“Bubble” Top Auto (Apr, 1946)
Filed under: Automotive — @ 2:05 am
Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1946
| Buy on Ebay
“Bubble” Top Auto
Anticipating that cars of the future will have all-around vision, George Bartell of Detroit built a streamlined automobile with a transparent plastic top similar to an airplane gun turret or “bubble” canopy. Named the “Hollywood Streak,” the car is 48 inches high, 60 inches wide and 140 inches long from bumper to bumper. It is powered by a 100-horsepower motor.
Wow, it’s as though Harley Earl got drunk during the building of the Buick “Y” job
Comment by Neil Russell — February 2, 2008 @ 6:04 am
It was one of those “one piece at a time” cars John Cash sang about. I believe he worked for General Motors and was fired before he “borrowed” all the pieces to complete it. It was later completed after finally getting a new job on an aircraft assembly line.
Comment by William Deering — February 2, 2008 @ 8:25 am
Take the bubble off and it’d be the world’s biggest bumper car!
Comment by nlpnt — February 2, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
its “the Homer”
Comment by discodrock — April 14, 2008 @ 11:42 pm