About
Project Streetliner is the screwball idea of designer and brandgineer Nathaniel Salzman. It's not a business venture, nor a contender for the Automotive X Prize. It's simply an exploration of what one determined person can accomplish in their spare time with a bit of ingenuity and a lot of help from people on the internet.
I'm deeply inspired by people like Burt Munro and the Wright brothers — seemingly ordinary people who did extraordinary things. They weren't experts or professionals, but through rigorous effort and sheer ingenuity, they did remarkable things. I don't actually think that this project is anything extraordinary in and of itself, except that it's a level of tinkering and garage ingenuity that we seem to have lost touch with these days. Tell the person in the cubicle next to you that you're headed home to build a three wheel car and they'll look at you like you have three heads. It wasn't so long ago that they'd be likely to loan you their cutting torch. Maybe I watched too much MacGyver as a kid or too much Mythbusters as an adult, but either way, I'm excited about this little gonzo engineering project and even more excited that it's going to involve people from all over the world. But most of all, I'm excited to be making something rather than consuming it – adding something to the world that wasn't quite there before.
—Nathaniel Salzman
