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widebody911, is that a vehicle for promoting anti-DUI? It looks like it could function as a police car for the most part.

If you took the photo or have seen one, what does that banner on the rear glass say? I can't make it out.








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I am calling this bogus. It s a nice pic, but there never was any such project started. The comparison vehicle is clearly not a German Tiger I, but a US 105mm self-propelled howitzer:

US 105:

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Tiger I:

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The Ratte was on the drawing board, but the Maus actually got built as a prototype. Too big to cross bridges though, so they were going to make it submersible. The Russians found the hulk after the war and determined it was big and crude. Not a threat (and not capable of being built in any numbers).

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Ferdinand Porsche was a high-up in the tank design department at this time.

Here is the wiki page on the Rat:

Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Germans always liked big guns:

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This would have used an Eight Hundred Millimeter Shell!

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Flickriver: Trigger's Retro Road Tests!'s photos tagged with type
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Yup:

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There's a great write up about the Gimli glider on the ASN Canada FIA motorsport web site:
http://http://www.asncanada.com/Gimli_Glider.html (....and after it gets through how the metric/imperial conversion was messed up, the link at the bottom of the page is well worth the read too!)

BTW I see a picture of my "913" made this thread quite a few hundred pages back, so I'll leave you with a picture of my "X7" as I haven't seen it yet in the thousand or so pages I've been through:
http://barkn.com/bmwfront.jpg

Paul you should be proud of this amazing thread that you started!

Stacy

Commuter Cars - The Tango, ultra-narrow electric car for commuting; 0-60 in 4 seconds
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DailyTech - Japanese Maglev Train Begins Full Speed Testing at 310 mph
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Virtgin Galactic "space" flight view from the rear window.

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H-khULLjtgU?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

For that you have to put down $250,000.00. And it lasts a few minutes. Is it worth it?

Complete waste of money...yup. If I had it, I would drop it down in a second.

Thanks, it has been pretty popular.

Paul