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Re: This is the UGLIEST car ever!
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:19 pm
by Oli_88
scoobyh123 wrote:Same here - it's powered by a cordless drill according to the advert!
I mean this one;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KIT-CAR-CLASSIC-H ... 3f07586a3d
If that's what your cordless drills look like, I wouldn't want to bump into you in a dark alley!
Re: This is the UGLIEST car ever!
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:52 pm
by scoobyh123
If the youtube player is in 480p mode, i can see what you mean. In 360p mode, you can just see the wheels turning.
It's akin to the old spaghetti westerns when the wheels on the stagecoach seemed to be running backwards due to the frames per second of the recording camera. Also similar to how a stroboscopic timing light works - if the camcorder happens to have let's say 15fps and the wheels on the swingbin are turning 3 times a second and for arguments sake have 5 spokes, that's 15 spokes a second in the same place, giving the impression they are not moving. Granted the wheels have 7 spokes but i couldn't be bothered to work out the maths for that but i guess 21 fps with the wheel turning 3 times a second would work out the same.
Not quite sure if an Agros £9.99 cordless drill would have enough speed or power to propel one of those things along but i daresay an old wiper motor or 2 with a car battery mounted somewhere in the chassis would work quite well.
Re: This is the UGLIEST car ever!
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:23 pm
by DoloWIGHTY
Here's a pic of that thing in better days. It was built by Pete Farries in the 70's for Berger Paints and was called the 'Tin of Paint'. He also did the Doctor Whomobile.
Re: This is the UGLIEST car ever!
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:32 pm
by scoobyh123
Ah-ha!! Talking at cross purposes lol!! It's the swingbin racer that's powered by a cordless drill - though the 2 look scarily similar!!
Don't remember the Doctor Who-mobile but i do remember the Outspan Orange and Coke can cars built by Andy Saunders who also grafted a speedboat body onto a Reliant Regal/Robin chassis . . . . . . . . . .
Along the lines of strange looking tools, the last portable compressor i worked on was powered by a twin turbo Magirus Deutz V10 Diesel engine! It was portable honest - with a HIAB!!!
Re: This is the UGLIEST car ever!
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:46 pm
by Jon Tilson
Okay back to the real world of proper mingers I was remnded today of another utter abortion.
Yes lets hear it for the Yaris Verso...
I'm sure Mr Bellinger will be along to defend it soon...
Saw one in a sort of metallic Shite colour on the M4 today that lots of them seem to come in.
We must have a lunchtime pint in Mayfair sometime...
Jonners