Pictures of the Dymaxion Car

Pictures of the Dymaxion Car
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.

Scale drawings of Car #1

View of the Bridgeport plant building during the car's development.

Starling Burgess seated at the wheel of Car #1, before the chassis was road tested.

Chassis of Car #1

Body construction of Car #1

Car #1 in the factory

Rolls out of the Bridgeport factory on July 12, 1933

Fuller and Starling Burgess with Car #1

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.

Side view of Car #1.

Shown next to a contemporary Franklin.

Burgess (left) and Flyer "Al" Williams (right), who later bought the car.

Ralph de Palma, who brought the first Fiat to the USA, standing beside Car #1.

Curiously, some photos of Car#1 show a round glass windshield, others show a segmented windshiel.d

Comparison of relatively heavy two-frame structure of the Car #1 (right) with the delicate three-frame structure introduced (left) in Car #2.

Construction details, Car #2.

Testing the wheels of Car #2 for strength and load distribution.

Car #2, complete. Headlights are recessed in the the body, providing air intake.

Another picture of Car #2.

The 1933 Dymaxion car used the same engine and drive train as the Ford of the same year next to it.

Car #3 at the Chicago World's Fair.

Car #3 rediscovered in Brooklyn in 1944.

Car #3 at the Wichita, Kansas airport next to a Republic Seabee amphibian plane, which was owned and piloted at the time by Fuller.

Concept illustration for Car #4, never built.

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

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

Many more pictures like this one, from the museum, are on Max Hall's webpage The Dymaxion: My pilgrimmage to Reno

Appears to be Car #3, from a collector of old photographs

Reportedly an interior photo of Car #1.

	Scale drawings of Car #1
	View of the Bridgeport plant building during the car's development.
	Starling Burgess seated at the wheel of Car #1, before the chassis was road tested.
	Chassis of Car #1
	Body construction of Car #1
	Car #1 in the factory
	Rolls out of the Bridgeport factory on July 12, 1933
	Fuller and Starling Burgess with Car #1
	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.

	Side view of Car #1.
	Shown next to a contemporary Franklin.
	Burgess (left) and Flyer "Al" Williams (right), who later bought the car.
	Ralph de Palma, who brought the first Fiat to the USA, standing beside Car #1.
	Curiously, some photos of Car#1 show a round glass windshield, others show a segmented windshiel.d
	Comparison of relatively heavy two-frame structure of the Car #1 (right) with the delicate three-frame structure introduced (left) in Car #2.
	Construction details, Car #2.

	Testing the wheels of Car #2 for strength and load distribution.
	Car #2, complete. Headlights are recessed in the the body, providing air intake.
	Another picture of Car #2.
	The 1933 Dymaxion car used the same engine and drive train as the Ford of the same year next to it.
	Car #3 at the Chicago World's Fair.

	Car #3 rediscovered in Brooklyn in 1944.
	Car #3 at the Wichita, Kansas airport next to a Republic Seabee amphibian plane, which was owned and piloted at the time by Fuller.
	Concept illustration for Car #4, never built.
	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
	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
	Many more pictures like this one, from the museum, are on Max Hall's webpage The Dymaxion: My pilgrimmage to Reno
	Appears to be Car #3, from a collector of old photographs
	Reportedly an interior photo of Car #1.