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Originally Posted by fred cook
The car that Bucky designed and built. It used a Ford flathead engine mounted as a midengine, two front wheels and one in the rear. Extremely aerodynamic, could carry 6 or 7 people and got very high fuel mileage for the 1930s. He worked in/on transportation, housing and who knows what else. One of the rare minds of his time.
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You mean the POS that was unsafe to drive at anything near 50 mph because it handled so badly? the one that killed the driver when it inexplicibly went into a high speed wobble for no reason?
Maybe he should have gotten a patent on the caster.
Fuller was a hypester. He "
invented" things that stirred the imagination, he got people thinking, he apealed to their emotional senses.
Most of his crap didn't make any sense but it made people feel good.
Some folks revere him because they value that emotional appeal.
Others ignore the "feel good" stuff and see bucky's "stuff" for what it was.
He got kicked out of harvard twice.
He failed at everything he tried until he learned how to seperate investors from their money.
IMO he missed his true calling, hawking snake oil.
If you can't do, teach.
If you can't teach, preach.