Real life Tony Stark
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MagicalSeaOtter

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71 posts

210 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/real-life-tony-st...

One can only wonder what special items he had to save that he couldn't carry through the desert, but could still be transported home on a home made motorcycle.

Edited by MagicalSeaOtter on Friday 1st June 14:49

vescaegg

29,179 posts

191 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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This is awesome biggrin

DanDC5

19,833 posts

191 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Fair play to that man, I'd be taking a long slow walk to my own death.

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

254 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Actually quite easy to do - if i remember correctly the swingarms on the 2CV can be reversed very easily, hence why they are used on those 3-wheeler kits a lot.

Obviously still a great story and very hard to do with basic tools, but I doubt he'd have managed it if he was in a Renault 5...

bicycleshorts

1,939 posts

185 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Has he even put on a little kick stand?!

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The Nur

9,168 posts

209 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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The top two comments are quite good hehe

blindswelledrat

25,257 posts

256 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Laugh.
THe author of that article has obviously never seen Iron Man.
He says
bloke said:
He might not have Tony Stark’s vast wealth, but Emile Leray seems like he’s just as skilled a mechanic as Stark was when the chips are down
Not quite as I see it!
Imprisoned in a cave TOny Stark built a flying, bulletproof jet-powered robot with near-unlimited power out of spit and bits of his own face and cock.
Emile Leray built an engine on some wheels out of an engine he had and some wheels he had.
Not that good an analogy if you ask me.


Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 1st June 16:35

rohrl

8,984 posts

169 months

AJS-

15,366 posts

260 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Brilliant! I love stories like that.

I've never felt that calling the AA made me a hero, but changing a head gasket in the middle of the desert in Australia was the pinnacle of my DIY mechanic career, and now I feel like a rank amateur.

St. Anger

1,125 posts

205 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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blindswelledrat said:
Laugh.
THe author of that article has obviously never seen Iron Man.
He says
bloke said:
He might not have Tony Stark’s vast wealth, but Emile Leray seems like he’s just as skilled a mechanic as Stark was when the chips are down
Not quite as I see it!
Imprisoned in a cave TOny Stark built a flying, bulletproof jet-powered robot with near-unlimited power out of spit and bits of his own face and cock.
Emile Leray built an engine on some wheels out of an engine he had and some wheels he had.
Not that good an analogy if you ask me.


Edited by blindswelledrat on Friday 1st June 16:35
rofl

ceebmoj

1,899 posts

285 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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From the other thread

rohrl said:
Does he wear a lot of gold jewellery and was he part of a group of former soldiers who escaped from a maximum security military stockade having been convicted of a crime they didn't commit and who inhabit the Los Angeles underground?

Or, was it designed for him by a bespectacled German who had only previously designed model motorbikes?
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trickywoo

13,718 posts

254 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Would it be possible to look more French?


Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

266 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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trickywoo said:
Would it be possible to look more French?

Christ almighty. That's how to wipe out any points gained from the motorbike building thing.

Disastrous

10,202 posts

241 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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That's quite good but literally nothing at all like Iron Man/Tony Stark. If you MUST draw a film analogy it's a bit like that bloke out Sahara making a land yacht out of bits he already had.

But really the headline should be 'Poor Frenchman limps cobbled together stter home'

Brother D

4,354 posts

200 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Exactly how was the power from engine delivered to any wheel?

ceebmoj

1,899 posts

285 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Brother D said:
Exactly how was the power from engine delivered to any wheel?
Look's like a friction drive off the break drum

Zwolf

25,867 posts

230 months

Friday 1st June 2012
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Justayellowbadge said:
trickywoo said:
Would it be possible to look more French?

Christ almighty. That's how to wipe out any points gained from the motorbike building thing.
No peach cords or manbag though...

gtidriver

3,688 posts

211 months

Saturday 2nd June 2012
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Isn't it more the Ateam.

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

233 months

Saturday 2nd June 2012
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ceebmoj said:
Brother D said:
Exactly how was the power from engine delivered to any wheel?
Look's like a friction drive off the break drum
scratchchin

Not too sure about that.

To do so would mean that the rear wheel would be off tot he right by quite a bit and make it unrideable.

Like taking one rear wheel off of a trike.