EV Gray and the "fuelless engine" Fascination car

Mark Frauenfelder at 2:36 PM March 10, 2010

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I, too, am very, very anxious for the day to come when I can purchase a Fascination car with an EV Gray fuelless engine.

The Fascination Car was the brain child of Paul M. Lewis, of the Highway Aircraft Corporation. It was developed with a standard engine, but he wanted to power it with ANYTHING that didn't burn gasoline. He was in negotiations with Ed Gray for a while to use the EMA Engine, but that fell through. He then approached Josef Papp for his plasma engine. Ultimately, neither the engines or the car were ever produced.

EV Gray and the Fascination Car (Via PCL Link Dump)

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Anon #1 15:19 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Looks a lot like Bucky Fuller's Dymanxion car.

Reverend Loki #2 15:30 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

That is a beautiful car. I would so drive something that looks like that around.

nixiebunny #3 15:31 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

That Edwin Gray sounds like a real character. Gotta love those perpetual motion types.

This car seems to have borrowed a bit of something form Fuller's Dymaxion. I'm not sure what.

Anon #4 15:43 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Edwin Gray seemed to be one of these people who think that a perpetual motion machine is possible, if you try hard enough. Any physics student will tell you that fuel-less engines can't work.

merreborn #5 16:18 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

If I'm reading this right, it sounds like "fuelless" is used in the sense of "runs on anything other than gasoline", rather than "runs without any sort of energy input".

By which measure the Tesla Roadster is "fuelless".

newtomato #6 16:37 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Just saw this car and tons more like it at the new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive museum, "What Were They Thinking?" All sorts of car oddities. That is one huge museum - blew me away!

newtomato #7 16:39 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Doh! It wasn't exactly this car, but one that looked almost like it - especially the front side.

Anon #8 18:15 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Sidney, Nebraska? The home of Cabela's, and not a whole lot else? Interesting.

Anon #9 18:24 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

Penny wise, pound fuelless.

Baron Karza #10 18:42 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

I just saw one parked on Fascination Street. Gotta love the fake turbines and shopping cart on back! Looks "heavily inspired by" a Dymaxion car, with extra stuff added. Probably a wee bit more stable with the wider wheelbase, but I wouldn't want to drive it in a high wind across a bridge!

Anon replied to comment from Reverend Loki #11 22:36 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

I was thinking the exact same thing.

GoGo Vicmorrow #12 22:44 on Wed, Mar.10 Reply

That is the only thing I have ever wanted to drive.

oheso #13 05:38 on Thu, Mar.11 Reply

I'd put Dad's Corvair engine in that baby!

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