Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

An XS 650 YZ Hybrid.

I absolutely love this bike. Like a DR650 only with even more torque!!




Sunday, 6 February 2011

A quick look at the Wally Parks motorsports museum

I've got no idea what a mini dualie tractor is doing here. the famous TV Tommy Ivo t bucket with the one of a kind Von Dutch signature, I don't believe he signed anything else this way with the feet Billy Gibbons Mexican Blackbird , last year in the GNRS http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mexican-blackbird-t-bird-that-finally.html

Unusual custom cycle,

found on http://grinderpreacher.blogspot.com/2011/01/motorcycho-sekis.html anyone know anything about it? LEt me know, I'd like to learn or see more

Thursday, 27 January 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, 20 January 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 The standard steering wheel has been replaced by two 5-inch, wrist-operated dials, that the promo claims frees up knee room, improves visibility and makes parking easier.Skip the first 45 seconds and the male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 uselessFound on http

Wednesday, 19 January 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

Tuesday, 11 January 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.from http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/04/classic-volkswagen-vanswell-ti.html

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. from http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/03/awesome-ancient-aussie-renard.html#more

Sunday, 9 January 2011

2nd use for a cement mixer, street washer

from http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/

drag racing Caddy hearse, 2007, wet track

found on http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/chat/post-random-pic-thread-7157/page76

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Thursday, 6 January 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

Tuesday, 4 January 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 feethttp://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htmLevi LaVallee went 361 feet on a

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