the bluebird CN7 was the last wheel driven vehicle to hold the world land speed record at 403mph
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If it has an engine and you think it's cool...
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the bluebird CN7 was the last wheel driven vehicle to hold the world land speed record at 403mph
following up on the theme of blue things named after birds i have a joke:
what's the difference between alex trebec and a mallard with a cold? .. one's a sick duck.... i forget the rest but this train (the mallard) is the fastest steam locomotive in the world (at 125.88mph).
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cool huh?
what's the difference between alex trebec and a mallard with a cold? .. one's a sick duck.... i forget the rest but this train (the mallard) is the fastest steam locomotive in the world (at 125.88mph).
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cool huh?
Well played, and I already posted the original Chaparral vacuum cleaner upthread.Here's another one of my favorite Jim Hall cars, the 2E:
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gotta love the chaparrals.. i have a poster of one of the 2Ds winning at the Nurburgring on my wall
actually... here it is (my poster is in color)
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Nice poster. Like many kids my age I had the Cox 1/24th scale slot car replica of the 2E, then a higher performance variant that I built the chassis for myself.
I got to race Sam Posey (Indy Car, TransAm, CanAm, F1 driver) with it one time at his mom's house, and Sam tried really persistently to buy it off me after I whipped him hard. That was actually kind of the beginning of my DIY electronics avocation.
A few Racing Jags...
C-Type:
D-Type:
Lightweight E-Type:
& the one that never did... XJ-13:
I guess that's what happens when you let an aircraft designer loose in a car factory
C-Type:
D-Type:
Lightweight E-Type:
& the one that never did... XJ-13:
I guess that's what happens when you let an aircraft designer loose in a car factory
Vought F4U Corsair
"The Vought F4U Corsair was developed early in 1938, at the request of the U.S. Navy. The idea was to design the smallest body compatible aircraft with the most powerful engine available. When it appeared over the Pacific Ocean waters in 1943, the Corsair was the most powerful naval aviation aircraft. It was the first U.S. single-engine fighter to exceed 400 m.p.h. Remembered for its W-shaped wings, it became feared by the Japanese Zeros pilots in the Pacific theatre alone, in the course of some 64,000 missions, Corsairs downed 2,140 enemy planes while only 189 Corsairs were lost a ratio unmatched in the history of air warfare."
(Source: World-War-2-Planes.com)
"The Vought F4U Corsair was developed early in 1938, at the request of the U.S. Navy. The idea was to design the smallest body compatible aircraft with the most powerful engine available. When it appeared over the Pacific Ocean waters in 1943, the Corsair was the most powerful naval aviation aircraft. It was the first U.S. single-engine fighter to exceed 400 m.p.h. Remembered for its W-shaped wings, it became feared by the Japanese Zeros pilots in the Pacific theatre alone, in the course of some 64,000 missions, Corsairs downed 2,140 enemy planes while only 189 Corsairs were lost a ratio unmatched in the history of air warfare."
(Source: World-War-2-Planes.com)
Alrighty then, what's this?
Or this:
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Your second one's a C-130 or maybe an AC-130.
Edit: I say NOT AC-130 due to the apparent absence of protruding radomes & guns.
Or this:
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Your second one's a C-130 or maybe an AC-130.
Edit: I say NOT AC-130 due to the apparent absence of protruding radomes & guns.
Alrighty then, what's this?
Your second one's a C-130 or maybe an AC-130.
Correct.
I don't know what yours is as I'm not a plane buff, but I recognise the odd one
Well... I can cheat and tell you it's a xb-15 which was an experimental bomber, but I don't like to cheat 
You should know this:
Late-model Junkers JU-87(probably JU-87G to be precise)Stuka.
Edit: You are of course correct on the XB-15. Now get my second one & give me another.
Edit: You are of course correct on the XB-15. Now get my second one & give me another.
I knew that was too easy.
I'm running out of planes that I know, I'll have to start googling obscure planes to test you with.
Like I said, I had to cheat to get that one and I've no idea about your other!
The pilot looks like he is saying "you want me to FLY this thing?"
No, he's thinking 'It's because I'm wearing loafers, isn't it?'
And the bomber is a B-52; I'm guessing an -H model. The cute little jet is a mcDonnell XF-85 Goblin, a parasite fighter intended to be stowed aboard a B-36 bomber for defense.
Edit: OH- and I don't know Maki's specifically, but I do know it's long, hard & full of seamen.
Howzabout it
Gar Wood's Miss America X
Four Packard V-12's
For a somewhat more restrained take on the same general concept:
Baby Bootlegger
Gold Cup winner in 1924 and 1925
Wright Typhoon (license built Hisso) V-8
Continuing the aircraft engine theme:
GeeBee R-2
99% accurate repro by Delmar Benjamin and Steve Wolf
Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr.
JRL Radial Chopper
Rotec R2800
This pic shows the bike about 80% complete
(yes, he eventually made up a guard for the primary)
Passinwind
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Howzabout it
Gar Wood's Miss America X
Four Packard V-12's
Sweet, that was one I was kinda looking for!
I'll see if I can get my friend to send me a pic or two of his Packard cars. We had a few hilarious adventures in one of 'em back in our gangsta-hippie days.
