Interesting Aerodynamic Cars (Mike Vetter's ETV, also Avion)

[j-c-c]

Not sure if this is already posted:

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by j-c-c

Not sure if this is already posted:

I believe that it's in one of the 'trailer' threads a few years back.
She's a 'beaut'!

[freebeard]

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com: Extraordinary designer of automotive and everything else... Count De Sakhnoffsky. Emphasis on the LaBatt's streamliner

The cab always looked wrong to me, but the Count seemed to like that.

[Piwoslaw]

Originally Posted by kach22i

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-...ures-2790.html

More info on this, please.
Anyone?

[freebeard]

kach22i provided a link to Pelican Parts forum and a specific post. The forum is a melange (Merriam-Webster: a mixture often of incongruous elements). Those pics were bracketed by these:



forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/391522-random-transportation-pictures-2790.html#post12408747
Post number 55,782!

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Piwoslaw

More info on this, please.
Anyone?

You might try a reverse image search on Google.

film
1936
Things To Come
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/deta..._c_0sLMfd_1_29

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Many 1930's era aerodynamic creations.

What blew me away was a 2-3 person dual or mon-railed power plant service sled that looked very much like a hovercraft. It even had a lower part that could have passed for a skirt. Very reminiscent of the "GlideMobile"created by Charles J. Fletcher, 1959 in Sparta, NJ.

[freebeard]

I was rummaging through my albums and ran across this:


Left page, center column, first paragraph: "The replacement Invader GTE body will nearly double the performance of a standard electrified metal-bodied Volkswagen". So I got to wondering what windshield that is.

www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/archive: VW based kit car glass

Here is some useful information, if you own a VW based kit car. Glass/windshield replacement & their doner vehicles: Amante GT-AMC Marlin windshield & back glass with flat side glass...Kelmark GT-Ford Pinto windshield...Laser 917-Opel GT windshield with Laser specific curved plexiglass for the other windows...Bradley GT-1963 to 1967 Chevrolet Corvette windshield Bradley GT specific curved plexiglass for the other windows...Bradley GT2-All glass & windshield is Bradley GT2 specific...Fiberfab Jamaican-1963 to 1967 Chevrolet Corvette windshield with early Porsche 911 back glass...Fiberfab avenger/Valkyrie-Chevrolet Corvair windshield with 1965 to 1966 Ford Mustang fastback back glass...Invader GT-VW Karmann Ghia windshield with Invader GT specific plexiglass for the other windows...Fiberfab Aztec7-Lamborghini Miura windshield with Aztec7 specific other glass windows...Kellison GT40k-Chevrolet Corvair windshield all other glass is flat...Nova/Sterling/Eureka-All glass & windshield is Nova/Sterling/Eureka specific. This is a incomplete listing of VW baded kit cars & their glass requirements. Have a VW based kit car? Know the glass for it? Please list so others may know as well, thank you.

So... Karman Ghia. Back in the day, the one I wanted was the Amante GT, it used AMC Marlin windshield & back glass. There's an interesting backstory: fiberclassics.org/invader-gt5-history/

Roy Kaylor January 23, 2009 at 3:55 pm - Reply
I made the drawings and sketches for the Invader GT-1. David Loring made a clay plug in Sausolito with mud from Richardson’s Bay. He made a splash mold that he took up to Oregon where I made the first part that brought back to Menlo Park, CA where I made the pre-prototype for the Prius with it. The car was exhibited at over 100 shows. I produced 1100+ electric kits suitable for VW’s. .... Toyoto bought a prototype 110+ MPG @60MPH bio-diesel “synergy drive” hybrid electric car built on a GT-5 platform from us, Shut down by FBI Counintelpro immediately afterwards (2 hour story) in 1982. 831-234=9703

FBI.... 1982.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO