Sweet rides
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Pyrrho
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Re: Sweet rides
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Witness
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ceptimus
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Re: Sweet rides
Rear/mid engined front wheel drive. I don't remember ever seeing that arrangement before, except on a dumper. Three wheeler too!
Looks like it may be unstable at speed, in a crosswind.
Looks like it may be unstable at speed, in a crosswind.
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Pyrrho
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Re: Sweet rides
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Pyrrho
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Re: Sweet rides
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Witness
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Re: Sweet rides
1963 Chrysler Turbine
Call it an early alternative-fuel vehicle. The 1963 Chrysler Turbine was powered by a pair of turbines, rather than a traditional internal combustion engine. It could run on anything from JP-4 jet fuel to perfume. Each of the 200 two-door coupes made was finished in Turbine Bronze paint.
Its turbine powerplants provided 130-horsepower and an astonishing 450 pound-feet of torque.
Instead of selling the car, Chrysler lent the 200 vehicles to hand-picked families for testing. Only nine survive today, according to Chrysler, and five are driveable. The technology was never used in a production model sold in dealerships.
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ceptimus
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Re: Sweet rides
One thing it couldn't run on (without damaging itself) was leaded gasoline - and you couldn't buy unleaded at filling stations in 1963. It would run okay on diesel, but that wasn't available at normal car filling stations in the USA in 1963 either.
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Re: Sweet rides
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Witness
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