After reading the above, I had another look at the pic. Although similar to mid/late '5o's GM and Ford, it's not an "exact prediction". For example there's no dog leg in the door/A pillar. Surely if that superior design was known when this car was built, it would have been used. Wrap around windscreens would be a natural idea for an inovator wanting to build a streemlined car. It's possible that a clever guy worked it out before WW2 mass production perfected it.
Geoffrey has requested a 3d model so he can visualize the car as it will look after restored. If allowed i will post the renders in this thread.
How do I get a hold of the guy that has the tear drop car. If it's the 1936 Arrowhead car it is the one my Grandfather designed.
Boing... this thread just popped up out of the blue? Any progress on the old car? Pix? If you are interested I was at SIU Carbondale back in the early / mid-70s studying artsy-fartsy photography and Bucky was the big cheese around town. He was very good for the schools recruitment as "Car-bondo-lay" was mostly known as a party school because it was home for all the idiot kids that couldn't get into the other state schools. But Bucky worked mostly at the Edwardsville campus. Still.. I rode my bike to photography class down the street where his first dome was built. Cool to see it every day. I also saw him speak one time in DesMoines years earlier. Clever guy to say the least, but he was an idea guy, not a fabricator or a machinist. Gary
Is this a similar one,or is it this? Found in a Youtube movie , 0:28 out in movie :http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfagtj-pRs
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