Yeah it was a new addition to the Mercedes Museum, the last time I was there. Not sure where they'd been hiding it, or if it was a recent aquisition.
The Meteor Built in late 30's for dry lakes, street driven in 40's (hidden headlights), see article in issue #10 of Rod&Kulture and others.
Great subject from my point of view. Below is how I'm dealing with the issue of street-streamliners. Yes a tadpole autocycle.
Welcome Ari. Though I suspect many of us here would want to see your project with little flat-glass windows and covered in flush rivets
Every time I see a belly tank o the bay I wish I still had the health and fabrication skills to tackle doing a street legal one passenger interpretation. I'm surprised someone has not brought up the teardrop cars from the 30s. This Talbot Lago I feel is the most beautiful car ever made...
Here is one that I had found in a back yard in Southfield Michigan. It is pictured in a previous post restored. 1937 Adler Rennlimousine Lemans Competition Coupe. I don't know what the numbers are on the design, but it looks pretty slippery.
This is one I own now. It is a 1931 Pierce Arrow land speed car. If I can get this one restored I would like to drive it on the street and return it to Daytona Beach.
Looks like you've got the bodywork done. There is thread just on that car here somewhere. Hope to see it completed.
The image I posted in November 2015 seems to have disappeared. No matter, here is another, posted on FB today: (I image-searched for a non-FB web address, so hopefully this one won't disappear quite as quickly.) It raises all kinds of possibilities. The above approach was used on a lot of factory speed record attempts in the era after WWII. I think also of the Peugeot 404 diesel record car of 1965: The practicality of the single-seat arrangement is, of course, an issue in a street-driven car. But what about a '50s American convertible with tandem seating on one side only, an integrated rigid tonneau cover like the ones in these pics, all kinds of aerodynamic detail tweaks, and something like a Messerschmitt microcar canopy?
Interesting coachwork on a 6-cylinder Alfa-Romeo, done in either 1930 or 1932 by one Joachim Kusters in Brazil: https://blog.hemmings.com/?s=argentina+hearse http://www.allcarindex.com/main-index/car-make-details/Brazil-Kusters/
Grandaddy of them all, the Golden Submarine built by Harry Miller for Barney Oldfield in 1917. No glass in the windows just black wire mesh. Oldfield said he could smoke a cigar inside at 100 MPH.
This was a fun thread to look through. Now I want to make a streamlined car. I'll add it to my long list of project ideas.
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