast \u2013 known as the Ferrari Studio CR25 Prototipo.<\/p>\n

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It was a design study from longtime Ferrari collabs Pininfarina \u2013 and it featured air brakes \u2013 those flappy things on the rear pillar setup \u2013 as well as four seats and a questionable aesthetic that nevertheless returned a super low drag coefficient.<\/p>\n

It looks like the frut of a decade-long comedown \u2013 and a livener was probably needed to get over all the gloom.<\/p>\n

And we love the marketing schtick.<\/p>\n

The girl is as period correct as the art direction and those wacky rims\u2026 for us this is the Spirit of the Seventies .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t