The soybean car was a concept car built by Henry Ford's company with a body of agricultural plastic, shown to the public on 13 August 1941 at Dearborn, Michigan. A tubular steel frame carried about fourteen plastic panels a quarter of an inch thick, with acrylic windows, cutting the weight from roughly 2,500 pounds for a typical car to about 1,900 pounds. Ford wanted to link industry with agriculture, and the plastic was also a hedge against wartime steel rationing. Lowell Overly led the work at the Soybean Laboratory in Greenfield Village. Wartime curbs on car production ended the experiment, and accounts differ on the exact ingredients of the panels.
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