By Robert Emslie
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If you’re like me the first thing you did was count the exhausts. I got 23.
I got “to three” and gave up.
Ah, the football/soccer counting system… 1, 2, 3, lots!
One could only hope… I’d go all Keith Emerson on that shit.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/dashboard-keyboard-operates-car-exhaust-calliope/
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/11-1940/car_calliope.jpg
Evidently not the first, though “exhaust gasses” in a 1910 White Steamer are a different thing.
http://www.stanleysteamers.com/vintage-photos.htm
http://www.stanleysteamers.com/photoalbum/vintage/1910-White-Steamer-calliope2.jpg
That’s Little Red Riding Hood, and the Big Bad Wolf was the driver…
There’s also the less mature, less technical version that involves putting a duck call on a blow-off valve.
So I’m on Instagram, and I follow Hagerty Classic Cars, since they post cool pictures and info.
Anyway, I thought todays photo might look familiar around these parts:
The text with it is:
“Built by High Mileage Vehicles in Burnsville, Minn., this 1981 HMV Freeway microcar is one of approximately 700 produced from 1979-83. HMV “guaranteed” that the Freeway – equipped with a 12-hp, 345cc single-cylinder Tecumseh engine – would average 100 mpg “at a steady 40 mph on level ground.” This one at last summer’s tongue-in-cheek Pebble Beach Concours d’Lemons did much better than that, considering it was trailered. The 1981 Freeway retailed for $3,360 – about $9,209 in today’s economy.”
https://www.instagram.com/hagertyclassiccars/
The McLaren F1 is the only other car I can think of that uses the exhaust system as part of the crash absorption system.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/38fde1d08949bfa53947491ba4c1e586/tumblr_mm71hsbnPr1r86692o1_1280.jpg
BFD, OG VW Van used the spare as crash protection. I fart can in your general direction.
Actually, the OG VW van used the impenetrable layer of bug guts on the front as crash protection
Or, how to shit up a Mercedes Benz.
Bubb Rubb’s dream ride, when properly equipped.
And I thought the eight-exhaust-tipped (because V8) full-size pickups I saw in Texas were silly.
With that many mufflers I can only assume this car is very quiet. So stealthy.
The owner, on the other hand, is not quiet when handed the bill of replacing them.
The official Trump Campaign vehicle…
It seems there are a lot of exhausts to harvest in Taiyuan in China – public authorities are wreckings all their taxis in order to go fully electric:
http://www.cctv-america.com/2016/03/03/north-chinas-taiyuan-will-be-first-in-country-with-only-electric-taxis
http://s26.postimg.org/e7x3y2o6h/Taiyuan_China.jpg
The picture makes me guess that their preferred wrecking strategy is by monster truck…
I know China has problems with smog and emissions, but it would be interesting to see a life cycle analysis of the electric vehicles compared to all the taxis that are crushed.
It’s an ambitious policy, and BYD obviously has a very fitting name. But what truly bothers me with the massive financial muscles needed for this project or the Norwegian policy for electric cars is that one tends to assume cars to be the main culprit. In China especially, money would be more efficiently appropriated in improving polluting factories, but I also think that attention towards more eco-friendly houses and pollution from globetrotting merchant and cruise ships would leave a longer-lasting and more effective foot print.
I think those studies have been done, and are pretty positive. IC in a small moving vehicle can never be especially efficient. Large, fiexd power station can be much more efficient, and can can vastly more effective pollution controls operating. But best of all is when renewable electric sources can fuel vehicles, which then means that the carbon footprint resides entirely in the vehicle fabrication process.
I’ve read ones that were done on smaller scales before, but I think it might be interesting to see what the result would be in that scenario where it’s in an area in China that, from what I understand, is predominantly coal-powered. I, for one, welcome our new electric car overlords.
Opulence. I haz it.
http://www.1000sel.com/images/UltraLimousine/Ultra-Limousine-450SL-r107-Mercedes-01.jpg
http://www.1000sel.com/images/UltraLimousine/Ultra-Limousine-450SL-r107-Mercedes-06.jpg
Oh yes: You do indeed haz it…
(1000SEL.com is at once horrifying yet strangely compelling.)
The car appears to be a very lightweight model, as the lady keeps having to hold it down!