Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

logdog said:

Hey, I used to work with John!  He left a decent job to draw cartoons.  Good on him.

Will one of you maniacs please recreate this for the challenge.

Hungary Bill said:

Brett_Murphy said:

I JUST saw that come across my facebook feed but for the life of me I cant remember which group it was...

 

Banned, innovative and such cars is the group.

My aunt posted this picture today- 25 years ago there was some really good smallmouth bass fishing under those falls in the summer. I wonder if it is still good.

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

Looks like a good spot. I'd have to wonder if access has been cut off though, it looks like it's next to a power station of some sort.

Floating Doc said:

Looks like a good spot. I'd have to wonder if access has been cut off though, it looks like it's next to a power station of some sort.

 

The power station has been there for a while. There are ways down, and the water gets much lower during the summer.

1966 Ford Ranger II concept:

I don't think this is Syd Mead, but it definitely owes quite a bit to the man:

In reply to Duke :

When I win the powerball I'm going to waste a good chunk of time researching French promotional vehicles. 

Wally said:

In reply to Duke :

When I win the powerball I'm going to waste a good chunk of time researching French promotional vehicles. 

 

I believe the one I posted is Italian, but your point stands, without question.  A lot of Teleavia and Frigeavia appliances were designed by the French, astoundingly enough.

Indeed, here's a 1957 Teleavia TV - designed by Flaminio Bertoni, who designed the Citroen DS:

And a fridge:

In reply to Duke :

It could well be Italian, they had a wild vehicle design period too but not as numerous as the French who seemed to turn out futuristic trucks for pretty much anything.

  
The Italians made Communism look fun:

sleepyhead the buffalo said:

Wally said:

Pretty soon all those mewlers would only be seeing sphincter.

Thanks for creating an image in my brain of what the rear view of Mortimer would be.

jwagner said:

If somebody would make a rotor watch that had the rotor moving epicyclically inside a rotor housing, I'd buy it.

"Hey... what's wrong with this picture?"

jwagner said:

Herein lies trivia.

Mazda rotary engine naming is... weird, if you are not of Mazda.  The letter has little to nothing to do with "engine family" like other makes or models, it just signifies difference between versions of a given displacement.

The 10A, 12A, and 13B, and stillborn 15A are all from the same "engine family" and a lot of parts interchange between them.  The 13B as just the second 1.3l engine they built.  The 13A was a weird engine, it was the only engine that Mazda ever built in any kind of production capacity that had a different housing radius and "stroke".  It's so rare that the R130 Luce that Mazda has in their company museum doesn't have an engine in it.

Also, it was front wheel drive.

(The 20B was the second "2 liter" engine, the first being the 13G race engine, which was a three rotor engine built on 13B geometry, and the R26B was the second "2.6 liter" engine, the first being the 13J four rotor race engine built on 13B geometry... I did say the naming convention was weird)

Knurled. said:

jwagner said:

If somebody would make a rotor watch that had the rotor moving epicyclically inside a rotor housing, I'd buy it.

 

 

"Hey... what's wrong with this picture?"

There is someone here in this last photo who played a character killed by a terminator, an alien, and a predator. There is another...

In reply to Knurled. :

 hotlink only semi related.

If the 13B 2 rotor was the "base" for the 13J 4 rotor, could an enterprising individual create something like a 6 rotor? 

I've only seen one rotary engine up close and personal, and only for a brief period, but are rotor housings stackable I guess is the question I'm trying to ask?

I've never seen two housings stacked on one another, it's always just add more rotors and irons.

Doing it that way, it's the eccentric shaft you'd have to worry about in a really big rotary engine. 

4 rotor:

2 rotor:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/549687049150799/

Turbo and draw thru carb in Milwaukee area. 

Not the exact picture from the add. I cant figure out how to do that on my phone.