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Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

Really.

It was in the trunk. In pieces.

Once I get it rebuilt I'll put in back in the truck, where it belongs.

[ September 04, 2006, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: Glenn Arnold ]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

[Laugh]

Now I'm imagining people using Prius bodies to make the most fuel-wasteful hot rod they can imagine.

Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :

I had images of this prius with a huge hood scoop and fire coming out of its tailpipes?

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

[Big Grin]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Okay, that was funny!

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

We have a porche engine in a 60s volkswagen.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

Quite a few '60s Porsches had VW engines in them.

I once saw a chopped and channelled Beetle with a big block chevy motor in it run an 1/8 mile track. The motor blew a piston right out the bottom of the engine, about halfway down the track. Still had an impressive time however...

No doubt someday soon someone will indeed put a Prius body on a drag car frame, just for a laugh. But I haven't seen it yet.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Someone has built an Electric Dragster

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

I saw an SUV today with the license plate "STAR EV 1". I couldn't decide whether it was intentional irony, or whether it meant something altogether different.

There needs to be a TV show about the last EV 1, which was stolen and never returned to be mulched. Maybe it could be a spinoff of Hiatus.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

That's a step in the right direction. There was a time when the racing industry could claim that they were developing new technology with street applications, but that argument has been getting pretty thin lately.

But EVs have to be appealing in order to be successful. So cars like this dragster, the Venturi Fetish and the Tesla can do a lot by making EVs sexy.

Now doesn't someone else have to make one, so they can race?

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

Bob's post about the dragster got me thinking. Motorsports are undoubtedly a waste of energy, but I wonder how much of our energy use actually goes into powering race cars? Is it comparable to the energy use for travel or other forms of entertainment?

I don't know how to go about looking for the answer, but maybe someone with better google-fu than me can find something on it.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

The amount of energy "wasted" on motorsports over the past century plus a few years has been estimated to equal the amount of energy needed for the human race to have colonized the moon.

This figure is inclusive of monster truck rallies, of course.

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Of course. *nods sagely at Bob.*

Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :

Yeah, nice data, but I question the word "wasted."

With motorsports you get Grand Prix, Formula 1, Eric Bostrom, motocross, snowmobiling, monster truck rallies (of course), Nascar, and (link):

quote:
Most people won't know this, but I'm here to educate (!). One such moment of humanism in motor sport was at Le Mans in 1967, where Dan Gurney created a now traditional act. Standing on the victory podium, he was handed the obligatory bottle of champagne. But Gurney wanted to share his mighty achievement with the throng of people surrounding him. Instead of drinking it, he spontaneously decided to spray it over the assembled crowd.

Speaking later, he said, "I was so stoked that when they handed me the Magnum of Moet et Chandon, I shook the bottle and began spraying at the photographers, drivers, Henry Ford II, Carroll Shelby and their wives. It was a very special moment at the time, I was not aware that I had started a tradition that continues in winner's circles all over the world to this day"

Colonize the moon, and whattya got? A few geeks on a dead satellite, 47 conspiracy websites claiming the whole thing was faked on a Nevada movie set, and one old lady complaining that having people on the moon is ruining the weather in Poughkeepsie.

Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :

John, my mom doesn't live in Poughkeepsie.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

I do.

Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :

quote:
John, my mom doesn't live in Poughkeepsie.

Yuck it up, chuckles [Smile]

You're just lucky your mom doesn't read Hatrack.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

Hey, the truck started up today. There is something wierd about building an engine up from the bare bones. Talk about an "It's Alive!" moment.

The antichrist lives again.