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Showing posts with label Dymaxion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dymaxion. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Monday, December 27, 2010
Acquired in Washington DC and brought to Charlotte North Carolina
photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927
But a lot more photos of the Dymaxion at http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/pictures.html
Monday, June 7, 2010
What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?
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Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion 
Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would
I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle
A street car used to build artificial reefs
The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm 
The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964
An Autogyro over New York
a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before
looks like El Mirage
What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I thinkFriday, February 12, 2010
I found a cool website, Mega Moto... I think you are going to love the variety and unique things they post there, here's a sample
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:59 PMthe cool tagline of Mega Moto is : Cars, Trains, Motorcycles, Planes, Airships & Other Awesome Modes of Conveyance
A WW1 mobile carrier pigeon coup... yes, that was the best communication technique they had available in the field of battle .
I've posted somehting about this before, and just can't recall what... beyond there was just one that made it through the years and still exists, was a 1920's car but only on 2 wheels, the little buggy wheels are for holding it up at stops
Brockhouse Corgi WW2 camp scooter
1938 Phantom Corsair http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1938-phantom-corsair.html
Volkswagen museum bus... I hope to find out more about this
Jack Conrad's band... wow, very cool!
Not sure yet what scoooter this is... looks slightly like a Salisbury
the photography of Gaston Jacquin 1935
A lamboghini and wonder of beauty, the 1963 350 GTV
Above, 1971 Star Streak motorhome
Above, something called the Stiletto
1955 Packard Request
1955 Flajole Forerunner
1915 Senate Subway Railroad under the nations capitol, Washington DC
1924 Amphibious Fusetti
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, one of two to survive, probably number 3 of the trio Fuller made. One was found in the backyard of a Arizona suburb in the early 70's by a Car Life reader after they did a story on the Dymaxions, by a fan of Fullers interesting cars. It wasn't bought by a collector, though Harrah's buyers tried, a couple college students got money together and then let it be shown in Museums in the US... more on this story in another post.
One cool puller, looks like a trailer truck
Above isn't labeled, but looks like a barn find custom
Above the Helica
Above, the 1948 Davis
1910 Ford on Forest Service patrol
One of the fabulous streamliner beer delivery trucks
Above, the Lincoln Futura that Barris based the Batmobile on
Above is a replica by Andy Saunders of the below concept car, the 1958 Ford X 2000
Go see what else they've got! http://megamoto.tumblr.com/
A WW1 mobile carrier pigeon coup... yes, that was the best communication technique they had available in the field of battle .
I've posted somehting about this before, and just can't recall what... beyond there was just one that made it through the years and still exists, was a 1920's car but only on 2 wheels, the little buggy wheels are for holding it up at stops
Brockhouse Corgi WW2 camp scooter
1938 Phantom Corsair http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1938-phantom-corsair.html
Volkswagen museum bus... I hope to find out more about this
Jack Conrad's band... wow, very cool!
Not sure yet what scoooter this is... looks slightly like a Salisbury
the photography of Gaston Jacquin 1935
A lamboghini and wonder of beauty, the 1963 350 GTV
Above, 1971 Star Streak motorhome
Above, something called the Stiletto
1955 Packard Request
1955 Flajole Forerunner
1915 Senate Subway Railroad under the nations capitol, Washington DC
1924 Amphibious Fusetti
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, one of two to survive, probably number 3 of the trio Fuller made. One was found in the backyard of a Arizona suburb in the early 70's by a Car Life reader after they did a story on the Dymaxions, by a fan of Fullers interesting cars. It wasn't bought by a collector, though Harrah's buyers tried, a couple college students got money together and then let it be shown in Museums in the US... more on this story in another post.
One cool puller, looks like a trailer truck
Above isn't labeled, but looks like a barn find custom
Above the Helica
Above, the 1948 Davis
1910 Ford on Forest Service patrol
One of the fabulous streamliner beer delivery trucks
Above, the Lincoln Futura that Barris based the Batmobile on
Above is a replica by Andy Saunders of the below concept car, the 1958 Ford X 2000
Go see what else they've got! http://megamoto.tumblr.com/Monday, July 7, 2008
A favorite sculptor of mine, Isamu Noguchi, was the first to draw the Dymaxion!
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 7:24 PMThe above video was found at http://meinekleinefabrik.blogspot.com/2010/06/shall-we-motor.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/automobiles/collectibles/15BUCKY.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=login The 1933 Dymaxion, designed by Buckminster Fuller is on exhibition (it started June 26) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. New Yorkers will get to look it over, as it's on loan from the Reno, Nevada National Automobile Museum.The Dymaxion attained 30 mpg, which was unheard of in any car of it's time. It could carry 11 people, was a three wheeler, steered by the rear wheel, and could do a U-turn in its own length, which was about twice as long as a car of it's era at 20ft, and was shown to the world at the Chicago 1933 World's Fair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
For a gallery of it being built and displayed: http://community.livejournal.com/dieselpunk/166227.html
http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/chronology.html
For some interesting inventions, or ideas, by Bucky... see http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/good_guide_r_buckminster_fuller_3_of_6
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