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Aktungbby · 01-28-22, 08:09 PM

it is!

Jimbuna · 01-29-22, 08:14 AM

Is it an actual car?

Aktungbby · 01-29-22, 10:37 AM

That is a fair question that I"ve been looking at again. I don't think mine is a photoshopped job...

There are real renditions of this original vehicle. 3 prototypes of which were made. One crashed; one; burned; and the remaining only one is in a museum and occasionally makes it to Concours D' Elegance shows. It was initially displayed at the Chicago 1934 World Fair...and a famous architect who helped with the wind tunnel and design was in a Japanese internment camp in WWII. On some variations the fin is the rear 8 cylinder ford engine's exhaust outlet...well aft of the front-wheel drive.

Catfish · 01-29-22, 10:52 AM

Dymaxion. I wonder whether anyone ever really thought of jet stilts on that car :/

Aktungbby · 01-29-22, 11:14 AM

that's it!

Designed by Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame; several "dome-homes" in the Santa Cruz Mtns were appraised by me during my real-estate appraiser 14 year career ...Over to Catfish

Jimbuna · 01-29-22, 11:19 AM

Certainly looks like it Kai

mapuc · 01-29-22, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

that's it!

Designed by Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame; several "dome-homes" in the Santa Cruz Mtns were appraised by me during my real-estate appraiser 14 year career ...Over to Catfish

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Have an old friend from Sweden who live in Santa Cruz.
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Markus

Buddahaid · 01-29-22, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Certainly looks like it Kai

That's so Buck Rogers. Where do the sparks come out?

Aktungbby · 01-29-22, 01:58 PM

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That's so Buck Rogers. Where do the sparks come out?

at the Burning Man festival??!!

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Dymaxion. I wonder whether anyone ever really thought of jet stilts on that car :/

It was the reference to the jet stilts that caused me to select this image with the rear 'jet stilt ; but i still can't tell if its real...but imho that wouldn't really affect the puzzle solving'

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Because he was aiming for what Fuller called Omni Medium Transport, a vehicle that could go anywhere, the Dymaxion would ultimately have "wheels for ground travel and jet stilts for instant takeoff and flight." Jet stilts were Fuller's placeholder idea for a future technology that could provide compact, concentrated lift – twenty years before the commercial availability of jets. o his daughter, Allegra, he described the Dymaxion as:A "zoomobile", explaining that it could hop off the road at will, fly about, then, as deftly as a bird, settle back into a place in traffic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car

Catfish · 01-29-22, 02:32 PM

^ ok.. just this "take off" got me wondering

Ok, what is this:

Jimbuna · 01-29-22, 02:43 PM

A religious connection?

Catfish · 01-29-22, 02:58 PM

Not religious

mapuc · 01-29-22, 03:08 PM

A castle ?

Markus

Catfish · 01-29-22, 03:10 PM

Not a castle

mapuc · 01-29-22, 03:24 PM

Is this building famous ?

Markus

01-28-22, 08:09 PM	#19981
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,947 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	it is! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-29-22, 08:14 AM	#19982
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Is it an actual car? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-29-22, 10:37 AM	#19983
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,947 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	That is a fair question that I"ve been looking at again. I don't think mine is a photoshopped job... There are real renditions of this original vehicle. 3 prototypes of which were made. One crashed; one; burned; and the remaining only one is in a museum and occasionally makes it to Concours D' Elegance shows. It was initially displayed at the Chicago 1934 World Fair...and a famous architect who helped with the wind tunnel and design was in a Japanese internment camp in WWII. On some variations the fin is the rear 8 cylinder ford engine's exhaust outlet...well aft of the front-wheel drive. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 01-29-22 at 10:51 AM.

01-29-22, 10:52 AM	#19984
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,903 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Dymaxion. I wonder whether anyone ever really thought of jet stilts on that car :/ __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-29-22, 11:14 AM	#19985
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,947 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	that's it! Designed by Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame; several "dome-homes" in the Santa Cruz Mtns were appraised by me during my real-estate appraiser 14 year career ...Over to Catfish __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-29-22, 11:19 AM	#19986
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Certainly looks like it Kai __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-29-22, 02:32 PM	#19990
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,903 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ ok.. just this "take off" got me wondering Ok, what is this: __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-29-22, 02:43 PM	#19991
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A religious connection? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-29-22, 02:58 PM	#19992
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,903 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Not religious __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-29-22, 03:08 PM	#19993
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 18,050 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	A castle ? Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

01-29-22, 03:10 PM	#19994
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,903 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Not a castle __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-29-22, 03:24 PM	#19995
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 18,050 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Is this building famous ? Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat