Showing posts with label Hungarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungarian. Show all posts

Friday, November 14, 2025

the story of how a Mig drop tank went through a Peugeot


A decommissioned MiG-21 was bought by a private museum. Since it was in good condition and it was only about 65km from the base, they decided to tow it behind a tractor. 

Friday night, the police assisted and regulated the traffic... and suddenly from the other direction, a Hungarian hunter was returning from hunting, well-fueled with brandy. 

He suddenly saw too many police lights around him, panicked that they had him and he would lose his license, so he just stepped on the gas.... and if it weren't for that droptank, he would have managed to pass under the wing. 

Luckily, he didn't have his seatbelt on so when he saw it at the last second, he managed to throw himself into the passenger seat before the tank went through the steering wheel and the driver's seat

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

the galloping American horse with upturned tail that became the Ford Mustang emblem, was created by the Hungarian sculptor Károly Keresztes living in America, working for Ford Design Studio


The Mustang name first appeared on a 1962 concept called Mustang I, and the galloping horse was made up by designer Phil Clark.

the proportions of Clark’s logo were too tall to fit in the grille, so Ioccoca had design studio modeler Károly "Charles" Keresztes was told to make a new version for the Mustang II and the eventual production vehicle.


This inspired the founder of the Kaáli Auto-Motor Museum, to get a sculptor to create an unusual work of art from original parts.



The final result reproduces the dynamics of the Keresztes galloping horse with surprising lifelikeness, centered on the heart of the internal combustion engine, the piston, and was mostly made of old Ford Mustang parts during 400 hours of work. The sculptor was János Barta - Vaskalap Metal Art https://www.facebook.com/ironhatmetalart

Notice that the nostrils are wrenches