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12/10/2025 11:54 am
.Buckminster Fuller, architect, engineer, futurist and non-conformist, with design help from a Japanese sculptor, designed and built this ultra light weight "Dynamaxion" 'Streamline Transport' employing his geodesic dome concept of self bracing triangles. This 3-wheeled vehicle employed a rear mounted Ford V8 to drive the 2 front wheels while the rear wheel steered offering almost a zero turning radius. It comfortably seated 11 passengers, capable of of 120 mph and 30 mpg. He was promised generous funding for production, but in 1933 as he was applying for a patent, there was a road accident resulting in a fatality and the potential investors pulled out. Although investigators found that it was a car full of tourists that swerved into its lane that caused the crash, the initial notoriety killed the project.
Well, maybe they will:
12/10/2025 12:38 pm
Crazy cool ... I guess. I can't imagine all that weight (11 passengers ) on just THREE wheels, but OK - it seem to work. Awesome looking model and pics Rich.
12/10/2025 1:32 pm
Jeff Lane had a 1933 replica made (of #1)! There were a total of 3 designed and made by Buckminster Fuller... We saw it the other week after the Rally, but did not take a photo... Here are two from their website and one from Autoweek:
This post was modified 7 months ago by Karl Schnelle
12/10/2025 3:48 pm
Here are my Lane pics, the first being a model of the Dymaxion chassis. And as you might expect, I have the Bizarre model too.
12/10/2025 3:54 pm
That is a cool model, is it an Autocult? I know I considered one a few years or so ago, but eventually passed because it was kind of outside my collecting range, looking at your amazing photos makes me sorry I did.
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
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12/10/2025 6:20 pm
@jcarnutz It's by Bizarre. It's one of the reasons I collect 1/43s. Interesting stuff you'll never see in another scale.
