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National Automobile Museum. For years, it didn’t look like much.
Sure, Dymaxion No. 2 – the only remaining streamlined car of the
future built by Buckminster Fuller – was on display at the
National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, but it didn’t run
and its interior was so unpresentable, the museum had blocked
off its windows. Then for the last three years, visitors to the
museum didn’t see it at all. But now it’s back, looking better
than ever after a recent restoration, and the museum intends to
get it running in the near future. Buckminster Fuller could
probably best be described as a designer, but even that term
fails to capture the totality of his interests. Best known as
the creator of the geodesic dome, he also pursued poetry, art,
mathematics, and for a brief period during the early 1930s, car
design. Concerned primarily with minimizing waste and maximizing
space, Fuller designed a streamlined and fully enveloped car in
a reverse trike configur