I failed in attempts to transfer a photo of this thing with or without the airplane on top. If someone can add that to the thread, that would add to it.It's quintessentially American to drive everywhere. This must've occurred to the planners of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition in 1939 when the joint government-private sector project ran into the question of how best to traverse Antarctica's frozen wastelands. The obvious answer? A car. A really, really, really big car. Or so thought Thomas Poulter, designer of the doomed Antarctic Snow Cruiser seen in these pictures.
You'd think a massive machine like this would still exist somewhere, even in pieces. And surely they made more than one for the journey. But no—the single Snow Cruiser built is lost somewhere in Antarctica (or at the bottom of the Southern Ocean). Just where exactly is an international mystery that's likely to remain unsolved forever.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/33433/...m-of-the-world
I love stories like this about men with a vision from a bygone age even when they fail.
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Originally Posted by wacojoe
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