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Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2011
Check out Damien's website http://www.nooneridesforfree.com it's dedicated to vans, but he posts some other cool stuff like this too!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Mix of old and new, a 440 six pack lift off fiberglass hood... with a modern prop rod
0 comments Posted by korekore at 1:27 PM
First time I've seen anyone do this, pretty good idea so long as they don't leave it up too long in the hot sun. It might warp. Better this hood prop than the hood hinges with springs, they bowed the hoods along the middle with the springs trying to push them up constantly
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Innovative and inventive rear wheel design for broadsliding
0 comments Posted by korekore at 8:04 PM
Thursday, April 14, 2011
It's so cool when the rat rods have rare cans for the radiator overflow or to house the ingnition coil 
I like the military fuse panel, or maybe they are small knife switches, but it's a cool addition 
Monday, April 4, 2011
Tom Cobbs 1929 roadster, DeSoto grill, fantastic soldered copper tube fuel lines at the carbs
0 comments Posted by korekore at 9:14 PM
trivia I read and posted was that the first supercharged V8 was a factory experiment 285 cu in that went into this, or another, Tom Cobbs dry lakebeds race carWednesday, March 30, 2011
The restoration is remarkable, but the concept used in this construction is astonishing and innovative. Brilliant really, Walter Christie was a gifted engineer, and made the first front wheel drive car, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-front-wheel-drive-car-1904.html and raced it in 1905 in the Vanderbilt Cup. But getting back to the steam pumper... Christie didn't get in over his head and make the existing tech obsolete, he made it better. You may have realized that Microsoft is the world's top software company because it makes it's Windows better, not obsolete, and this made Bill Gates the world's richest man... improvements, not obsolescence.
Like I was saying, Walter looked at what needed to be improved, and took the opportunity to make horse drawn fire steam pumpers self propelled once they were equipped with his front wheel drive units instead of horses. Horses were already 10 years into the age of the car, and the writing was on the wall.
Fire department equipment is really expensive, and Walter focused on the biggest fire departments on the East Coast to contract with to improve the existing equipment to speed up the delivery of equipment to fires. Notice in the below photo that the front and back have little in common
To easily compare this to the horse drawn model, just click on this link and see it from my gallery http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/san-diego-firehouse-museum_11.html last month of the steam pumper in the San Diego Fire House Museum: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXpbJ_4py3ZQD8N-lBNpJLCu0Y3CRbuXusU93B8OdFeW0wNQX-75bMyZXqGc6hd0pimjK9eSc4zoR-zW5wnskGKoIvvuxjHSjuk-SZnZzTnXet3THz6E3NIrhV9vZIvcBbEfLnnrJI60/s1600/DSC_0055.JPG 
This is just a short gallery, for a better one, and a full write up on the Christie company and it's founder: http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/03/1913-christie-fire-engine.html Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Diplock's Pedrail. What a name! Somebody should call their band this name.
0 comments Posted by korekore at 9:28 PM
If it had caught on, we'd still know about it, but it is a interesting idea for rough terrain, maybe rocky terrain. Reminds me immediately of these other two unusual ideas in rim/wheel design http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/justacargal-found-most-unusual.htmlFound on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Justacargal found a most unusual prototype rim and tire replacement made of springs
0 comments Posted by korekore at 5:08 PM
and reminded me of the next photo that I've never learned exactly what is was originally.. .but they look similar
Monday, February 28, 2011
Brilliant, immediate unstoppable traction in mud, also known as good horse sense, and farmer magic
0 comments Posted by korekore at 8:41 PMNow this, in my opinion, is effing brilliant. It really no-shit works, and like nothing else possibly could to add traction that can't be stopped.
From http://thereifixedit.failblog.org
The website of "Stupid things people do to fix stuff" ThereiFixedit.failblog.com
0 comments Posted by korekore at 7:23 PM
Found in the first car of some young highschooler I bet... old cars didn't have cup holders I'm thinking... I never had anything made from 1973 to 1989, so I don't know. They aren't in my zone of interest.
I'm betting someone ends up in the emergency room
Sheesh these are lazy kids, is there anyone reading this that didn't put in years mowing lawns as a kid, before riding lawnmovers, self-propelled lawnmovers, and you think these kids could really use some time pushing a lawnmower?
real bad decisions caught on camera and shared with the rest of us to warn us of stupid ideas http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/Saturday, February 26, 2011
evolved from Von Dutch's 2 stroke pogo stick, the Hop Rod... dangerous powered pogo
0 comments Posted by korekore at 5:15 PM
This is the first time I've seen one in person. It looks unused because it probably is virtually unridden. These things have hurt people, and the only riders that I've seen (on youtube) successfully not get thrown have been skateboarders and stunt mento see Von Dutch's design: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-stroke-pogo-stick-and-nitro-roller.html
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Found on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/06/ed-roths.html
I can't find anything else on the internet about it, but if you are interested in another unheard of Roth creation, the "Rubber Ducky" see a full page about it here:
http://www.ratfink.org/roths_rubber_ducky/index.html
Saturday, February 19, 2011
check out the coolest futuristic designer ( he did the new Tron vehicles ) http://www.danielsimon.net/artdata/mopped/mopped.html 
In the case that you don't click on the above for he full size version to read what it says, it is Acme fix it service
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