We were so tickled by the NFZ W43 rendering by 600V that we ran yesterday that we thought we’d dig a little deeper into his series of 3D-rendered genre-busting and wholly imaginative vehicles to see what else plied the highways in his alternative universe. We came away impressed at his blending of retro-Soviet vehicle design, 1950s futuristic American concept car design, and blatant disregard for utility or design for production. One comes away from the designs feeling as though 600V peered into a world where the Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic tack-up/mash-up vehicles suddenly became domestic suburban cruisers. It’s awesome. Let’s play spot-the-influences here, shall we?
First off, the pre-NFZ-series Zombie Hunter above, which looks like a streamlined beer truck of the 1930s turned into a 1950s motorhome, a la the ShamRockAway.
Next, another pre-NFZ-series land cruiser called the Blue Arrow, which looks like a 1950s fiberglass cabin cruiser boat dropped on a 1930s GMC COE chassis.
The NFZ W36 clearly took its inspiration from Ford’s Seattle-ite XXI.
Ever wondered what the LeSabre concept car would have looked like if put in a blender with Die Silberpfeile German racing cars? The NFZ W29 appears to answer that.
The NFZ W2 was definitely a take on the Phantom Corsair.
If bat-villain Bane (or Hannibal Lecter) drove a 1956 Chevrolet, the NFZ W1 would be it.
Need to suppress a riot? Need the massiveness of a Mack truck? Need the art-deco-slash-streamline-moderne style of, say, a boattail Auburn? You need the NFZ W11, a much more elegant Herkimer Battle Jitney.
Also confusingly labeled NFZ W11, this crew-cab pickup appears to be a Tatra-influenced Outback ute for the Australian Space Agency.
Station wagons should figure into any retrofuturistic automotive survey. And based on the NFZ W12, so, apparently, should Baja pre-runners.
Perhaps one of the least out-there designs among 600V’s is the NFZ W37, a sleek muscle car with equal parts Dodge Charger and Ford Mustang.
Finally (though there are plenty more where these came from), the NFZ W24, an Acura NSX that rear-ended a Packard Clipper. Anybody who builds any of these in real life wins.
