a new, quarterly, English-language, 96-page motoring history magazine, titled Rare & Unique Vehicles... a magazine for those who like the unusual, is being proposed. The publisher needs to collect 400 subscribers in order to launch the magazine.

It will be a quarterly English-language magazine featuring unique content on 96-pages. Each issue will focus on a central theme, followed by a few anniversary-related features and Spin the Globe. Spin the Globe is a unique column, featuring rare, unusual and interesting cars, motorcycles, trucks and buses from around the world.

The central theme for the first issue is streamlining. 

Additionally, a look at the Victoria K1 – the first BMW-engined motorcycle from 1920 –, 

50-years of Bond Bug. 

The Spin the Globe section will feature a Trabant-based buggy from Hungary, 

a French car from 1901 which escaped all the history books,

 an Australian coupe and more.

Rare & Unique Vehicles will be available in digital format on Readly from the middle of November. 

The printed version of the first issue is scheduled to be published on the 10th of January, 2021. A single issue costs €9.90 – yearly subscription is €34.90 for four issues. 

https://rareandunique.media/

Adler Trumpf Rennlimousine of 1938 -photo by Bob Sheldon in cortina d ' Ampezzo (Italy), in 1952

Jaray had been trained in airship design at a time when Germany was pioneering lighter-than-air flight. Having determined that the so-called spindle shape of an airship was ideally aerodynamic, Jaray cut it in half through the equator to form an automobile body. Further study determined that, in order to give the car stability, the half-spindle shape had to be tapered out into flat wings on either side of a tapered rear. The windshield was completely curved at almost 180 degrees to ideally direct air around the car rather than over it.

After 1955 the Adler was exported to the United States and came into the ownership of Joe Gertler Sr., operator of the Raceway Garage in the Bronx and a noted racing car fabricator and mechanic of his time. Remarkably, of the three Rennlimousines that survived the war, Mr. Gertler would come to own two of them.

The Adler was later acquired by Jimmy Brucker, best known for the Movieworld – Cars of the Stars Museum in Buena Park, but widely remembered as a sponsor of numerous kustom kulture artists, including Von Dutch, Robert Williams, and Ed Roth, as well as a supplier of unusual antique automobiles to the film industry.

Following MovieWorld's closure, the Adler was acquired by Ken Behring's Blackhawk Collection.

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the odd design style of Paul Jaray, applied to a 1935 Maybach Streamliner coupe at the Paris Autoshow contrasted with the 1938 GAZ gl1

Above image from http://dieselpunks.blogspot.com/2010/06/perfect-streamline.html via: http://megamoto.tumblr.com/

Bottom photo was from Le Container I think.. not sure

Anyway, what a contrast of designs.. the Jaray at top was streamlined body, big cabin... opposite the GAZ below. Odd to have found these photos at about the same time.

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