The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I mean by this is the chasm between what was promised and what we’ve got: the old “Where’s my jetpack?” meme. Or, “I wanted cars in tubes but all I’ve got is Twitter.” Yes,… Continue reading Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
Category: Vehicles
General category for cutaway drawings related to cars, trucks, and anything to do with land transport.
Camper Built Inside a Car, 1952
The illustrator for this drawing is unknown, which is a shame because it’s such a precisely rendered cutaway of a 1949 Nash that had been converted into a camper. Lucius Sheets of Huntington, Indiana, converted his Nash into a camper that allowed him to sleep, cook, and eat on the road, saving motel expenses.… Continue reading Camper Built Inside a Car, 1952
Two Story Trailer Cutway, 1952
From the magazine, we’re told that this trailer, from Holan Engineering from Elwood, Indiana, has two stories and an attic, a plastic-tiled kitchen and bathroom, and a living room with a picture window. The trailer is 8 feet wide by 40 feet long. What they don’t tell us is that this is a mobile home,… Continue reading Two Story Trailer Cutway, 1952
Arctic Wanigan Cutaway, 1950
The “wanigan” was an 8 x 24 foot mobile caboose that was attached to the back of Arctic explorers’ tracked wagon trains. The wanigan had four bunks, refrigerator, coal stove, table, sink, and latrine. Click to Enlarge to 594 x 478 px: Source: Popular Mechanics May 1950
Pickup Truck Camper Cutaway, 1967
This pickup truck camper was pretty state-of-the-art stuff for RVs in the late 1960s. It had a pass-through to the cab; 12v outlets; aircraft inclinometers to indicate when the camper was leveled off; stiff springs; and an over-the-cab bunk. Source: Popular Mechanics May 1967