The 1950s was a time of huge optimism for far-fetched car design - join us for a look at these crazy jet-age concepts
weighed half as much as an equivalent V8 internal combustion engine. As soon as one of the doors was opened the glass canopy was raised electrically and anpopped up as soon as the hydraulic brake was applied, in a bid to help out the mechanical braking system.You could be forgiven for thinking that the Gyron was a three-wheeler, but as the name suggests it actually had just two wheels.
Inside there was seating for five; two up front and three in the back. But nearly 60 years on, not many cars look or operate like this.In a bid to complicate things unnecessarily the Seattle-ite XXI featured four front wheels, all of which steered but this was done via a fingertip-controlled dial on the centre console – there was. Power could be from a turbine, electric motor or “compact nuclear propulsion device”.
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