that is one strange Rolls Royce, but they have their own gas pump in the yard! (Thank you Rolf!)

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/69/

In 1933 this lightweight and streamlined body was fitted for Alan Bemis to pull his glider up into the air. 

It was given an aluminum body with Plexiglas (Perspex) rear windows, fairly new materials in the 1930s. The dashboard was made of cast aluminum. 

The car had a fin shape at the rear and a tow hook on the back, while the roof had Perspex panels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/1potumm/1927_rollsroyce_aerocar_20hp/

It turns out I posted this car in 2016 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/1927-boat-tail-rolls-royce-20hp-sports.html

now, here's a clever way to launch a glider. I bet there is something about this technique that isn't a good idea. Whatever. I neither have a glider, nor an American Underslung, or Thomas, to launch it from

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-937#post-13876982

Hispano Suiza, converted to a truck, with a rear wheel replaced by a winch drum, to launch gliders

https://www.facebook.com/hispanosuizasociety/posts/1721611374676920

from these photos, it seems like airplanes need a tractor like an oceanliner needs a tugboat

https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records?&facets=CATEGORIES%3a%22Wisconsin%20Historical%20Images%22%2cFacetSubject%3a%22Airplanes%22

they must have been having the time of their lives...

a supercharged hot rod... possibly for lots of sand dune use by the type of balloon tires. Odd small rims for a 1930s car, so, I'm guessing this was in the 50s, or early 60s by the the glider in the photo

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-114#post-13185180

1936 - Art Schultz and his Franklin PS-2 Secondary Glider at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.vintagegliderclub.org/permalink/3389437814408193/

I stumbled across a vintage glider facebook page

and that looks like a high dollar car, with the trunk lid removed, so it can tow a glider. That's rare.

I've only come across 2 cars that towed gliders, one was a Duesenberg that Howard Hughes used at his pilot training facility, it had a winch in the back

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/05/howard-hughes-had-this-duesenberg-body.html


the other was this Rolls Royce

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/1927-boat-tail-rolls-royce-20hp-sports.html

I have also posted about P38s and a C47 towing gliders into submarine pens, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-amazing-scoreboard.html 

and horses at a ranch in California towing a glider into flight.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-dont-think-ive-ever-heard-of-horses.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.vintagegliderclub.org/permalink/3410499555635352/