This scenario could really have happened as in the 1920s people knew about aerodynamics (airplanes were growing increasingly advanced). All they needed to do was flip the airfoil concept (literally) so that it made downforce instead of lift.
However, cars of the era never went beyond streamlining as a means to do something constructive about the air going around, but if they did chances are those cars would have looked much like the ones in the gallery.
They are a really rather neat idea dreamed up by John Frye out of South Pasadena, California.
What he basically envisioned (and artistically sketched out) are mixes of period grand prix cars with period airplane bits. There’s really no right or wrong approach to making this believable and really come alive in our imaginations, but we’re happy someone came up with the idea.
He also suggests that these cars could have actually happened had the First World War been averted.
In his own words, “after the failed assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, WWI is dodged, and an era of great economic expansion begins. Automobile racing is at the forefront of technological development and some of the discoveries that put planes into the air are being used to stick cars to the ground from 1911-1919. Formula is open, so experiments are wild, free, and dangerous…”
That’s what we call thinking outside the box and it’s no wonder it resulted in not only artistically successful but also believable concepts from a technical standpoint.
It is said that after a major armed conflict always comes a time of reconstruction, renewal and innovation. But people area always more creative in times of peace and these lovely sketches give us a taste of what we might have missed out on.
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