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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
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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
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Honda Odyssey + BMW 3-Series

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)
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Suzuki has presented a hybrid 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
2011 Acura ZDX
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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