I understood there to have been three original Dymexion. One was crashed after a steering failure. Norman Collier, so-ry Fo-t-r, has a repro as does Geoff Lane, also owner of numerous microcars. One original is being rebuilt in California I think. Fantastic creation and Buckmaster Fuller is a most interesting guy to read about. Do not forget Bucky Balls.
Several film clips of the car but the famous one is the car circulating a policeman on point duty. If you watch the films you will see the differing cars.
I had to think for a while before I remembered who he is...Red Dwarf's computer.
As for Bucky Balls (Carbon 90) there was a programme called Plastic - How It Works on BBC 4 a few nights ago (I think that's the right name). Fascinating documentary, showing the development of different plastics and the difficulties of producing them. Two scientists at Manchester University discovered another form of carbon a few years back and received
Nobel Prizes for figuring out how to harness its amazing properties., e.g. it can be
peeled to a sheet exactly one
Atom thin, and conducts electricity at (if I recall correctly) 3,000 ft per second, very useful for computers and electronics. I also learned that Carbon Fibre had been invented at Farnborough aerospace labs. Nice to see high calibre British boffinry on TV, such a rare thing.
Er, this post IS micro-car-related, see the bold words!