Stupid regulations

[rwellner98]

If it weren't for the NHTSA, we could still have cool cars like this one from 1922...

 

[luvflyin]

If it weren't for the NHTSA, we could still have cool cars like this one from 1922...

I think Darwin could have got the job done sans NHTSA

 

[eman1200]

what's that thing behind the guy, a mini foosball table?

 

[JOhnH]

If it weren't for the NHTSA, we could still have cool cars like this one from 1922...

I think I might like that better if it had a pusher prop.
But it's cool.

 

[Hang 4]

what's that thing behind the guy, a mini foosball table?

Fuel tank/barbecue

 

[luvflyin]

What engine is that? Someone here gotta know.

 

[Jeff Oslick]

Well, we still have airboats.

 

[Timbeck2]

World’s first air conditioned car

 

[frfly172]

Needs a heat shroud over the exhaust for winter heat.

 

[luvflyin]

I think I might like that better if it had a pusher prop.
But it's cool.

Hmm. Wonder if it's a reversible one.

 

[Tarheelpilot]

what's that thing behind the guy, a mini foosball table?

My vote:

gas tank with oil injection pump.

 

[luvflyin]

My vote:

gas tank with oil injection pump.

Oil Injection? Like it was two stroke engine?

 

[mondtster]

My vote:

gas tank with oil injection pump.

I'm guessing it is a hand driven fuel pump. Similar hand pumps were common on older race cars.

 

[172andyou]

"This thing looks too safe, what if we put the radiator right where the driver is supposed to be looking" - The Inventor (Probably)

 

[mondtster]

Judging by what is allowed on the road in some states, this would probably be legal.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

"This thing looks too safe, what if we put the radiator right where the driver is supposed to be looking" - The Inventor (Probably)

Looks at Pietonpol Air Camper design....

 

[Tarheelpilot]

Oil Injection? Like it was two stroke engine?

Gotta have some way to get the MMO in the thing man.

 

[Bell206]

What engine is that?

It looks similar to a Hispano-Suiza V8. But there were a number of unique engines back then they adapted props to.

 

[luvflyin]

Gotta have some way to get the MMO in the thing man.

MMO??

 

[Fearless Tower]

MMO??

Marvel Myster Oil, aka ‘Snake Oil’

 

[luvflyin]

Marvel Myster Oil, aka ‘Snake Oil’

Ah.

 

[Daleandee]

Appears Rube Goldberg might have been in the room when the plans for that one were drawn up ...

 

[MooneyDriver78]

What’s the chain’s purpose, maybe rear wheel suspension of some design?

 

[TCABM]

 

[hindsight2020]

Judging by what is allowed on the road in some states, this would probably be legal.

Indeed. I had to do a double take, at first glance it looked like a picture of a Tuesday on FM1604 in San Antonio....lol

 

[Dan Thomas]

It looks similar to a Hispano-Suiza V8.

Sure looks like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza_8

 

[Albany Tom]

What’s the chain’s purpose, maybe rear wheel suspension of some design?

Took a minute, but I bet the chains are holding up those wooden beams, and that above those there is some sort of large counterweight. The engine is heavy, and in front of the front axle, and the prop is going to want to pull it over as well.

This actually looks like some thought went into it, even though I'm sure there was no practical use. The angle iron connections look either bolted or riveted, and the headers and exhaust look pretty good, too. It's goofy, but doesn't look like a hack to me.

Other than the overall concept, the weirdest part to me is the prop. Is that an early variable pitch prop? Maybe the wagon is supposed to be a test bed for that?

 

[3393RP]

It looks similar to a Hispano-Suiza V8. But there were a number of unique engines back then they adapted props to.

I think it is a H-S.

 

[flyingron]

You should be able to log something for being the sole manipulator of the pilot in command.

 

[bflynn]

Well, we still have airboats.

Only because there's no National Boating Transportation Safety Administration.

 

[Kenny Phillips]

Only because there's no National Boating Transportation Safety Administration.

There is. https://www.ntsb.gov/tda/family/Pages/tda-marine.aspx

 

[Kenny Phillips]

what's that thing behind the guy, a mini foosball table?

A crap catcher.

 

[Matthew]

what's that thing behind the guy, a mini foosball table?

It’s a cooler for holding his beer.

 

[Bell206]

what's that thing behind the guy,

Fuel tank with a primer pump?

Is that an early variable pitch prop?

Fixed pitch but ground settable I would think.

 

[L J Donelson]

Surprised no one has mentioned lack of right rudder, or for that matter rudder at all. I do not see a steering wheel or rack & pinion front end.

 

[Tools]

Kinda reminds me of that cool amphibian homebuilt at sun-n-fun, made from a cool old aluminum rowboat with a lawn chair for the pilot seat, and a boat trailer winch for the retract mechanism. Totally cool!

 

[Capngrog]

That would be the SunShine Clipper. I pass it every day on the way to work during Sun 'N' Fun.

https://www.kitplanes.com/sunshine-clipper/

It's a pretty cool design, but ya just hafta wonder what the designer was thinkin' and drinkin' during the design process.

 

[Salty]

I think it was just for doing test runs. The wheels are just to wheel it in and out of the workshop for test runs.

 

[Bell206]

I do not see a steering wheel or rack & pinion front end.

He looks to have his hand on a tiller and if you extend the tiller shaft to the axle it looks like its connected to an arm of some sort. So my guess its an old style bellcrank steering linkage.

 

[wanttaja]

Needs armor and a machine gun.

Sizaire-Berwick armored car.

Ron Wanttaja