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From Aldo Zana:

About the mystery car it’s the Dymaxion , the 1933 concept car by Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built for the Chicago World Fair 1933.It was totally unstable and underpowered, but the shape was a real revolution.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From Gary Hammond:

Here’s Hammond’s Historical Happenings for Mystery Photo # 35:

Automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car #1 – 3 were built (only one still survives); at Roosevelt Field (note old Curtiss Field hangers in background), 1933; Buckminster Fuller on right pointing; possibly the man he was talking to was pilot Frank T. Coffyn ((1878-1960) who drove the car on August 10, 1933 (see photo); license plate: red with white lettering “FV 453 CONN. 1933”.
The Dymaxion Corporation factory was located at the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building, Tongue Pointe, Bridgeport, CT.  Building markings: “4D / DYMAXION” (see photo)

This photo is probably from August 10, 1933 when the car was given test runs on the runways at Roosevelt Field, supposedly reaching more than 90 mph. (see Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 11, 1933, p. 6) The car again visited the Field when it was exhibited at the National Charity Air Pageant, held at Roosevelt Field, Saturday & Sunday, October 7-8, 1933. (see copy of ticket)

Aircraft: The P-3B Privateer amphibian, built by Amphibions, Inc. in 1933, with a 210 h.p. seven-cylinder Continental R-670 pusher engine, which was pylon-mounted above cockpit. Registration # NC13252.  Notice the Amphibions logo on the a/c. (see photo)
The company was originally called Ireland Aircraft Inc., and located at Curtiss Field, Garden City NY.  In 1931 it was reorganized as Amphibions Inc., at Roosevelt Field, Garden City, NY.

Hammond’s Bonus question: Did you know that an important Fuller design resides in Nassau County?  In 1936 Fuller designed a Dymaxion Bathroom for his friend Christopher Morley, for his writing studio “The Knothole”, in Roslyn, where it still resides!

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Omg Howard,my Uncle worked in Helena Rubiinstein when I was a teenager and early 20s,I think he was the president.I went their many times to watch them make cosmetics and always brought samples home for my Mom,what memories this brings back.

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

Possibly Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1 three-wheeler in Bridgeport, CT, July 12, 1933. Flyer “Al” Williams standing in front of vehicle with lighter slacks would eventually purchase the vehicle. An amphibian plane but dunno what it is.
http://www.vintag.es/2016/08/buckminster-fuller-and-dymaxion-car.html

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

The ” car ” is a Dymaxion probably around 1934,35 the pusher plane I’m guessing was made by Grumman but don’t know what they called it.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

2200 Northern Boulevard in East Hills is (or was last) owned by Pall Corp.  I was in there when they gutted it after Helena Rubenstein vacated it - what a vast, empty cavern!  I had a friend who, after her father, a Mill Neck police officer, always referred to the corner of Glen Cove Road and the North Hempstead Turnpike as Bull’s Head.  I also remember that one of my very first solo drives in February of 1950 was the full 24 mile length of Grand Avenue/Baldwin Road/Henry Street/Clinton Street-cum-Road/Guinea Woods Road/Glen Cove Road and the open grassy areas and white wooden fencing up north.  I feel I should instantly recognize the 1938 aerial but I just can’t place it - too rectangular and too much open land - this should be a “DUH”!  Sam, III

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion car ca. 1933 at Roosevelt Field.  What is of especial interest to us LIMPers is that the Dymaxion Corporation’s factory was in the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building at Tongue Pointe in Bridgeport, CT.  The amphibian appears to be a Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior (several survive, incl. at the Smithsonian’s NASM).  It’s hard to tell at such low res. but that seems to be Fuller at right, pointing.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion

Identify the airplane
Unsure-For a guess, I’ll say it’s a Curtiss since they were an airfield neighbor on Clinton Rd.

Where was the photo taken and in what year?
Roosevelt Field in 1933

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1
Identify the airplane:  I know I’ve seen this before, but came name it (or find it).  Might be hanging at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.  Similar military aircraft called the Walrus. 
Where was the photo taken and in what year?  Roosevelt Field, 1933 at the National Charity Air Pageant.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From Rich R.:

Amazing photos of history in my (our) backyard.

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

WOW look how small the trees are They are huge now I love the shot of the Mackay home w/ the statues [Thank you for saving one] Did Irving Berlin live there One of my friends has a Brougham carriage owned by Irving’s father in law who lived in Old Westbury

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

That’s R. Buckminster Fuller’s DYMAXION #1. Photo may have been taken on August 11, 1933 at Roosevelt Field. No clue on the plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

WOW what a glimpse into the past Thank you so much for sharing

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

The Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller.
Site could be Bridgeport, 1933. Maybe.
Can’t identify plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Looks like the Dymaxion three vehicle prototype near a Roosevelt Field hangar in
1933; either in August or October.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

In the U. S., Packard most notably used the wheel held out by a wingèd Victory as their radiatpr mascot ca. 1931-33.  <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/‘31_Packard_833_(MIAS_’10).jpg> Sam, III

From The Michelin Wheel of Fortune Poster on the French 1905 Gordon Bennett Elimination Race Course

Wow,incredible pictures,thanks for sharing them

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Fuller Dymaxion

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From David Stephan:

Howard-
Just returning from a West Coast trip, where, ironically, I met an exhibitor from the McCall’s Motorworks Revival (who unbelievably parked his collectable Ferrari in a parking spot next to my rental car). 

I posted a comment suggesting the mystery car from the August 22nd post is a custom car. Here is additional information that may be of some use to Gary Monti and Bill Barto.

The mystery car does not have a Delahaye badge and its grille matches the stylized illustration mentioned in the comment (which is not a correct Delahaye grill).

From other videos of the McCall’s show and from LA Times reporting, one can see other custom cars on display. The 1939   Delahaye Model 165 (sometimes misidentified on the Internet as 1938 because it was introduced at the ’38 Paris auto show) is in the Mullin Museum and on the museum’s website one can find a summary of the car’s history and its link to the World’s Fair” (see http://www.mullinautomotivemuseum.com/#!/discovery/car/42 ).  On the web, one can find at least one replica Model 165 car shown being constructed.

The McCall’s theme this year was old and new—how the old shows up in the new. The ’39 Model 165 was introduced at the World’s Fair as a “Car of Tomorrow” and its full pontoon fenders can be seen as an antecedent to later designs, including those of some race cars that videos of the show reveal are positioned behind the man in the blue shirt in the mystery photo. Another custom car—perhaps inspired by a Bugatti roadster—sits “in front” of the mystery car (see https://www.facebook.com/MCCALLEVENTS ). That car shows the mid 30’s separate teardrop pontoon fenders. In a sense, walking into the hangar towards the America flag, one would see the evolution of this feature, with the connected pontoons of the ’39 Delahaye as an intermediate form and the exotic Koeningsegg and McLaren cars located deepest in the hangar, as the latest form.

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956

From a previous mystery, the mystery painting on the wall gets closer to a Michelin poster!
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_foto_friday_33_can_you_identify

From The Michelin Wheel of Fortune Poster on the French 1905 Gordon Bennett Elimination Race Course