General Motors built two or possibly three tra... ...al Motors built two or possibly three transparent automobiles to display at the New York World’s Fair of 1939...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/09/see-through-pontiac/When gasoline was rationed or nonexistent during World War II, many cars were converted to run on firewood. The trend is making a comeback of sorts as gas prices rise higher and higher. See some of these cars and fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/19/woodburning-cars/Surely among the keen followers of Neatorama the... ...ossible to exercise while you drive or ride in an automobile . Never mind that this idea runs up against a zill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/16/the-automobile-as-gymnasium/When Ralph Nader wrote the book Unsafe at Any Spee... ...and tried to sell the idea of a safer car to the automobile industry and the public. What happened to this pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/28/how-the-u-s-government-killed-the-safest-car-ever-built/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGSWs4uJzY] YouTube link. The images in the video are "safe for work," but the audio is of a 911 call with a lethal outcome, so those sensitive to such tragedies might consider...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/31/what-to-do-if-your-vehicles-accelerator-is-stuck/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA][YouTube - Link]This is a great little video, an excerpt from Disney's "Magic Highway USA", showing what people from the late '50s thought would be the future...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/05/vision-of-the-automotive-future-from-1958/It has been argued that dirty cars are more fuel efficient than clean ones for the same reason that dimples on a golf ball improve its aerodynamics during flight. The team at Mythbusters tested these hypotheses and fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/23/can-you-improve-your-cars-gas-mileage-by-adding-golf-ball-dimples/What is it about Alameda, California, that attracts vintage (read: sometimes just old) cars? Is it the mild weather ... or something else entirely? Jalopnik has a neat feature called Down on the Street, which features...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/18/down-on-the-street-400-old-cars-and-trucks-on-the-streets-of-alameda/
