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freebeard · 08-14-2023, 04:02 PM

In case you thought the Tesla Semi form factor was something new, The 1934 GM Streamliner :

https://preview.redd.it/u89q43yc5wq11.jpg

https://external-content.duckduckgo....881&ipo=images

In 1940 GM added the Aer-O-Dome:

https://natmus.org/53pop/53aerodome

By the 1960s those tediously assembled and dis-assembled aluminum ribs would be air-inflated.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,557 Thanks: 8,092 Thanked 8,883 Times in 7,330 Posts	In case you thought the Tesla Semi form factor was something new, The 1934 GM Streamliner : https://preview.redd.it/u89q43yc5wq11.jpg https://external-content.duckduckgo....881&ipo=images In 1940 GM added the Aer-O-Dome: https://natmus.org/53pop/53aerodome By the 1960s those tediously assembled and dis-assembled aluminum ribs would be air-inflated. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar --You can't say that is a coincidence.