Explorers and trailblazers frequently choose a capable vehicle for their particular adventure. The Pilgrims sailed to the new land on the Mayflower in 1620, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis solo across the Atlantic in 1927, and Rear Adm. William Byrd hoped to explore the Antarctic in 1939, using a behemoth specialty vehicle known as the Antarctic Snow Cruiser.

Weighing more than 37 tons, measuring 55 feet long and standing 15 feet tall, it was flat, wide, long and heavy, with a control room that protruded from the front where the driver and navigator rode and space on top behind the cockpit area for an airplane to perch for aerial exploration.

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