Current Status
There were 3 original cars; car 1 was badly damaged, car 2 survives in the Harrah Collection of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada and car 3 changed hands many times but was lost, presumed scrapped, in the 1950s. In October 2010 architect, and student of Buckminster Fuller, Sir Norman Foster had recreated the Dymaxion producing car number 4.
Extensive research was carried out during the manufacture of car 4 in an attempt to replicate the interior of the original Dymaxion cars. Having completed the interior of car 4, O'Rourke Coachtrimmers was selected to restore the interior of the only surviving original, car 2. Car 2 was shipped to Rudgwick in order for the work to be carried out before returning to the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada
The Dymaxion car is the subject of a film by filmmaker and comedian Noel Murphy: The Last Dymaxion: Buckminster Fuller's Dream Restored. The film has been written up in the New York Times prompting an October 2011 lecture and screening at Yale University.
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