Pictures of decently Modified cars [Vol. 2]
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Any chance of reading the thread title and popping the tat directly in here...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Crafty_ said:
king of customs ? barris is spinning in his grave...
Yeah he created things like
said:
This car is a ground effects machine and rides on a five inch cushion of air and can run on land or water, has no wheels, transmission or rear end. Plus, no frictional moving parts. Air is drawn in through the front and rear openings into the open plenum chamber with outlets through a combination of peripheral jet inserts. Four inch polyethylene circular skirt is installed on the lower portion of the body. Frame construction is of 3/4 inch alloy round tubing and the dimensions are 12′ long, 6′ wide, and 30″ high. Stabilizer fins has an 8' 7" wingspan, plus 53" high. All panels are hand formed from 040 half hard aluminum, by Jack Sutton. Power is two jet aircraft starter motors 24 volt D.C., 4 horse power that turns 40,000 rpm at 300 amps. This is reduced 8 to 1 to absorb the amount of load combination of horsepower. Balanced 20 inches cast aluminum fans push 11,800 C.I.M. free flow & under ₖ″ static water pressure has 7,600 C.I.M., dry weight of the car is 422 pounds including all the accessories. Movement is obtained by a revolving jet nozzle which has an air thrust to the right, left, forward, reverse and stop. Top is vacuum formed by plastic dynamics over a male mold using 100,000 butyrate tinted plastic scoop on the top houses a penta prism rear view mirror which can be seen from the inside of the cab. The headlight is a curved reflective flourescent triple tubes which throws out a clear even light over 100 feet in the front and has no glare on the approaching vehicles. Frys plastic of LA has ⅛″ red translucent plastic with a reflective backing insert, in the complete rear fin taillight assembly.
They've wrapped a PorscheCan this be included?
Started as this:
Then went to this:
Now looking like this:
Thread: http://www.mechanicalplanet.com/forum/showthread.p...
Fantastic IMO. I now want a motorised picnic table
Started as this:
Then went to this:
Now looking like this:
Thread: http://www.mechanicalplanet.com/forum/showthread.p...
Fantastic IMO. I now want a motorised picnic table
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