Who knows this car?
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Nuclear powered like the Ford Nucleon ?
No - more conventional... :D
a drawing for 1957 (I think) Volante or 'Tri-Athodyne' by Ford's designer Jim Powers for the Stylerama project?
There´s no Ford connection to my best knowledge.
But it´s american.
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From 1959, to be built for the US Army:
I guess it was an artist's interpretation of what emerged into the Chrysler VZ-6:
You´ve obviously found it - 1959 is also correct.
But it has a specific name.
This consists of the first part:
- the (known) constructor´s name.
and the second part:
- the model name
Still there´s not enough facts to lock it for you... :-\
Any connections to Curtiss-Wright?
No, but I must help here, because you´ve almost made it.
I´ll lock it for you, because you´ve found the connection showing those two pics in your posts.
There´s another (quite well) known vehicle that´s been constructed with the same design.
When you´ll find this, I think you´ll find the first name in a minute...
The three companies mentioned in my snippet all took part in the army's Flying Jeep competition. They were Chrysler with its VZ-6 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=1322.0) shown above, Curtiss-Wright with their VZ-7 of a different design and the Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep following the same concept as Chrysler. The well known flying car you refer to is probably the Curtiss-Wright Air Car (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3713.0)
No - take the third one, you´ve mentioned... :D
That would make it an Piasecki Airgeep or Air Jeep.
It makes it a Piasecki XXX...
It is not the Airgeep, but a proposal for the "normal" consumer, not for the military.
Piasecki Skycar?
Hallelujah!
;D