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@PRRMP54 posted:

There was one produced by Max Gray/Ken Kidder/US Hobbies(?) in a long-hull and a short-hull version, sometime during the late fifties/early sixties; I have one of the short-hull versions. Many years later, Precision Scale (or someone similar) produced a run of McKeens (including the short trailer); they are the ones that go for megabucks. Here is my MG/KK/USH(?) one:

McKeen-001McKeen-002McKeen-003

I had read somewhere that the car was actually more aerodynamic when running in reverse; when these were designed, aerodynamics was a basically unknown field. There was also an interurban car called a "Windsplitter" that the Stark Electric (Stark, OH) had a pair of. Theirs had a flat rear end with the boarding/alighting door located there. One day they "met in a cornfield" and were rebuilt into conventional cars.

That is beautiful

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