Sweet rides

[Grammatron]

You don't know what makes their grass so green

[Witness]

Sometimes, I wish we really did live in the future that people in the past thought we would live in.

I agree – especially when trying to get on an airplane.

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[Nyarlathotep]

You don't know what makes their grass so green

The hell I don't. That's half the appeal.

[Witness]

Frank Curtis with a new Kurtis Craft Sport, 1949.

[Nyarlathotep]

A prototype armored car from the '40s. Only one ever built. Apparently it broke down all the time and the drivers hated the thing.

[Nyarlathotep]

Interior of the above

[Doctor X]

--J.D.

[Witness]

"The Schlörwagen" A prototype aerodynamic rear-engine passenger vehicle developed by Karl Schlör (1911–1997). Wind tunnel tests yielded a drag coefficient of only 0.113. Unveiled at the 1939 Berlin Auto Show, project was shelved with the onset of World War II. Germany, Berlin, 1939.

[Abdul Alhazred]

The finished version of the Schlörwagen, not just a protoype.

In 1942, the Schlörwagen prototype had somehow gotten into Russian hands; it was fitted with an Soviet radial air-cooled aero-engine which appears to have developed 100 or 125 hp, driving a ducted fan. Several references say it was a five-cylinder engine, but in this view three or four cylinders are visible, which suggests it was actually a seven-cylinder engine.

http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPOR ... ca.htm#sch

[Witness]

↑ I think we can agree that this excrescence on an otherwise cool car is hideous.

[Abdul Alhazred]

But it gets the job done, right?

[Doctor X]

Tah-dah!

--J.D.

[Witness]