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  1. David Kipling
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    It was Basil Oldfield 1962 oldfil.jpg posed in the early Sixties alongside a logging truck that the owner, Basil Oldfield, had designed, in BC, Canada.
     
  2. 302GMC
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    Dymaxion ... Bucky Fuller creation.

    Never mind - Not a Dymaxion

    Maybe it's the McQuay - Norris test outfit ....

    My Special Interest Autos mags are locked in the basement for the winter.
     
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  3. squirrel
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    Nope...similar, but different.

    This is the Dymaxion.

    Dynamixion_car_by_Buckminster_Fuller_1933_(side_views).jpg
     
  4. David Kipling
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    Thank you --- I knew I had seen the shape before, but did not know the name.
     
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  5. David Kipling
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    So, if the photo was taken in circa 1965, the logging engineer evidently knew and appreciated its special status --- thirty+ years on. Thanks.
     
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  6. David Kipling
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    Pause for reflection --- google tells me that only THREE Dymaxions were built --- is that true, and how did this version find its way to Vancouver Island in 1965?
     
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    Your info very much appreciated --- the Dymaxion and the McQuay-Norris have fallen by the wayside. Oldfield managed to create a 150-ft long logging truck with a V16 that hauled up to 200 tons of logs at a timed --- so this car would have been old.jpg well within his capabilities.
     
  9. alchemy
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    miller_goldensub_15.jpg

    I prefer this teardrop shape of Oldfield's.
     
  10. DDDenny
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    Dan Webb version.

    upload_2024-1-11_13-35-37.png
     
  11. 41 GMC K-18
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    I have always appreciated the very cool streamlined, "teardrop" designs, and the egg shaped cars as well.
    The Stout Scarab, and the Dymaxion, were very unique, as well as the Tatra.
    Here is a bit closer inside look at Fullers Dymaxion.
    Bummer, if the rear steering wheel in the Dymaxion went flat, not an easy tire to change.

    Tatra_77.jpg IMG_7864 (2).jpg IMG_7865 (2).jpg $_57.JPG Dymaxion_03_1000.jpg Dymaxion_04_1000.jpg Dymaxion_10_1000.jpg e29.jpg e46.jpg 35 Stout Scarab (2).jpg
     
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  12. spanners
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    I'm not a big fan of the teardrop designs but the log truck ticks all the boxes. I would love to live next door to that bloke watching him tinker with stuff.
     
  13. squirrel
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    It didn't. The car you are talking about is NOT the Dymaxion, it's the Oldfield car, as j hansen shows above.
     
  14. Dave G in Gansevoort
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    Well, there's always this:
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  15. 0NE BAD 51 MERC
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    I have seen a similar vehicle a number of times at back to the 50s in Minnesota. I will probably screw up the spelling, but the name plate said Scarab?? It was a very nicely detailed automobile. Definitely a early 40s to early 50s production.
     
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    The job of driving one around the country is open right now. You get to pass out wiener whistles….
     
  17. Ned Ludd
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    https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/automotive-weirdness.944738/

    I've been saying for a while that someone should write a book about the history of the Rear-Engined Teardrop as a distinct type, design compulsion, erstwhile pervasive future vision, and misguided philosophical tangent, from the Rumplers of the '20s to the Fascinations of the '60s. No, I'm not going to write it.
     
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    First thing I thought of was a customized VW van.
     
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  19. Hey Dave, I was lucky enough to get into a Weiner wagon in 1967. A new Grand Union opened up right next to my High School. I got a part time job there. As a promotion the Weiner wagon came and a little guy was driving it. He was in a white type jump suit if I remember correctly. With a chef type hat. He promoted the Hot dogs inside on a display table and kids could go out in the parking lot and look in the Weiner mobile. That brings back a memory.
     
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    I am thinking that there's a few of these rear engined Teardrops in the Microcar museum in Nashville. One is all wood.
     
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    Stout Scarab, named after the beetle.

    Not quite as teardrop rear as some of the others...

    (edit: this car dates to 1934. Kind of like the Airflow from Chrysler, as far as styling)

    stout.jpg

    1280px-Scarab_OHTM.JPG
     
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    Little Oscar promoting Oscar Meyer Weiners. I remember getting an Oscar Meyer weiner whistle from him.
     
  25. spanners
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    I wonder what those teardrops would perform like in a proper wind tunnel?
     
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  26. I still got my Weiner whistle too from 1967. Guess I have choose to either to will it or the Corvette tomy son. Tough decision.
     
  27. David Kipling
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    Now HERE is a customized VW van in the UK: ment.jpg
     
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  28. Surely you can’t be serious?
     
  29. Ebbsspeed
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    There is a Dymaxion house in the Henry Ford Museum, another of Fullers creations. Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work—prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. Dymaxion, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension; sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input."

    https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/inside/dymaxion-house/
     
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  30. Ned Ludd
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    Beautifully in a headwind. In a crosswind, the likelihood of the centre of aerodynamic pressure being significantly forward of the CG is a huge problem, requiring large tailfins and things to correct.
     

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