Showing posts with label snowmobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowmobile. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Larry Shinoda designed vehicles

With Gurney Westlake 520hp V8 engine, it was capable of 150mph. The original design for this was done on the napkins at a hamburger restaurant.

Econoline ‘Kilimanjaro’ safari van, 1969 show car. Front wheel drive

1969 Ford Mach II design

1969 car show Torino Super Cobra front and back

Thursday, January 21, 2010

10 dollars, junk laying around, welding and time.

A couple guys who work as snowmobile mechanics took the stuff that had been laying around the shop and made this .... applause! http://www.automotto.org/entry/snowmobile-mechanics-turn-station-junk-into-snowmobile-chopper/

Friday, October 30, 2009

Get ready before the snow falls, make a snow motor from an old tractor or Model T

above: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229248&showall=1

One of these is at the Heidrick Agriculture Museum and History Center / 1962 Hays Lane / Woodland, California 95776


Images from http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtr16/trips.htm

Watch the video if this in deep snow, and staying on top like it can levitate or something

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Tucker Snow Cat, the pioneering vehicle of the Trans Antarctic Expedition






Not exactly the same model as the one in the publicity shot below



For a you tube video of some in action in the Antarctic, crossing and getting stuck in the crevass... and how they got out of it, see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/trans-antarctic-expedition-getting.html
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