Retro Cool
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Starlings75's vid reminded me of the Tucker, and while researching it, I ran across this:
The man who built in also worked with Tucker on his car. Here's a link to more information:
http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Norman_Timbs%27_Buick_Special
I was just thinking how straightforward it would be to use a Volks bus chassis with a few mods, fiberglass body some louvers in the rear deck for cooling, hmmm ...
Cheers.
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@unknownuser said:
I relate on a very personal level to big slow lumbering objects that are mostly gas
Well put, mr. H., well put.
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Our masspoduced streamlined Albatros jet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_L-39_Albatros
history
This one belongs to Mr Elon Musk
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@unknownuser said:
Leyat was a French automobile manufacturer established in 1919. Its first model was called Hélica, also known as ‘The plane without wings’. The vehicle was powered by a giant propeller. In 1927, a Hélica reached the speed of 106 mph. Between 1919 and 1925, Leyat managed to sell 30 vehicles.
What, before they started chopping people to bits on the motorway? I still like it though.
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Czechoslovak streamlined steam locomotive 386.001
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" Royal Blue" is on the right
"Coronation Scot" is on the left
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I love that Hélica, Eric. It looks like the love-child of a swamp boat and Citroen 2CV.
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Not sure if this qualifies as Retro but these images are pretty cool.
@unknownuser said:
Have you ever wanted to walk across the bottom of the River, Lake or Ocean to see all the ships that have sunk? Well....
The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest saline body of water. It has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. And now it's almost gone leaving a desert full of old shipwrecks.
And it had already been starved of nearly 30yrs of water by 1989.
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Those old trains are cool.
Some of my favorites are the high Art Deco steam locomotives.
The PRR S1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRR_S1
20th Century Limited:
I sense another modeling project to be added to my list!
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I'm loving this thread!
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I haven't seen any of these but they really look retro .
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reminds me of these. .. The busses of Malta.
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How 'bout cars of Cuba:
http://jewishcuba.org/autos/ -
in Cuba. . .those are new cars. . .
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The restored GM Futureliner.
And then a cool 3D model by Andrea Porcu done with Cinema 4D
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How about a rare one? The Mohs Ostentatiene Opera Sedan.
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Aero 50 Dynamik (1939)
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Tatra 903 (futuretro concept) - designer Mike Jelinek
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Eric,
I saw this futureliner sell on TV a while back. Now thats an expensive bus.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1307&aid=53&pop=0
Scott
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@unknownuser said:
The Phantom Corsair is a six-passenger coupé prototype automobile built in 1938. Designer Rust Heinz planned to put the car into limited production. However, Heinz’s death in a car accident in July 1939 ended those plans, leaving the prototype Corsair as the only one ever built.
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