I had never heard of this as I was alive but very young at the time. Essentially a “gal” (turns out “she” was a trans) creates a car company during the 1970s fuel shortages that promises 70mpg from a 3 wheel car. Claimed the body was made from “rocket” resin and could run into a wall at 30mph + and suffer little more than a scratch. Made a prototype or model that’s in the Peterson auto museum and collected tens of millions of dollars from investors and turns out it’s a scam.
I saw this last night watching “Unsolved Mysteries.” She was on the lam (or is it lamb?) at the time and thanks to the airing of the show she was captured in Texas. From the show it sounded like she took a lot of money from wealthy people who definitely should have known better despite the fact that the claims she made about the car were highly implausible. Reminded me immediately of Elizabeth Holmes.
Sounds like HBO made a documentary about this and predictably made her out to be a hero of sorts just for being trans even though she was a criminal through and through.
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I saw this last night watching “Unsolved Mysteries.” She was on the lam (or is it lamb?) at the time and thanks to the airing of the show she was captured in Texas. From the show it sounded like she took a lot of money from wealthy people who definitely should have known better despite the fact that the claims she made about the car were highly implausible. Reminded me immediately of Elizabeth Holmes.
Sounds like HBO made a documentary about this and predictably made her out to be a hero of sorts just for being trans even though she was a criminal through and through.
'The Lady and the Dale' Is a Strange, Strange Tale
New docu-series shows the three-wheeled Dale car is just a small part of a much bigger story
www.autoweek.com
What Happened to the Dale Car From 'The Lady and the Dale'
"The Lady and the Dale" on HBO tells the story of the mysterious entrepreneur Geraldine Elizabeth 'Liz' Carmichael and her seemingly too good to be true Dale car—a car that is now exceedingly rare.
www.newsweek.com
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