By Robert Emslie
Look, if you’re going to be towing a trailer you’re going to be holding up traffic now and again. What the heck, you might as well do it with style.
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I bet he doesn’t go into the mountains often with that rig. Either that or he is mighty patient.
He, and hundreds of followers.
I wonder if he can get it out of second….
Third gear on that train? Just like me borrowing a car with a sixth gear: stoically ignore the existence of it will take you home, too, eventually.
Pssst! Hey buddy!
Wait so let me get this right. The V in 2CV stood for fifth wheel? It was just that the silly French were doing it in the silly Roman numeral system.
No, C stands for 100 and V stands for 5, so the 2CV was PSA Citroen’s prototype for the Peugeot 205.
So this is what Seb Loeb should be using to go through Dakkar?
Absolutely! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZ-__GP8hA
Here it is on track at 1:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-SVC5MzejE
you’re all assuming he hasn’t dropped a SBC under that hood
I wonder if that’d make a 2CV rollable …
I just want to hug this builder. A completely whimsical thing to do, and so nicely finished.
Maybe he worked with these people – http://www.sparrowautomotive.co.uk/citroen2cvbmw.html
An even more ambitious one – https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/45/49/2a/45492a03f7588c6a8f291c824a513e7a.jpg
On this date in automotive history: “On this day in 1904, Henry Ford (pictured standing with Barney
Oldfield) sets a land-speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of
Michigan’s Lake St. Clair. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6896bfd3db549b02e73aa7ba13e3c7925d8d1efd05801b067e87697d325568f7.jpg
That driver deserves a hot toddy!
Doing 90+ in (on?) that, on a frozen lake? I’d have needed a couple beforehand.
He got a hot toddy – in fact he’s lucky his toddy didn’t get burned right off.
That whole scenario is just insane on every level:
Let’s bolt together four steel rails strong enough to hold 500 pounds of motor, hook that puppy up with chain drive and no differential to some bicycle wheels… no real brakes, and let’s see how fast we can go! Oh, and how can we get some additional degree of insanity points? Let’s see, no windshield, and uh, no seat belts, and, and gotta be sumthin’ else..
I know! Let’s do it on ice!
Men in those days apparently were on a first name basis with death, and like daring him to try and come and take them if he could….
imagine the noise and vibration rolling through that tin can as it pulled a grade….