In the retrofuture, go-karts will save the world: AMC’s 1968 Amitron electric car

AMC’s 1968 Amitron prototype — an electric go-kart with inflatable plastic seats that promised a puttering, green-friendly jet age of “miniskirts, go-go boots and a sexy battery pack” — was probably not as viable an alternative to the primordial ooze slurpers of the day as the press materials made it sound: the two-hundred nickel-cadmium / lithium-nickel-fluoride dual battery pack claimed a 150 mile range with a top speed of 50 mph. But its retro-futuristic design is simply adorable, like the puttering roadster a black-crystaled Logan might drive on Lastday to his local Sleepshop.

AMC’s Amazing Amitron Electric Car [Retrothing]

Image: Retro-Thing

1. [Not a Doktor]

   those wheels are Liefeld’ed

2. [Halloween Jack]

   Looks more like a concept for the Pacer than anything else.

3. [w000t]

   Or maybe a concept submarine Pacer. I like.

4. [toxonix]

   It appears to have a broken rear axle.

5. [OM]

   …Damn thing sorta reminds me of a boxy version of the command module for the AMTronic:

   http://www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/amtronic.html