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

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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/

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

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photo by George Lyman

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