Some are from the out-of-print book "The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller",
(c) Robert W. Marks 1960
See also the figures from the patent.
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Scale drawings of Car #1 |
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View of the Bridgeport plant building during the car's development. |
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Starling Burgess seated at the wheel of Car #1, before the chassis was
road tested. |
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Chassis of Car #1 |
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Body construction of Car #1 |
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Car #1 in the factory |
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Rolls out of the Bridgeport factory on July 12, 1933 |
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Fuller and Starling Burgess with Car #1 |
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Crowds lined the private speedway to watch the first road tests.
Extending through the roof above the driver's seat is the car's rear view
periscope. |
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Side view of Car #1. |
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Shown next to a contemporary Franklin. |
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Burgess (left) and Flyer "Al" Williams (right), who later bought the
car. |
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Ralph de Palma, who brought the first Fiat to the USA, standing beside
Car #1. |
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Curiously, some photos of Car#1 show a round glass windshield, others
show a segmented windshiel.d |
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Comparison of relatively heavy two-frame structure of the Car #1 (right)
with the delicate three-frame structure introduced (left) in Car #2. |
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Construction details, Car #2. |
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Testing the wheels of Car #2 for strength and load distribution. |
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Car #2, complete. Headlights are recessed in the the body, providing
air intake. |
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Another picture of Car #2. |
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The 1933 Dymaxion car used the same engine and drive train as the Ford
of the same year next to it. |
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Car #3 at the Chicago World's Fair. |
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From: Mary Herner Freeman
[mvfreeman@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
I was looking at your web site and your pictures of
the dymaxion car. When my father, Raymond C. Herner, was working for the
Bureau of Public Roads in the research division, their labs and testing
ground were located at the Experimental Farm of the Department of
Agriculture across the road from the Arlington National Cemetery in
Washington DC. Somewhere around 1935 Buckminster Fuller came to the Farm
and brought his Dymaxion car to demonstrate it. I have a couple photos
of the car from when Mr. Fuller brought it to the site. |
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From: Doug Gary
[mailto:douggary@mongoweb.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007
This is a picture of a Dymaxion that was used by my grandfather's
bottling company for advertisement. I'm not sure what the exact
date of the picture. According to my grandfather's brother, this
vehicle was picked up in Washington, DC, and driven down to Charlotte,
NC. It was lost in a fire when the operator forgot to put on the
gas cap after filling up.
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Car #3 rediscovered in Brooklyn in 1944. |
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Car #3 at the Wichita, Kansas airport next to a Republic Seabee amphibian
plane, which was owned and piloted at the time by Fuller. |
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Concept illustration for Car #4, never built. |
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Bucky and his car pose with his 26' Fly's Eye dome during his 85th birthday
party at the Windstar Foundation in Snowmass, Co. in 1981 |
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Car #2 at the National Auto Museum in Reno, Nevada, in 1999. At
the time of the photo, there was a sign in front of the car explaining that
the interior isn't finished yet (hence the painted-over windows). Many
more pictures from the museum at
The Dymaxion: My
pilgrimmage to Reno
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Many more pictures like this one, from the museum, are on Max Hall's
webpage The
Dymaxion: My pilgrimmage to Reno |
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Appears to be Car #3, from a collector of old photographs |
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Reportedly an interior photo of Car #1. |
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