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late '20s-early 1930s car designed to look like airplane
Need help identifying photo of an actual car (from late 1920s - early
'30s?), which looks something like a wing-less airplane -- extremely futuristic for the time and two-toned. It might have been associated with the introduction of Associated Aviation Ethyl gasoline. The big city (San Francisco?) gas station, where it is being filled, features clock-faced gasoline pumps topped with globes. The Flying A has bird-like wings, and gas is 14¢/ gallon. The gas is being pumped into this car through a nearly triangular flip-up opening that looks about a good 12 inches per side of 'triangle'- this flap is on same level as the windows of this bizarre car. The photo shows the car from the side, and it is almost a smooth arc in design, from front to back. The windows are three (separated) in front and four along the sides, if you count the flip up gas space as a "window". These 'windows' are rounded in the corners. It is hard to tell, but there may be an additional window arc cut into the roof above the central front window, giving more of a sense of a 'cockpit' look? There is one door, despite the long length of the car. It almost looks as if there is only one exterior hinge on the door. The front and back of the vehicle appear to be white and the white color frames the windows--this arc of white emphasizes the overall arc profile of the car. There is a single bent arc of a front metal bumper and there is a long strip of chrome(?) running from over frton wheel to over the back wheel. No logo or name visible on side of car. I can't see the back end of the car due to two men standing there. (One is my grandfather.) There are two flap like vents beneath the central front window. These small flaps are raised in the photo. Across the street is a Shell station with a 'normal'-looking 1920s car. Can anyone help with the ID of this car ? -- or the date when Associated Aviation Ethyl was introduced at Flying A stations? Thank you, Bonnie |
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On 20 Aug 2004 02:53:45 -0700, wrote:
>Need help identifying photo of an actual car (from late 1920s - early >'30s?), which looks something like a wing-less airplane -- extremely >futuristic for the time and two-toned... > ============================== Does it look like one of the cars shown at http://www.3wheelers.com/dymaxion.html ? Joe -- Heather & Joe Way Sierra Specialty Automotive Brake cylinders sleeved with brass Gus Wilson Stories http://www.brakecylinder.com |
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