How weird can a custom car go?

Let us find out. Join me as I try to chronicle some concept cars we can clearly classify as something beyond the extraordinary. This will be an exciting trip, you guys, so fasten your seatbelts as we are going, going, going…

First stop, the Dymaxion.

As if its appearance is not reason enough (is that a premature eggplant or an elongated egg?).

This bulky brawler—a three-wheeler—was the brainchild of Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Bucky is also the one responsible for those so-called “Bucky Balls,” which are best remembered in soccer balls.

Running for over 30 mpg, the Dymaxion was designed to carry up to 11 people, which then makes it the earliest predecessor of the minivan. Its very look perhaps was too amazing for it to be mass produced during its time (freakin’ 1933!), hence, up to now, there is only one Dymaxion seen by mortal eyes, which is, there, captured in the photo above.

Well, actually, you can blame it on the freak accident that happened in 1934, in which two passengers were seriously hurt with the driver dying, that is why the project was abandoned by investors, who concluded that the Dymaxion has faulty steering.