Fascination

Fascination was an American automobile brand associated with the Highway Aircraft Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado, and later Sidney, Nebraska. The car was designed by Paul Lewis, who had previously created the prewar Lewis Airomobile.

The Fascination stood out for its unusual styling, resembling an egg shape paired with an aircraft wing motif. In its initial form, the car was claimed to use a flat, air-cooled engine, but production plans were disrupted by legal problems.

Following the company's move to Nebraska, Lewis developed a revised version of the car featuring a teardrop-shaped body and a wing-like tail section, with four wheels arranged so that the front pair sat close together. Several unconventional powerplants were considered for production, including a steam engine, an electromagnetic motor powered by static electricity, and a two-cycle engine with sealed cylinders operating on self-contained gas.

Despite these ambitions, only three examples of the Fascination were ultimately built, and all of them were fitted with Renault engines rather than any of the experimental powerplants originally proposed.