Now, THIS is a Car!!!!!

[stavanzer]

The Ice Princess.

https://steampunktendencies.com/the-amazing-xf58-ice-princess-custom-1950-studebaker-and-1960-cadillac-mix/

Can we get this one tooled up, ASAP, please? I'd take one in Resin too.

[SfanGoch]

Looks vaguely familiar.

[ChrisBcritter]

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Now, THIS is a Car!!!!!

Oh, is that what it is. 

(Full disclosure: I have a long-stalled project - a six-wheeled two-seat roadster made from a '62 Dodge - so, something something "glass houses"...)

[StevenGuthmiller]

Looks like something that Cruella Deville  or Gru from "Despicable Me" would drive.

In other words, it's closer to a "cartoon" than a "car".

 

 

Steve

[Jon Haigwood]

Just because you  can doesn't mean you should

[PHPaul]

Step awaaaaaaaaaay from the crack pipe...

[bbowser]

25 minutes ago, Jon Haigwood said:

Just because you  can doesn't mean you should

This

[Snake45]

I wonder if the original design concept was to build something that could make even George Barris retch. 

[Motor City]

I think Alan needs to be forbidden from ever posting here again!  I'm heading to the garage to try forgetting those abominable photos.

[ewetwo]

WOW!

 

[Danno]

Yikes!

[Rob Hall]

Looks like something that Mattel would tool up for the Hot Wheels line.

[89AKurt]

OMG.... ? some people have more money than sense.

I have a 6 wheel car in mind, could start with a Tyrell P 34 1/20 scale, mix with 1/24 rear wheels and 1/43 front wheels, and do the Panther 6.  That I could get into!
 

[Scott Colmer]

That is a pretty bumpy interpretation. 

I've been dreaming of building a body to fit a 1/12 Tyrell. Should look something like this...

[thatz4u]

I didn't realize that Timothy Leary designed cars too, back in the 60's...bad flashback I guess....

[StevenGuthmiller]

Someone needs to explain to me what the deal is with the four front wheels on all of these "renditions".

What is the point?

I have to say, it seems to me to be one of the most useless and ridiculous looking things ever.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Mark]

The Tyrell F1 car used the four front wheels to get more contact between the front tires and the track surface, for better handling.  The four smaller tires probably gave a better contact patch than two larger tires.

Kenny Youngblood sketched several four-front-wheel cars, I believe they were in HOT ROD.  As I recall, he drew up a '34 Ford coupe that looked pretty cool...

[Plowboy]

19 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Looks like something that Cruella Deville  or Gru from "Despicable Me" would drive.

In other words, it's closer to a "cartoon" than a "car".

 

 

 

Steve

I was thinking more like something Homer Simpson would drive.

[Bugatti Fan]

Cruella De Ville ( played by the Bunny Boiler Actress Glenn Close) in 101 Dalmations actually drove a car in that movie named the Panther de Ville that looked like a parody of a Bugatti Royale. It had what looked like a UK reg no DEV 1 L on it.

Incidentally Panther also made a custom twin steer 6 wheeler way back in the 70's I think.

These esoteric customs are a bit way out for me, but, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Edited February 22, 2020 by Bugatti Fan

[Snake45]

19 minutes ago, Plowboy said:

I was thinking more like something Homer Simpson would drive.

More like Montgomery Burns, or his little friend....

[Richard Bartrop]

It's an idea that's been kicked around for a while

[Matt Bacon]

3 hours ago, Mark said:

The Tyrell F1 car used the four front wheels to get more contact between the front tires and the track surface, for better handling.

Not exactly... the Tyrell had four front wheels to give THE SAME contact patch and steering effect with much smaller diameter wheels, to minimise the front facing sectional area of the wheels. File under “it seemed like a good idea at the time” since it turns out that rotating wheels dragging air with them as they turn are not like big flat rectangular plates facing the airflow, and the hoped for “unfair advantage” didn’t materialise, whilst the engineering and handling turned out to be genuinely difficult. Everyone tries, but the successful engineering innovators in F1 since WW2 you can count on the fingers of one hand: Cooper, Chapman, Murray, Barnard and Newey...

best,

M.

[espo]

The 8 tire concept was from one of the big tire manufactures.     

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, Mark said:

The Tyrell F1 car used the four front wheels to get more contact between the front tires and the track surface, for better handling.  The four smaller tires probably gave a better contact patch than two larger tires.

Kenny Youngblood sketched several four-front-wheel cars, I believe they were in HOT ROD.  As I recall, he drew up a '34 Ford coupe that looked pretty cool...

I suppose I could understand increased road contact for racing, but something makes me think that this behemoth is not really going to ever be pressed hard in the corners.

As far as I'm concerned, it's an utterly useless idea on a street car, and not particularly aesthetically pleasing either.

 

Seems like an added tire expense with no benefit whatsoever.

 

 

Steve

[Belugawrx]

5 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Seems like an added tire expense with no benefit whatsoever.

Steve

Except to the tire companies and petroleum product suppliers...