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Can You Identify These Car Parts?

Posted September 30, 2009 12:01 PM by dstrohl

We talked recently with Phil King over at Crosthwaite and Gardiner, one of England's most renowned restoration houses, and found out that they'd not only been entrusted with the restoration of Dymaxion No. 2, the only known surviving iteration of Buckminster Fuller's streamlined automobile dream, but they'd also been tasked with the re-creation of Dymaxion No. 3, a car last seen in the 1950s.

But they'll have a harder time of it without your help: They still need to identify and source a few parts on the Dymaxion, among them the external door handles, the turn signal indicators and the ignition switch. Click the link below to take a gander at them and see if they look familiar.

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09/30/2009 6:02 PM

Sure does look like a Volkwagen bus doesn't it.

Historical thing.

According to my study, one big flaw was tires of the day, that were more prone to blowouts than modern tires.

What was the Dymaxion engine?

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09/30/2009 10:43 PM

YES I did! Didn't read the text, but first guess was a Dymaxion shell. Good old Bucky!

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12/19/2009 4:24 AM

it's written in the post, it says Dymaxion No. 2 but looks different here.

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