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Dieselpunk, Abandoned
Link - by Avi Abrams



Crossover: Dieselpunk + Retrofuture, by Victor-Albert Bouffort

"Victor-Albert Bouffort was an aeronautics engineer who took it upon himself to design and build some pretty crazy cars in the years after WWII. The first was this magnificent streamlined three-wheeler based on a Citroen Traction-Avant". Read this good article about this man here.


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As it is clearly abandoned in the picture, it conveys mostly melancholy mood (hopefully since then somebody picked up and fully restored it - and by doing this, corrected one of the worst injustices in the Universe: a way-ahead-of-its-time design left to rust on the outskirts of history, forgotten... and yet presenting an image of surpassing beauty for those who truly care).



(images credit: Retromobile)


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5 Comments:

Blogger Hibryda said...

How nice DRB is back.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep, how nice.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love DRB!

I would like to recommend microcarmuseum.com for sources on this topic.

AND, flyingmachines.ru/ for a ridiculously intense and complete compendium of flying machines from... feathers to the 1920's.

This last will require googletranslate, but is well worth the effort.

Best wishes for your continued success?

(BTW: where is your tip jar? Would contribute!)

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you so much! We are working on Tip Jar thing, in a meantime if you'd like to help us out a bit, you can donate to abramsv@gmail.com PayPal account. Thank you again! Appreciation like this keeps us going :)

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Anonymous Yolanda Turnquest said...

These are some funky styles! Thanks for sharing.

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