A rocket-powered jetbike will attempt to break speeds of 400mph and smash the two-wheeled land speed record later this year
If sticking a jet motor on a four wheeled vehicle is crazy, just imagine what sort of lunacy is needed to do the same to a two wheeler.
Source: Jet Reaction is a 400mph two-wheeled rocket bike (Wired UK)
One of my long list of ideas for models to build was a dry lake speedster based on a V1 flying bomb- take the wings off, make a simple chassis and fit wheels. It’s on hold, along with all my other big model projects.
This guy built something that practically is that project, but in real life.
Source: You Can Buy This Bonkers Jet Car for Just $30K | WIRED
I’m a bit of an odd Green, because this was my birthday day out (a day early). Usually you’d have to drive to the location of a car show, which is tricky when you don’t have a car, so to be able to walk to this one was pleasant. There were some really nice cars and bikes present, and a few trucks decorated with film inspired murals that bordered on kitsch. They weren’t too tightly packed, which gave me plenty of room to get some nice shots, but it felt a bit sparse. A little bit of a let down, for what I paid, but I got some neat pictures.
A couple of cars looked familiar.
I’m pretty sure this….
Is this.
And this is a beast I passed a few times on the ride to work.
The full gallery is below.
Despite everything, I still watch Top Gear. But I’d rather see something more like this than their increasingly dumb (and always destined to fail in clumsily foreshadowed ways) challenges. Let’s see people who know what they’re doing, doing things they’re certain they shouldn’t.
And so did the builder of this car it would seem. It’s very retro, though I think the metalflake paint has been augmented with the colour shift stuff found on TVRs (and Nissan Micras, for some reason).
I doubt it goes to many shows in Germany.
It makes me want to buy some old issues of Custom Car or Street Machine.
Most o0f the pictures I took at the indoor classic car show on Sunday are quite noisy because I didn’t use the flash or think to go to full manual and tinker with ISO, aperture etc.. However, there are a few of them in this Flickr set.
Another image from Butch Pate’s Fotki galleries, which gave us the hot rodded prison bus last week. A Mk2 Jaguar dragster (or possibly even Pro Street car, it has the headlamps and indicators as a nod to street legality, and it looks like there’s a number plate on the rear and the Oklahoma equivalent of a tax disc in the window). I can’t imagine Morse piloting this through the sleepy country roads around Oxford. Unless he really needed to get to the pub, which was a quarter of a mile away, in about 12 seconds.
Hot rod modellers, or builders, looking for inspiration should definitely check out some of the machinery which turns up at Billetproof shows. A lot of it straddles the old genius/insane line then bleeds the air bags and sits on it defiantly. What can I say, I want a lowrider Rolls.
The Woodruff Special, awesome meets silly. via Jalopnik
I linked to the full size bike designs of Olli Erkilla on Two Wheels Good. But if you look at his website you’ll find lots of other cool stuff. The Digital Art section has lots of cool customs, mostly based on the good old 2CV. I’m a fan of the Traction Avant coupe shown above, and I have an old Matchbox kit I can make up like it.
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This professional customising shop has build photos of many of its projects online. If you know how it’s done in real life you can better replicate it in scale.
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The Jalopy Journal is an online car magazine specialising in more traditional rods and customs. It also has a busy forum for you to dive into, so you shouldn’t be lacking inspiration.
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