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This is a car from the 1960s that never made it to production. The prototype proved that a self balancing gyroscope car could work, but it was still years away from completion. Sadly the company went ...

X, a unique two-wheeled car prototype designed in 1967 by Alex Tremulis. Powered by a 1.3L engine and balanced using a 56 cm ...

Of all the zany car technologies I’ve read about a gyro car isn’t one of them. From what my simple man-brain can discern, the Gyro-X, revealed to the world at the 1961 Detroit Auto Show, is a ...

Nashville’s Lane Motor Museum is well known for its collection of restored misfit automobiles, including everything from three-wheelers to amphibians to even the propeller-driven Helicron concept from ...

Back in 1967, California-based Gyro Transport Systems built a prototype vehicle known as the Gyro-X. The automobile had just two wheels, one in front and one in the back and, as the car’s name implies ...

This is the Lane Motor Museum, home of the one and only Gyro-X. The Gyro-X is a two-wheeled prototype vehicle. Developed in the 1960s, it was proposed as a solution for the future of transportation.