Answers are here after the link: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/tokyo-plates-on-56-nomad-bitchin-ride.html
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Challenging Mopar trivia masters, what unusual about this 1969 Dart?
Answers are here after the link: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/tokyo-plates-on-56-nomad-bitchin-ride.html
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Innovation in steering wheel design, that never went into production... the "Wrist Twist" from Mercury
At Mercury, engineer Bob Rumm produced this one-off 1965 Mercury Park Lane convertible with so-called "wrist-twist" steering controls. The standard steering wheel has been replaced by two 5-inch, wrist-operated dials, that the promo claims frees up knee room, improves visibility and makes parking easier.
Skip the first 45 seconds and the male chauvenist attitude, they are both useless
Skip the first 45 seconds and the male chauvenist attitude, they are both useless
Found on http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-they-thinking-mercurys-wrist.html
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
1970 concept design of a Lambo Muira Le Mans was just found in Indiana at an estate sale
Read about it and seee the whole gallery of the as found (horrible) condition at http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2011/01/ebay-find-luigi-colanis-1970.html
1922 Mitchell F 50
Click on the image for the full size, the writing on the car is a self promotion campaign to advertise the positive attributes of the Mitchell car. Awesome sphinx statue in the backgroundfound on the hamb http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585
Monday, January 17, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
ever seen VW dump trucks?
I'm thinking that the obvious problem is too much weight over the rear axle, and if they had too heavy a load getting dumped, it might tip this over backwards.
Renard Daimler Road Train - built for the world road transport market in the early 1900's
This probably qualifies as the first ever semi tractor trailer. Monday, January 10, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 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.
Looks like the back wheels also steer
Looks like water cannons on top, and armor covering the back
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.
Mighty powerful little trailer mover
Yuck, very ugly, but does it have this design because that allows it to go under the trailers for reversing the trailer into a loading dock?
Best advertising on a trailer rig I've seen in a while
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Snowmobiles can fly. Anything that goes farther than the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk is really flying
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.
Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm
Levi LaVallee went 361 feet on a snowmobile
From http://autozine.com.br/
Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm
Levi LaVallee went 361 feet on a snowmobile
From http://autozine.com.br/
24 butterflies, 8 blowers, and makes 3400 hp worth of Nitrous powered grin... Mike Harrah's Detroit Diesel, does it make you feel a bit awed?
180 photo gallery of the intake and engine going together here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/learaviator/sets/72157623774941005learned about it on http://www.autoblog.hu/videok/video_24_hengeres_dizelmotor.html
not much info on the www yet, but I did find that the guy is a millionaire real estate developer, and owns the biggest of the Blastolene cars (can't recall the name, it's the one with the PT boat Packard engine) and this titan engine is going into a Peterbuilt 359
