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

Sunday, February 27, 2011

the "NeverWas Haul" is the name of this vehicle at Burning Man

In the above the cow catcher is missing All three of these were from different sites, and I've posted two of them before, but never together. The middle one is new to me, and from http://megamoto.tumblr.com

Shelby Comet. Never heard of that, have you? Did you hear of the Shelby Europa? 14 made

Shelby Europa were just getting started by Claude Dubois, who raced a Ford of Antwerp Shelby Gt 350 in Spa in 1967. They came directly from Ford as semi-finished and completed by Dubois. Now it was not very many, 1971 and 72 made a total of just 14 pieces, including two convertibles.There are eight survivors, three of were in Sweden, then Norway, then to Finland.Well, so was there a special

World War one carrier pidgeon transport trucks

top one from http://svammelsurium.blogg.se bottom one from http://megamoto.tumblr.com

1922 touring body by Smith & Waddington in Sydney, Australia ... real unusual, it's called a charabanc

This is built on a truck chassis from White vintage 1922 and the huge body built by Smith & Waddington in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia. But this body type is called a Charabanc, the same name is also used for buses with open bodywork that was common at this time. This White charabanc had room for 15 people and had been ordered by Mr Day. He used it for New South Wales Tourist Bureau excursions

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Tucker's 2nd try (The Carioca) was from a De Sakhnoffsky design, and potentially would have been made in Brazil

cover illustration of the Carioca from Dec. 1955 Car Life magazine found on aldenjewell's Flikr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/3516254868/ read all about it: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Tucker_Carioca or check out the project at Rob Ida: http://www.robidaconcepts.com/carioca.html

Friday, February 18, 2011

Here's another car I'd never heard of, the "Chinese Eye" 1965 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud

Read about it http://www.automobilesdeluxe.tv/1965-rolls-royce-silver-cloud-chinese-eye-drophead-coupe-and-its-for-sale/ but it doesn't say if this was a coachbuilt custom, or a factory design

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Honda Odyssey + BMW 3-Series

Minivan Honda

The imagination of the Japanese fans of tuning has been directed this time on a minivan for home market which has found lines of appearance of a German sedan.

BMW + Odyssey

Court on everything, "native" forward part Honda Odyssey has seemed to the owner insufficiently expressively, there have been therefore begun searches of the donor for change. In a role of that has acted BMW 3-Series in body E92. It is possible to judge result on the presented photos, and at the same time to notice and other completions to which the family minivan has undergone.

Honda Odyssey

Minivan Honda Odyssey

Interior minivan Honda

Interior Odyssey

Honda Odyssey (minivan)

Disorder of wheels differs simply monstrous negative value, wide tyres on expensive carbon disks supplement a picture.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Suzuki has presented a hybrid Swift

Suzuki Swift

Company Suzuki has shown on a motor show in Tokyo a conceptual hybrid of hatchback Swift.

Swift for the Yankee

The car addressed to inhabitants of large cities, passing about 20 km a day, equip with the 0,6-l petrol engine, the electromotor and li-ionic batteries. At a discharge of batteries the petrol motor from which the generator recharging accumulators eats on the move joins. Also batteries can be charged from the usual socket. In mass production the manufacturer yet does not inform on plans of start of cars.

Premiere Swift on the Tokyo motor show

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Acura has presented competitor for BMW X6 and Porsche Cayenne

Acura ZDX

Mark Acura which is a luxury brand of company Honda, has officially presented the sports crossover which has received name ZDX.

2011 Acura ZDX

AcuraThis novelty differs unusual design of a body with a sloping roof in style of cars with a body coupe, and by the nearest competitors to the given mark are designated BMW X6 and Porsche Cayenne.

New model Acura is equipped with 3,7-litre petrol engine V6 power of 300 horsepowers and six-step "automatic machine". Besides, the sports crossover has received system of full drive SH-AWD (it's used on big sedan Honda Legend).

Novelty dynamic characteristics yet are not informed. It's not known also, whether will appear in modelling number Acura ZDX of the version with other power-plants.

The new crossover will be equipped with navigating system with voice-activated control, system of the "circular" review (for a parking) with tracking function behind "dead zones", and also the adaptive cruise-control. The prices for a novelty and occurrence terms on sale yet are not informed.

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