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A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor " bullet trains ".
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Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.
Wynns Stormer is a streamliner dragster. [1]Built in 1972 by Woody Gilmore (who also produced Don Prudhomme's wedge digger), on a Woody chassis, [2] the car had bicycle front wheels and dropped front axle, a very pointed nose, and an engine cover with broad, wedge-like fairings over the exhaust pipes, ahead of the rear tires; the fairings sloped steeply from track level to the top of the tires.
Sidewinder III is a streamliner dragster. [1] Built by Kent Fuller in 1969, it used a transversly-mounted supercharged 350 Chevy [1] (hence "sidewinder") in a magnesium-tube chassis with a 123 in (3,100 mm) wheelbase. [1] It was run by the team of Hopkins, Thornhill, and Finicle in BB/GD (B supercharged gas dragster). [1]
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