ICON Helios is a car from an alternate future past

California boutique auto builder ICON is developing a streamliner coupe inspired by the aircraft of the 1930s that it hopes to build on an all-electric chassis.

Dubbed Helios by ICON boss Jonathan Ward, the car is meant to be from an alternate universe where the Great Depression never happened and the luxury custom coachbuilding craze of the era continued unabated.

In Wards words:

“If Howard Hughes, around the time that he created the DC-1 experimental plane (and before he went totally bonkers…), had too many martinis with Gordon Buehrig and Buckminster Fuller at the Beverly Hills Hotel Cabana… what would they have dreamt up?”

ICON specializes in building modernized versions of classic trucks, like the Toyota FJ40 and Ford Bronco, and even aEconomics of the use of biologics in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
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