Elephant Car in Auction

I think I am in a really strange mood lately. I have attracted to off the wall things my whole life, but lately I like the odd and obscure.

A rare 1947, Elephant car in auction at the moment. Powered by a four cylinder Chevy engine, all hydraulics, tucked neatly inside the body cavity. The elephant literally skates along at speeds of up to 20 mph.
Stuart made three of the in 1947. One is permanently housed in a museum in Austria, one as well used for decades by the Hudson Department store in Detroit (it was later sold to a private museum in Chicago where it resides today) and one was kept by the inventor. It is the latter pictured here and it comes to us from his family who cared for it after his demise. In all likelihood, it will be the only one ever to come up for public auction.

It appears that at least this one was made for Barnum Bailey's Circus.