Saturday, January 08, 2011
1909 Babcock electric brougham... looks like a mechanized stage coach to me
Friday, January 07, 2011
Canadian colonization advertising vehicle... looking like a streetcar on a truck chassis
Seems the big wide open plains of the Candian west needed farmers, and they used this to spread the word. Just study that box of a body and let me know if it's anything but a one off single purpose built vehicle
from http://www.shorpy.com/
from http://www.shorpy.com/
Old tour bus, 1908
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Cool and unusual trucks found on Big Lorry Blog
An older semi in Brazil, and I like the grill, full length and looking like a 1940's car design
Cool.
all from http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog
Looks like the back wheels also steer
This and the last photo in this gallery are both 4 wheels under the cab.
It seems similar to an F.A.R. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/three-wheeled-tractor-trailer-rig.html but definitly not similar to the Scammell or the Tempo, so it seems there might have been another 3 wheel delivery that I haven't learned about yet.
Of the 12 futurliners built, 8 exist, and one is getting restored in Sweden, here is a dedicated website to it's 4 year, 10 million dollar, resto
the website is in Swedish, but no problem from Google to translate to your language, just switch to Google Chrome for a web browser, and put http://www.classicmotor.se/futurliner/ in the address bar, and once the page loads... the browser will pop up a small bar at the top of the page and ask you if you want it translated. Simple. I recommend switching to Google Chrome, because lately Windows has not worked at translating for me
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Bang Shift finds really cool drag racing, here's a trio of awesome
Hayden Proffitt and the funny car Rebel. Ya gotta hand it to anyone who looks at the brick aerodynamics and says they'll make it win.
EJ Potter, that madman
Turbo Stang, powered by a drag axle from Turbonique and this is the first time I've seen this photo.. awesome
For lots of dragracing photos and videos, go see the tremendous coverage at Bang Shift http://www.bangshift.com/blog/
Bigger hammer theory in practice, the building of Trabant cars in the 1980's
Skip the first 22 seconds, it's boring, after that they get to hammering for proper fitment
If you haven't heard of the bigger hammer theory, you aren't a submariner or a mechanic. The theory is this; if it doesn't work, hit it with a hammer (known in scientific circles as mechanical agitation (thank you XO Joachim) ) if it doesn't work after hitting it with a hammer, hit it with a bigger hammer. If it still doesn't work, replace it... it's broke.
video from http://autozine.com.br/video/tecnologia-alema-oriental
Damn, a Veyron running the Gumball, that's going to go through a lot of gas
From http://autozine.com.br/eventos/gumball-3000-2010-onde-os-ricos-batem-pega
When running full speed, the fuel lasts about 12 minutes, thats about 60 miles at about 250 mph, and few freeways are going to give that type of high speed opportunity, but this is a gas guzzling beast even if you half the speed (125mph) and double the distance and time before you have to fill up again.
When running full speed, the fuel lasts about 12 minutes, thats about 60 miles at about 250 mph, and few freeways are going to give that type of high speed opportunity, but this is a gas guzzling beast even if you half the speed (125mph) and double the distance and time before you have to fill up again.