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.





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Looks a lot like Bucky Fuller's Dymanxion car.
That is a beautiful car. I would so drive something that looks like that around.
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.
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.
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".
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!
Doh! It wasn't exactly this car, but one that looked almost like it - especially the front side.
Sidney, Nebraska? The home of Cabela's, and not a whole lot else? Interesting.
Penny wise, pound fuelless.
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!
I was thinking the exact same thing.
That is the only thing I have ever wanted to drive.
I'd put Dad's Corvair engine in that baby!
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