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The Airomobile [1]

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Date: 2023-02-11  

In the 1930s, there was an idea that airplane streamlining could be applied to automobiles. Paul M. Lewis envisioned the Airomobile to be the distinctive car of the future with a sheet-steel body and a three-wheel chassis. Designer John Tjarrda actually made the first sketches of the Airomobile. Lewis made one prototype of the car, which was projected to sell for $550 (the Ford Tudor sold for $579 at this time). He drove the car all over the United States to promote it, putting 45,000 miles on it and averaging 43.6 mpg. The car failed to attract enough investors to put it into production.

Some people, including some museum curators, consider the Airomobile to be a work of art. This car was displayed in the Portland Art Museum.

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