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Elviscat posted:Yeah, 'cause shoe's are what they bear theclosest resemblance to... Z4MC most certainly does not look like a 'clownshoe'.  Edit: content 
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DropShadow posted:His exact words were "Yeah, my dad's boss has one. Keeps it at his house in Germany because it's not road legal here." To be fair he probably thought it was just a 959.
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Justin's Timberlake's Bringing Sexy Back just started playing in my head.
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It has the face of a fish.
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El Scotch posted:It has the face of a fish. The sexiest fish
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reminds me of the jag C-X75 only more catfish.
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El Scotch posted:It has the face of a fish. Fish is fine, fish is good. I'm just glad to see a concept car in 2014 without angles(TM)
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An angry fish.
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El Scotch posted:It has the face of a fish. Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7zkbR6ja0 video of a monster truck trying its hardest to destroy itself, and only just succeeding. It is awesome. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Linedance posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7zkbR6ja0 I saw that run live, for some reason Orlando always seems to have standout freestyle runs like that. This one was an absolute gutbuster to see live. Truck comes out from the pits, guns it, hits the first jump full speed, and... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vDHHwn6cg 
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It's the 1950s. You're the United States Army. You want to find ways of handling logistics in remote areas without having to build or depend on roads or railways. The obvious course is to pour development money into cargo airplanes, helicopters, and improvised landing strips. Haha no way idiot that's the Air Force's job. Here is the Army's solution to the wrong problem: LeTourneau Overland Train.      Built mostly from welded aluminum. Four 1,170 horsepower gas turbine engines, distributed throughout the train. All trailers were equipped with steerable wheels, controlled such that they all began steering at the same point where the control cab did, enabling the LeTourneau Overland Train to make ninety-degree turns. After an upgrade (replacing a 600-hp diesel engine with a turbine engine), the Overland Train had a 30-foot tall cab, with sleeping quarters for six, toilets, and a galley. The LeTourneau Overland Train had a length of 570 feet, a cargo capacity of 150 tons (hauled at 20 mph), a range of 350-400 miles at its full load (extendable with fuel trailers). After preliminary testing, it was given to the Army in 1962, and tested at the Yuma Proving Ground. It was tested under the name "Project OTTER" (for "Overland Train Terrain Evaluation Research"), and performed well, at which point it was abandoned because helicopters were better. The Army put it up for sale for $1.4 million, and nobody bought it, so everything except the control cab was sold for scrap. The control cab remains at Yuma today.
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I'm sure it's been posted here before, but that Overland Train reminds me of this crazy bastard: 55 feet long, 20 feet wide, 16 feet tall, and totally useless for its intended purpose!
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Fucknag posted:And to bring it back to AI, where the tires ended up (because it's apparently Monster Truck Day in AI today): the ~LeTourneau Overland Train~ is an automobile. guess what I was looking up when I learned about it
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T1g4h posted:I'm sure it's been posted here before, but that Overland Train reminds me of this crazy bastard: CANYONEROOOOOOOOOOOOO! canyoneeeeeeeeeeeerrrrroooooo
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The military is still trying to deliver supplies on four tires, except now it's self driving trucks with lidar and gps.
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88h88 posted:A render? Holy poo poo, you have to tell me where to get one.  I played the gently caress out of the games from that company when I was younger.
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Powershift posted:CANYONEROOOOOOOOOOOOO! canyoneeeeeeeeeeeerrrrroooooo It's forty feet long and twenty feet wide Twenty two tons of american pride CANYONEROOOOOOOO *whipcrack*
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this world deserved a war between nations with overland trains and nations with ekranoplans and we didn't get it we deserved it, and didn't get it, there is no God e- also when I was younger I thought GI Joe vehicles were real, when I was older I thought they weren't, and now that I'm fully old I've learned that GI Joe vehicles are, in fact, real
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Rorac posted:Holy poo poo, you have to tell me where to get one. The penny racer types are called 'Choro-Q' and are the pull back and go types, the RC ones are 'Q-steer' and both pop up from time to time on ebay. There's currently a set of Initial D ones, AE86 and an FD going for $10 with one day left and it comes with a larger drift FD and a toy AE86. I was gonna go for it but import from the US would've stung me. http://www.ebay.com/itm/INITIAL-D-R...=item2a41ca1934 Ebay also has the Tamiya versions which look so cool. Expensive though. The GC110 auction I'm looking at is on Yahoo auctions but they're massively annoying to buy from as getting a verified account if you're outside of Japan is a twat, luckily I have a friend who buys via another dude fairly often. There's currently the GC110, a couple of Hummers and a double pack of Back to the Future Deloreans from Universal Studios Japan on there. *edit: This joint has a few kinds in stock: http://www.japtou.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=327_329 Amazon US has some but they're going for $80+ in most cases. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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The dogs really complete this car. Gorgeous.
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Linedance posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7zkbR6ja0 I just have to say that my mind is blown. That driver has to be experiencing a cross between being in a paint can shaker and riding a bull, and yet still knows when to hit the gas to brake in order to keep the truck upright. Maybe it's because I've never really been 'into' monster trucks, but I watched that part at 1:30 like 5 times and I'm loving impressed. poo poo.
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Yeah, Tom Meents is pretty loving awesome as a driver. That being said, he's still no Dennis Anderson  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCQmljZXJuc
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T1g4h posted:Yeah, Tom Meents is pretty loving awesome as a driver. That being said, he's still no Dennis Anderson Differential brake discs glowing red  Edit: And shooting sparks, jesus christ
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Fun fact, part of the reason those brakes get so hot is due to the huge rotating inertia of those giant wheels and tires. They store so much energy they actually use them as flywheels for pitch control during jumps; if you watch, on a lot of big jumps they'll be nose up at first with the wheels turning, then they'll lock the brakes and the momentum gets transferred into the truck, rotating the nose down so they can land without breaking poo poo.
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Fucknag posted:Fun fact, part of the reason those brakes get so hot is due to the huge rotating inertia of those giant wheels and tires. They store so much energy they actually use them as flywheels for pitch control during jumps; if you watch, on a lot of big jumps they'll be nose up at first with the wheels turning, then they'll lock the brakes and the momentum gets transferred into the truck, rotating the nose down so they can land without breaking poo poo. Just like I do with my R/C-- but I don't even run my R/C truck as hard as in those videos. 
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angryhampster posted:
Dude's cars aren't for everyone but I particularly like this:  I really wanna get the exact fighting tiger for my car
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T1g4h posted:Yeah, Tom Meents is pretty loving awesome as a driver. That being said, he's still no Dennis Anderson This is metal as poo poo. How can you not enjoy this.
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jamal posted:Do they only have those two brakes for the whole truck or are there also wheel cylinders? Pretty sure they have wetbrakes at the wheel ends- most of the equipment they borrow the axles from uses that sort of brake. Wouldn't be surprised if those driveline brakes were just there for parking an/or specifically to make sparks and get all glowy and poo poo.
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Armchair Calvinist posted:Dude's cars aren't for everyone but I particularly like this: I'll take the rest of the car without the tiger... especially those rear window louvers 
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Tommychu posted:Pretty sure they have wetbrakes at the wheel ends- most of the equipment they borrow the axles from uses that sort of brake. So, those are basically the same as motorcycle wet clutches. Multiple alternating plates bathed in oil.
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Armchair Calvinist posted:Dude's cars aren't for everyone but I particularly like this: I would go one step further. 
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Cross posting from the D&D Middle East Thread (of all places) It's a homemade Kurdish Here's an article on more https://medium.com/war-is-boring/check-out-these-homemade-kurdish-tanks-86459f92e161
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