Rear Engine Automobile

​The rear engine automobile was designed and constructed before WWII, and is dated 1938. For some time, the partial body photograph was the only extant information on the project. Some ten years ago, additional information was found in a Chicago Tribune article, claiming that the test drive, Mylo Ozuk, had been pulled over going 90mph. It included a photograph of the car chassis and tube framework to hold the body, giving credence to the existence of a running car.

The car was made by the father/son team of Charlie and Mylo Ozuk, machinists and fabricators. They were good friends of Goldberg. It is not exactly known who did what on the car - no drawings exist. But it is likely the idea of the rear engined V8 was Goldberg’s, as was the single fiberglass body shape (although it is not clear if it ever got past the preliminary stages). The fabrication was surely by the Ozuks.

Charlie Ozuk’s brother was on the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942; Mylo continued to work with Goldberg for several decades, into the 1970s. He made several other fabrications, including furniture; he was photographed in the early 1960s working on the Marina City construction site with a drilling apparatus of his construction.