Strange Vehicles.

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  1. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    I wonder how the Bonneville Salt Flats are still flat!

    Yes, I do remember something about this in Popular Mechanics back in the Cretacic I belong in. Apparently some guys still like those :)

    Read this! (before I am accused of extensive copy/paste work with no reference, wink wink, nudge nudge :lol: ) *
    IN 2007, the belly-tank Lakester was offered for sale at the Gooding & Company auction held in Pebble Beach, CA. It was estimated to sell for $450,000 - $600,000. It is a very successful land-speed racer that achieved a Record on its inaugural debut. It was the Fastest SCTA Lakes Racer of the Season from 1951 to 1955, and again in 1959. It set records at Bonneville in 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1962. It is the Fastest Belly-Tank Lakester ever created, having achieved a two-way run of 243.438 mph.

    This aerodynamic WWII-surplus tanker is a big piece of history; being offered for sale at auction represented a rare opportunity and thus, the half-million dollar estimate was appropriate. As the gavel fell for the third and final time, the lot had been sold. The estimates had not been achieved, yet a high bid of $440,000 including buyer's premium, was enough to sell the lot.
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    * For the Bootless and Unhorse, see this
     
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  2. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Good stuff Za, that car would've been a nice candidate for the 'Name that Plane' thread...
     
  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Another rocket bike.
    Fritz von Opel's 'Monster'
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    From a fine blog, packed with many unusual two-wheelers:
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  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  5. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

  6. Smudger Jnr

    Smudger Jnr Our Man in Berlin

    It looks like an armoured Land Zeppelin!

    Regards
    Tom
     
  7. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I noticed there was already some strange aircraft in this thread. I found this one last night.
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    Looking at it again....Is someone taking the pee with a photoshop :lol:
     
  8. kfz

    kfz Very Senior Member

    defo
     
  9. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    The sound locator in operating position.
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    Not quite a vehicle.
     
  10. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  11. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    Drew, that's a Lysander P.12. It was built to test-fly the Delanne tandem wing configuration in an attempt to sort a centre-of-gravity problem that had arisen when a turret was fitted behind the trailing-edge of a wing. The turret was a weighted mockup. That's one of very few pics extant of the P.12, from July 1941. I've yet to see a reason given why they wanted a turret on a Lysander of all things! For some strange reason it didn't make it beyond the design stage; it might have been because it was shi....
     
  12. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Nice OSS film on the Weasel, but perhaps more interesting for those intrigued by obscurities the first part is footage of a variety of snow vehicles, from Screw-drive to the Aerocar & swamp buggy. Really nice concentration of oddballs in action.
    OSS Briefing Film - The Weasel

    (The parachute dropped Weasel 9 minutes in is faintly alarming...)
     
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  13. Stig O'Tracy

    Stig O'Tracy Senior Member

    Drew, that's a Lysander P.12. It was built to test-fly the Delanne tandem wing configuration in an attempt to sort a centre-of-gravity problem that had arisen when a turret was fitted behind the trailing-edge of a wing. The turret was a weighted mockup. That's one of very few pics extant of the P.12, from July 1941. I've yet to see a reason given why they wanted a turret on a Lysander of all things! For some strange reason it didn't make it beyond the design stage; it might have been because it was shi....

    I have a coffee table book at home called something like "Strange Aircraft" and it has a page about the Lysander abortion. This book claims that it's role was to fly the length of the invasion beaches, strafing enemy positions with the four gunned tail turret.
     
  14. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    Stig, I think that's someone putting the cart before the horse :) That explanation would have made more sense if it was some sort of British Stuka we were looking at. In the end they did pretty well with the same boring old aircraft types...!
     
  15. DoctorD

    DoctorD WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Hee are a few that equipped 2nd Tactical Air Force Mobile Radar Units in Normandy. They were even stranger when they nodded, or rotated (especially if you were inside them with the access door closed):mellow:
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  16. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Very nice Les - Strange indeed!
    Something of a technical improvement over the sound-based listening devices though (like post #149).
     
  17. Noel Burgess

    Noel Burgess Senior Member

    RE the 2TAF radar vehicles - Hadn't realised that the cabs were demountable - I had always assumed that they had a "soft top" cab. Also I have never seen the type in the first photograph before - could you give some more details on this one please.
    Noel
     
  18. DoctorD

    DoctorD WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Noel
    They didn't travel on the road like that, of course, the paraphenalia had to be assembled after demounting the cab. Having been debarred from Radar Engineering training due to defective colour vision, I'm no expert on the 50centimetre aerial array - except to vouch for the state of alarm I experienced in once looking out from the guts of one of them to find the world moving gently by, when somebody decided to test the selsyn. Luckily they weren't transmitting! :lol:
    Les
     
  19. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Just stumbled across this beautiful example of the bodymakers art. Postmans Pat's mail van from 1935. A streamlined Morris 30cwt specially produced for the air-mail service, used in conjunction with separate blue pillar boxes.

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    Have you got one like this Owen?

    Some very 'of the period' footage here.

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    more info here too

    Royal Air Mail vehicles &mdash; The British Postal Museum and Archive




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  20. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Some nice footage of the T28/95 actually rumbling about:



    Not sure I've ever seen it moving before.
    Sadly, no film of it towing it's extra tracks behind...
     
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