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A loyal Chevrolet dealer has combined a Chevy car with a small boat to create a unique 25 foot motor cruiser.

A streamlined three-wheeled car from California is demonstrated. While it seems simple to drive, it never caught on.

An experimental flying automobile is demonstrated. In a matter of minutes a small aeroplane is converted to an automobile so the driver can complete his journey home in the same vehicle in which he flew through the skies.

An American engineering student demonstrates his portable electric scooter which he carries in a bag. It's so light it can be unpacked and fitted together in minutes and gives him more than 100 miles to the gallon.

Comedy newsreel showing a postwar American driver who fitted his car with two dummy passengers to evade hitchhikers.

American postwar darling Dinah Shore previews the new 1953 Chevrolet.

Rare footage of the ultra streamlined Dymaxion car which was built in 1933. It's aerodynamic features meant it was way ahead of its time, but it never caught on.

Rare film of a test run of the English made Dynaspehere -one of the weirdest "cars" ever designed.

Amazing footage of a new multifunctional, amphibious Italian car which is as comfortable in the water as it is on the highway. It can also climb city steps with ease.

A visionary film depicting how cars may interact with the road and others cars in the future. The idea was that wires built into the road surface communicating with cars using the road would mean there would be no more road accidents in the future. Simple.

A newsreel of a flying automobile which while it looks OK, doesn't convince the sceptical narrator.

French army engineers demonstrate a new, auto pontoon. Effectively this is a unique amphibious vehicle which can be metamorphosed into a temporary bridge. Once inflated it can carry up to 200 people who can be ferried across any land or water.

Excellent documentary showing Ford's experimental amphibious scout car driving in water and on land -and seemingly at home in both environments.

In an event staged purely for entertainment purposes, dressed-up chimpanzees drive their own midget automobiles around a fair ground.

The exercise craze of the 1980s was even introduced to car drivers. Here, an innovative radio DJ organized his own afternoon car aerobics sessions for stressed out drivers -fortunately, only when they were stationery.

A weird spectacle of acrobats practicing on strange gymnastic equipment mounted high on top of a moving car.

An unashamed marketing film from the early 1930s which features a Chevrolet car as a backdrop to a group of skimpily clad pretty girls playing on the beach, as well as up in the mountains.

A small passenger bus in Tennessee has extra wheels fitted to enable it to travel on both the highway and railway tracks.

A fun-loving outdoor barber demonstrates his new mobile place of work -the back of a Chevrolet car.

A rare demonstration of how attaching a "rocket" to a racing car at Indianapolis helps it increase its average speed from 100 to 140 mph.

This wonderfully entertaining film is a throwback to the early days of off-road motor sport. It features a Jeep festival in Washington state, USA, which includes plenty of mud and mayhem and a laugh-a-second commentary.

Risque film from the 1940s showing two women hitch hikers struggling to get a lift until they start shedding their clothes.

A novel moving walkway is tested and demonstrated. The idea is that in the future, pedestrians will simply walk onto the walkway as they travel down the road, instead of having to do all the legwork themselves. Although it looks impressive, city officials around the world clearly still believe in the concept that our own legs should be moving us around.