Random TRANSPORTATION pictures

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Batmobile | Hemmings Daily

* Apparently, as Silodrome excerpted from Randy Leffingwell’s recent book on Corvettes, the producers of the Batman TV series asked GM to propose a design for a Batmobile. It looks like GM took the assignment super serious. (via)

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/tag/batmobile/

* This photo of a Pontiac station wagon rotting on a beach somewhere has been making the rounds the last couple years, and we finally tracked it back to mikebaird’s Flickr account, where he notes that it was uncovered by winter storms on the California coast near Morro Bay. (via)

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/alt-power-vehicles/page/3/


1954 Borgward Hansa 2400
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/07/page/8/

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Automotive Aerodynamics: Drag Area – Size Matters


http://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-aerodynamics-drag-area-size-matters/

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Originally Posted by widebody911

You'll be very happy if you do a Google search for Ghia and all the cars they designed for Chrysler and others. So sad more didn't get produced.

This Ghia Norseman (with cantilevered roof!) one-off sank on the Andrea Doria:



Cadillac:


Volkswagen:

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Originally Posted by RWebb

Not to PARF, but would this have happened if the enviro-crazies would have let us build more pipelines. Per the WSJ today, just in the last decade the number of oil tanker shipment has risen 30 fold. And they are much more responsible than pipelines for spills per mile. And yet the enviro wackos prevail. Go figure.

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Originally Posted by daepp

Not to PARF, but would this have happened if the enviro-crazies would have let us build more pipelines. Per the WSJ today, just in the last decade the number of oil tanker shipment has risen 30 fold. And they are much more responsible than pipelines for spills per mile. And yet the enviro wackos prevail. Go figure.

You PARF'd it up..........do you realize that to get tar sands to flow in a pipe ammonia-like additives have to be added right? When a pipeline spill happens the toxins separate and become airborne killing anything in low lying lands and water.

Potential Keystone Pipeline Leaks Underestimated, Study Finds


Oh yea, and those additives eat though the pipes at a fast rate too, causing even more leaks.

https://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Drilling-and-Mining/Tar-Sands/Michigan-Oil-Spill.aspx

http://airhugger.wordpress.com/

[RWebb]

yes, you really PARFed it up

However, the accident rate for pipeline transport is much lower than that for rail transport.

OTOH, the amount of damage or size of spill for pipeline transport is much greater than that for rail transport (this one will change those stats maybe).

There are also some negatives to move electrons around the continent...

oh yeh - that's another transportation photo:

[daepp]

Sorry.

[RWebb]

no biggie

here is something that many look at as great (however, a Porsche engineer looks at it as inefficient):

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PWT neighbors getting their truck repo'd. I'm not exactly clear on what's going on, but he's wedged his fat ass in the truck and there's a lot of yellin' and cussin' goin' on.

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You missed the most iconic Ghia

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You guys really need to look up the definition of the word "TRANSPORTATION".

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