Posts Tagged ‘car’

Ghetto Limo Cobbled Together

This limo is G to the H to the E to the double T to the O. Cobbled together from over 2000 parts, this limo is 36 feet long and took 500 hours to make. I guarantee if you show up at your prom in this thing you will NOT be getting any action that night. I think I just gave worried parents of teenagers a great idea- “Son, I’ll pay for the limo and make all the arrangements”.

In actuality this limousine has no engine and was created by a movie prop company for Nissan to show their support for the UK’s clunker car trade-in program.

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Combination of Supercar and Superbike

This is by far the weirdest diy i ever seen. The combination of Supercar and Superbike. I wonder is the bike the one controlling the direction or is the car steering wheel responsible for it? This DIY project done by Frenchman François Knorreck, took him over a 10 year span in which he spent over 10,000 hours building it from the frame up. The combining of a car and a bike definitely involve some tricky engineering to balance it properly.

There are a total of 3 exhaust pipes. The hubs and brakes come from a VW Golf GTI, the wheels are from an Audi 80, headlights and blinkers came from BMW and Renault cars, the bike’s headlight comes from a Kawasaki 1000 RX bike, the tail lights from a Citroën Xantia car and that’s a 3CL motorcycle used. The bodywork was made from 63 custom molds.

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Batman Golf Cart

Golf is getting more and more popular these days. But the design of golf cart do not seem to have much changes. This just happens to have been created by a Warner Bros employee who works in LA.  This batman golf cart definitely feel more robust and fast as compare to the old type of golf cart. Hopefully his creation will soon be a part of the tour of the studio, at least it should be added.  There is no current tutorial or any hint on how this was made.  This is just a picture that someone captured while on the studio grounds, so there really isn’t much information at all to go with it.

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CarPuchino: The Coffee Powered Car

It’s the world’s first coffee powered car! The Car-Puchine was created by BBC1’s Bang Goes the Theory program out of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco. Surprisingly the car can hit up to 60mph.

It takes a little over half a pound of coffee for every mile driven or about 56 espressos per mile (how many frappes per mile is that? about the same?). Cheap coffee costs around $5 per pound, so we’re talking about $10/mile. By comparison at $3/gallon for gas and 25mpg, that’s about 12 cents per mile. And lets hope you don’t want to fill up on Starbucks premium roast…forget about it.

Of course that doesn’t factor in having to stop every 40 miles to add in more coffee grinds and then every 60 miles to change the coffee filters. I’m going to assume you are buying pre-ground coffee and not grinding your own beans, cause that would be just silly. But at least the car probably smells fantastic. You can make back some of that extra cost by saving on car air fresheners and of course coffee breaks.

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Homemade Chinese Lamborghini

A 25 year-old Chinese mechanic decided to build one Lamborghini himself since it too expensive too own one. All together the parts and material only cost him $3K and the finished product is capable of reaching a top speed of 60-90 mph. Hope Lamborghini people are aware of this Chinese man and recruit him to be part of their design team.

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