I Found This Beautiful, Bizarre Car In A German Design Museum — And Its Backstory Is Fascinating

I was in Munich for DLD, a conference, and I had a morning to kill.

So I joined a group tour of modern art museum Pinakothek der Moderne's design wing.

There was all kinds of impressive stuff – but I immediately gravitated to a crazy-looking, beautiful car.

You can see it on the bottom left of this photo.

Here it is. Just look at it.

It looks like a car from the distant past's lost vision of the distant future.

The placard said it's a Tatra 87 from 1937…