We’re feeling the atomic age, retrofuturist, mid-century modern fantasy this #MotorMonday in our 1960 Curtiss-Wright 'Bee’ Air-Car.
The Bee was based on the 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car, a 21-foot-long, 8-foot-wide, and 5-foot-tall functioning hover car designed under contract for the department of Army Transportation Research Command.
After the military declared them unsuitable for military use (the vehicles were unreliable on rocky or uneven ground), the Curtiss-Wright Corporation attempted to salvage the project with the Bee, a modified design intended for use by the public. Sadly, the Bee never made it to production, although the U.S. Army Transportation Museum has preserved one of the original Air Cars designed for military use.
