readers rides canoe

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/2456/

Those Audi newly sneakers always impressed me

And here I was hoping it would be a humorous entry or a canoe-bodied locost or something.

Canoe

If I had a canoe, I would post a pic on readers rides I always wanted one of those coleman canoes with the cooler built into the center.

A very special Stanley Steamer held the land speed record for steam-powered cars (127+ mph!) for over 100 years!

Guess what they used for the principle body work?

meh, I call BS on that one. this deck bears little resemblance to anything one might paddle

Cool looking though!

kreb wrote: this deck bears little resemblance to anything one might paddle

Google it. You'd be surprised what people paddle.

It's hard to imagine that someone with the technical expertise to build a car like that would have to chop up a canoe to clad it. Typically canoes have very little rocker, and even whitewater boats don't have that much. I looked up three sites, and none of them mention the "canoe" liniage, so I'll shift the burden of proof back to you......

Well, it wasn't a canoe, but it was built by a canoe maker.

The company was incorporated as Robertson & Old Town Canoe Company in 1902, establishing a partnership with Auburndale, Massachusetts, canoe maker John Ralph Robertson. George and Herbert Gray held most of the shares, while the latter served as president. Robertson, who already had his own popular business based on the Charles River, left Old Town in 1903 and it was reincorporated without his name. (He later lent his expertise to building racing canoes and even the wood-and-canvas shell for record-setting Stanley Steamer automobile.)

aeronca65t wrote: A very special Stanley Steamer held the land speed record for steam-powered cars (127+ mph!) for over 100 years! Guess what they used for the principle body work?

WOW I just don't want to go 127 mph in that thing. I think 130 mph is scary in my Saab 900. But I would rock that hat...