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Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 6, 2016

something new in sidecars

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Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 6, 2016

I hope someone tells Rolls Royce prototype designers that tiny detail about streamlining the front tires... it changes the aero dymanics a lot when you turn them... aka the Stutz Blackhawk effect

Rolls Royce Motor Cars has unveiled a concept car that showcases what the firm thinks luxury vehicles might look like in 100 years' time. The "Vision Next 100" is a 5.9 metre-long zero-emission, self-driving car complete with an artificial intelligence virtual assistant and a silk sofa – but no steering wheel.

Keep in mind the following is a 360 degree video, pull it around

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rolls-royce-luxury-vision-future.html
http://www.gizmag.com/rolls-royce-concept-vision-next-100/43893/

The Stutz effect I mentioned in the title? That's due to what they learned when land speed racing on Daytona Beach with the Stutz Blackhawk.

At 220, it went barrel rolling... you simply can't change the aero at that speed without disastrous effect

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-info-was-with-this-streamliner-so-if.html

something I appreciate without ever hearing of one before... an Autocar with a WreckMaster

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=289

Kenny Powers and the river jumping, rocket powered, Lincoln

https://www.facebook.com/choppedrodandcustom/?fref=nf

https://www.facebook.com/groups/798838050138540/

The 1966 Monte Carlo Rally... looks like it was run by some corrupted nationalists from France who handed the win to the Citroen, for having the same headlights it disqualified all the British cars for, which were legal for the previous two years

10 British cars were all ruled out of the prizes for alleged infringements of complex regulations about the way their headlights dipped:
they used non-dipping single filament quartz iodine bulbs in their headlamps, in place of the standard double filament dipping glass bulbs, which are fitted to the series production version of each model sold to the public.

The 5th place car, a Citroen had the same headlight. It was given the win. Why? Well, the excuse is that the Citroen had that headlight optional at the factory, thus is was stock... and the British cars, though this was their 3rd year with these headlights, were not in compliance with the rules, which had been changed just prior to the race, and after the cars were accepted after their paperwork was entered.

According to new rules introduced at the end of previous year, any car entering the rally must come off a standard production line, with at least 5,000 cars being built to a similar specification.

The British cars were equipped with standard headlamps - but the only way of dipping them was to switch to non-standard fog lamps.

The confusion arose because the rally organizers initially said the race would be run under the old rules - and only announced the switch after entries had been accepted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2506000/2506863.stm

Thanks Steve R!

The Smoking Tire .com made a couple movies... and the poster grabbed my attention completely... "All Cars Go To Heaven" . About driving crappy cheap cars across the western states

A cheap car is better than no car, and to prove this point, we take 2 cheap cars and one Ford Model T across 819 miles of dusty, rocky, steep, ruthless Utah desert. No amount of rocks, scrapes, crashes, leaked fluids or lost wires will stand in our way. We think. All Cars Go to Heaven 2: Better Than a Horse is the second feature-length film