Where is my flying platform? The damn things were perfected in 1956... what happened to them?

Hey! It's got wheels, and therefore I'm not compromising my standards! Who knew I could stretch an "Anything cool with wheels" philosophy so far and wide?

You'll notice the interesting tanker in the lower left corner, must have been detached from a semi truck?

from the LIFE archives.

For the other flying saucers that they made in the 1950's look at these three http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/proof-that-man-can-design-flying.html

proof that man can design flying saucers that work

The Avro flying saucer

Above via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=561

Above via: http://piccole.rispostesenzadomanda.com/

Well the top one has tires, and that gets it on the blog... but it needed company so the bottom image got to ride along

Both from the cool stuff found at http://megamoto.tumblr.com/

1909 Sultan Landaulet town car and taximeter, oddly, one has the driver covered but the other has the passengers covered. Undecided designers?

I suppose there was a market for each, but it's a very odd juxtapositon of the roof on the one manufacturer's cars

some amazing things turned up in classifieds, a Bugatti 57sc Atalante, and a wonderful 1930 Morgan 3 wheeler van/beetleback

What did MIT students do to their cars in 1970?

photo by George Lyman

1918 Fageol, made in Oakland California, unique look

they only made one, the 1906 Pungs Finch

Above via: http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/13142/Pungs-Finch-Finch-Limited-Touring.html

Discovered by Long Island Auto Museum owner Henry Austin Clark Jr, it is possibly the earliest hemi combustion design, and was Guaranteed to do 55 mph... that is remarkable for 1906. It was a nearly 650 cu in engine, and 4 cylinders.

Via: http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z16791/Pungs-Finch-Limited.aspx

More about the Megola, 5 cylinder radial engine front wheel drive cycle

This one was found in a basement in New Hyde Park New Jersey, where it had been for decades, and they bough tit for 100 dollars. It took 7 years to restore

It looks like there is a lot on the web about it: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS326US327&q=megola&um=1&resnum=5&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

One is in a Swiss Museum, the collection of Joe Hilti, for the eye candy large format up close hi res hi def in color:http://gespannreise.regina-vetter.ch/wp-content/uploads/megola1b-1024x768.jpg