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Old 03-14-2018, 03:23 AM   #108 (permalink)
jcp123
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
The Zeppelin-era cars have the look, but it turns out air is more complicated than was thought.

It's in your new Mercedes:



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Excellent! It's a start at least. If we could get over the stigma, hemp seems more viable than carbon fiber to me, and could be used in a wiiiiiiiiide variety of applications.

I agree the visuals trick the eye - the best of the thirties styling houses were basically just that: stylists who knew how to trick the eye, if not to cheat the wind. Still, I kind of wish stylists took a bit more whimsy from then and from the 50s and at least created some more visually scintillating shapes.
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