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Old 08-25-2009, 01:06 AM   #5 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Rokeby View Post
...I see faint allusions to my favorite-most commercially unsuccessful car of all times, Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion Car," in its rear end treatment:
Though that general shape of rear end was common in late '40s - early '50s cars. Copied from the Dymaxion, or just a cultural thing like tailfins?
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