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The Dreams of Engineers – The Weird & Wonderful Cars

J. Michael Hemsley
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The hunt for interesting automobiles to profile often leads to some very unusual vehicles. One-off vehicles do not lend themselves to the standard profile format, but they are much too interesting to ignore. The subjects of this article are three of those unusual automobiles. In each case, they are one-off vehicles that resulted from the imagination and creativity of their builders, two engineers and a machinist (but let’s throw him in the same pot and call him an engineer, since he had to do a lot of engineering design work to create his dream car). Here are their unique stories – the oldest automobile first.

1925 Gerin Aerodyne

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