Any single-cylinder engine would power it. In the late 1940s, they began offering the single-seat Model I as a home-built, $500 kit, containing the frame, axles and sheetmetal patterns, so that the body panels could be fabricated by local tradesmen. King Midget’s cars made the Model T look like a Bugatti Royale. Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt, of Athens, Ohio, buddies from the Civil Air Patrol, wanted to sell bare-boned utility car that anybody could afford, unlike that bloody elitist peacenik Henry Ford with his fancy Model T. The King Midget story reminds us what a middle-class nation the U.S.
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Though unworkable, this three-wheeled suppository was the boldest of a series of futuristic, rear-engined cars of the 1930s, including the Tatra, the Highway Aircraft Corporation’s “Fascination” car and, everybody’s favorite, the Nazi’s KdF-wagen. A fatal accident involving the car - cause unknown - doomed its public acceptance. The third car had a stabilizer fin on top, which did nothing to cure the Dymaxion’s acute instability in crosswinds.
The next two Dymaxions were bigger, heavier, and only marginally more drivable. The first prototype had a wicked death wobble in the rear wheel. Okayyyy…Deprived of wings, the Dymaxion was a three-wheel, ground-bound zeppelin, with a huge levered A-arm carrying the rear wheel, which swiveled like the tail wheel of an airplane. It would be one link in his vaguely totalitarian plan for the people to live in mass-produced houses deposited on the landscape by dirigibles. Buckminster Fuller was one of the century’s great nutjobs, a walking unorthodoxy who originally conceived of the Dymaxion as a flying automobile, or drivable plane, with jet engines and inflatable wings. Ryan Adams / Yo La Tengo / Chris Isaak / Social Distortion / Sharon Van Etten / Dawes / Built to Spill / Lucinda Williams / Emmylou Harris / Dwight Yoakam / Lake Street Dive / Conor Oberst / Sun Kil Moon / John Prine / Vince Gill / Mavis Staples / St.Designer-genius R. Paul and The Broken Bones / Vince Gill / Mavis Staples / Conor Oberst / John Prine / Sun Kil Moon / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Shawn Colvin / Waxahatchee / Johnnyswim / Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / Deltron 3030 / Robert Earl Keen / Justin Townes Earle / Sarah Jarosz / The Lone Bellow / Jerry Douglas / The Felice Brothers / Rosanne Cash / Hurray for the Riff Raff / The Aquabats / Jonathan Wilson / Jeff Tweedy / Béla Fleck / Blue Rodeo / Reckless Kelly / Bruce Cockburn / Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real / The Apache Relay / Cibo Matto / Tony Joe White / Chuck Prophet / Parker Millsap / Nikki Lane / Rising Appalachia / Caitlin Rose / Dave Rawlings Machine / The Good Life / Buddy Miller / Buckwheat Zydeco / Chris Smither / Steve Earle and the Dukes / Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds / Willie Watson / Carlene Carter / Robbie Fulks / Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas / Striking Matches / T-Bone Burnett / Evolfo / Peter Rowan / Moonalice / Blackie And The Rodeo Kings / Joe Russo's Almost Dead / Red Baraat / Hot Rize / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang / The Time Jumpers / Kate York / Kevin Welch / The Mastersons / The Sam Chase / Ralph Stanley And The Clinch Mountain Boys / Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Poor Man's Whiskey / The Waybacks / Rose's Pawn Shop / Dry Branch Fire Squad / The Mccrary Sisters / Chuck Cannon / Malawi Mouse Boys / Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones / Shelly Colvin / Jesse DeNatale / Laurie Lewis And The Right Hands / Red Knuckles And The Trailblazers / The High Bar Gang / Bill Kirchen And Too Much Fun / Jerry Douglas Presents the Earls of Leicester / The Flatlanders Featuring Joe Ely / Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock / Wolf Hamlin & The Front Porch Drifters / Bad Luck Jonathan / Kenny Sears / Alison Brown Quintet including Joe Craven / Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin / THE GO TO HELL MAN CLAN / Whograss / The 3030 Orchestra / Dawn Sears and Ranger Doug Green Ryan Adams / Yo La Tengo / Chris Isaak / Sharon Van Etten / Social Distortion / Dawes / Built to Spill / Lake Street Dive / Lucinda Williams / Emmylou Harris / Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / Dwight Yoakam / St.
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