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Jack-Lee -- For why? Also [Citation needed].

Old Tele man -- Colani's inspiration was the Water Strider. The rake and asymmetrical airfoil was for traction on the salt. But the Human Powered Vehicles settled on the same solution, don't even try to keep the air out—compress and decompress it smoothly and put spats on the wheels.

Colani did it in the 70s. I've been thinking of a Schwimmwagen body with a Class 5 offroad stance, if you know what I mean. And a blown Lexan bubble top Ed Roth top. And a single trolling rod antenna with three little Jetson disks on it.

You could do that front suspension with a tube axle and hair-pins. Invert the axle so it's up in stagnant air and clip that U-shaped fender to the hair-pins. They would pivot at the bottom of the windshield.