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Plywood cars and hydraulic drive – the wartime cars of Ray Russell

Written by webmin

Frustrated Automotive Tinkerer Hall of Fame candidate No. 347: Alfred Raymond “Ray” Russell of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
In 1942, while the rest of the automotive world geared up for the production of war machines, and while every other backyard tinkerer spent his time dreaming up novel ways of defeating the Axis, Ray Russell set out […]

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Tagged Alfred R. Russell, alt-power cars, amphibious vehicles, featured posts, flying cars, hydraulic drive, microcars and minicars, one-offs and homebuilts, personalities, plastic car, plywood car, Raymond Russell, streamliners and teardroppers  
 

Gustave Berman and his “flying car”

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Ah, the dreams of frustrated inventors. When every other issue of Popular Science is predicting flying cars just over the horizon, you almost start believing that traffic jams and rutted roads will become a thing of the past and that we will soon take to the skies en masse the same way we took to […]

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Tagged Daniel Strohl, flying cars, Gustave Berman, renderings and concept sketches  
 

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Aerocar

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Inspired by our Mystery of the Cuban skycar post from earlier this week (handily solved by reader Marilyn Stine – thanks, Marilyn!), we’re going to see what we can do with Aerocar as the subject for this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge.
Unlike the last few weeks, I will be in the office […]

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Tagged Aerocar, Daniel Strohl, flying cars, Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge  
 

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