"The World's Most Modern Car!" and the Future is 1960!... [PIC]

Oddly, some of my oldest car models have survived in my possession for a good 70 years. These 4 still give me a smile. The Nash Airflyte Rambler is kind of unusual in that it is friction motor powered although the mild "warp factor" has jammed the flywheel against the rear window. Also, all the trim parts are actually metal including the headlamps. As a little kid, I was fascinated with what I thought were futuristic car designs (I thought the '54-'55 Kaiser Manhattan was space age stuff". My father's "Popular Mechanics" were always projecting what future transportation would look like in the next decade. Mattel came out with their XP-1960 "The Sport Car of the Future" friction powered cars and I got them in the two colors you see. These models had stamped metal chassis that was curled to also form the front and rear bumpers. That rigidity seems to have prevented warping and also served as a mount for the motor. The "chrome" trim is a metal foil tape that has miraculously survived along with one box. At the same time, Mattel did another friction 'future' model, slightly larger in scale, with a bubble top and the trim is real metal. I would date these cars somewhere around '54-'56.