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Streamline design came into its own in the 1930s, and nowhere was it more noticeable than in automotive design. In 1934, the first mass-produced streamlined car, the Chrysler Airflow (also called the Desoto Airstream), was manufactured. Prior to the Airflow, in 1932, motoring journalist and aviator William B. Stout built a vehicle that looked like a giant legless cockroach that Stout dubbed the Scarab. In 1934, Austrian-born designer Alexius Pribil sketched out and later fabricated a teardrop-shaped house car called the Aircar. Around the same time, futuristic architect Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller along with Starling Burgess and Anna Biddle designed the Dymaxion car. Three of the vehicles, which were intended to be adaptable to a number of uses, including a transporter and even a house car, were built during 1933 and 1934. Alas, they were too advanced for the times and never went into production. This sole survivor, Dymaxion #2, was photographed at the National Automobile Museum (the Harrah Collection), Reno, Nevada.