Random TRANSPORTATION pictures

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[Racerbvd]

[StevoRocket]

Manthey Motors Nurburgring VLN 6 hour race car


Untitled by Stevorocket, on Flickr

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[URY914]

[kach22i]

Don't Copy From This Blog...
World Premiere at the 2012 IAA in Hanover: Mercedes-Benz Aerodynamics Truck & Trailer save fuel and relieve the burden on the environment ~ mercedes gla

Click the link above if you like aerodynamic large trucks.

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1952 Chrysler D Elegance
1952 Chrysler D Elegance at the RM Auctions at Monterey


Cool pic
AMV.ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM 1 JONCKHEERE Aerodynamic AERODYNAMIC COUPE,1925 Chassis,1935 Body. Photo by SCAMMELL7 | Photobucket

The TruckNet UK Drivers RoundTable • View topic - BEST 'ERGO' ?






Too many good ones to keep hot-linking, just go to the site to see more.

The TruckNet UK Drivers RoundTable • View topic - BEST 'ERGO' ?

[kach22i]

The TruckNet UK Drivers RoundTable • View topic - BEST 'ERGO' ?

[kach22i]

Styling, fins, aerodynamics, and the Dart concept car

The tests demonstrated that the design of our 1957 model cars exerts a stabilizing effect much as do the tail fins on airplanes and "unlimited class" power boats. With the high upswept fins of our 1957 models, tests showed that road-holding stability was improved, reducing steering correction by as much as 20 percent in strong cross winds at normal highway driving speeds.

Original is at Styling, fins, aerodynamics, and the Dart concept car Styling, fins, aerodynamics, and the Dart concept car
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"Historical SLs in the wind tunnel" - Mercedes-Benz Social Publish

The most important results: the 300 SL (W 194 series) racing car has a drag coefficient cD = 0.376. It is thus around 20 per cent better – that is, considerably better – than its contemporary comparison vehicle, the 300 S (W 188 series), for which a value of cD = 0.462 was obtained. This result underscores the efforts of the engineers and designers back then to attain a low drag coefficient as an important prerequisite for the SL’s racing success – which the car then went on to achieve in the course of the 1952 racing season at different international motorsport events, for example at Le Mans or in the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. The 300 SL (W 198 I) series-production sports car returned a drag coefficient value of cD = 0.389.

.............................At the same time the results of the measurements showed how far from reality was the drag coefficient cD = 0.25 value determined in the 1950s with a 1-in-5 clay scale model of the W 194 – and how great an influence, for example, the air flow through the engine compartment (which of course the clay model did not have) has on the overall air resistance of the car.

[kach22i]

The “large wind tunnel” in Untertürkheim | Mercedes-Benz Passion eBlog


AutoSpeed - Car Aerodynamics Have Stalled

It was mentioned above that underfloor drag is responsible for about one-third of the total drag of a current car. The other proportions are also easy to remember – about one-third for all the exterior surfaces and the last third caused by airflow required for engine cooling. (See Modifying Under-Car Airflow, Part 1.)

[tcar]

Originally Posted by kach22i

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1952 Chrysler D Elegance
1952 Chrysler D Elegance at the RM Auctions at Monterey

Anyone recognize the VW Karmann Ghia here in this view?

[Laneco]

Driving through our neighborhood yesterday - Steve and I spotted this... My eyes still hurt.

angela

[kach22i]

Paleofuture - A history of the future that never was

One of the first cars ever built in Los Angeles, made in 1897 by 17-year-old Earle C. Anthony (Photo by Matt Novak at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles)

Read more: Paleofuture - A history of the future that never was
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(video in link - Davis).

Paleofuture - Paleofuture Blog - The Streamlined Car of 1960*(1948)

[kach22i]

Original Lamborghini Miura Turin Salon Chassis found - photos
Original Lamborghini Miura Turin Salon Chassis found - Photos

First-ever mid-engined supercar

Related article:
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1031406_original-1965-turin-salon-lamborghini-miura-chassis-found

More photos here (aged - unrestored):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesackeyclassics/3418711873/in/photostream/

http://www.lambocars.com/lambonews/original_1965_miura_prototype_chassis_sold_at_auct ion.html

[widgeon13]

I wonder what that wheel tire combo cost the owner??

Originally Posted by Laneco

Driving through our neighborhood yesterday - Steve and I spotted this... My eyes still hurt.

angela

[daepp]

Ohio Turnpike - the rider has no helmet, but does have a large chrome revolver on his hip!

[daepp]

Never see this in CA - I hear the unions keep them out:

[kach22i]

Excellence :: Second Bill : 1976 930 with 600,000+miles : page 4



Penta wheels rule.

[Joe Bob]

Originally Posted by daepp

Ohio Turnpike - the rider has no helmet, but does have a large chrome revolver on his hip!

Is any of that illegal in Ohio? Not that I give a crap......

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]