Water-Powered Car Video: GenePax Hydro Car Set for 2010

Water-Powered Car:
Japanese Co. GenePax Demonstrates Car
Production Hoped for 2010





No, it's not a scam.

A Japanese company has unveiled it's water-powered car.

According to the video, "A liter of water will power the car at 80 kil/hour for about an hour."

[video length- 1:21]




Although the car emits no exhaust, how long will it be before the Green Weinies find that the GenePax auto is bad for the environment?


by Mondo
hat tip: Jack Gregson, FreedomsPhoenix
image: Hey Okay

Darwin Award Candidate: Car Modified into Death Trap

New Zealand:
Car Modification for Aspiring Darwin Award Nominees

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Everyone is familiar with the The Darwin Awards, wherein the Internet and publication celebrate the antics of idiots,convinced of they are geniuses, end their particular gene lines as a consequence of illogical behavior. But few can imagine the effort some will engage in to prove candidacy for this un-prestigious award.

We here at DBKP have found two such souls.

The late Matthew Shannon McDonald and an unidentified 19-year-old.

These two candidates from New Zealand were automobile enthusiasts. So they decided to put together a car from scraps.

Death trap on wheels

...the car had so many defects and modifications it was "a disaster waiting to happen".It had been ordered off the road in December 2005 due to a number of uncertified suspension modifications."On this occasion the vehicle had been towed to get it started. It had an RX7 motor for a Mazda 3 which is not compatible at all.

Wonderful. The lads put an engine on a frame and drive train which was entirely incompatible. The RX7 is a rotary motor, sometimes called a Wankel Engine. The entire engine rotates reaching high rpms very quickly. So it stands to reason that the drive train will be just for this particular engine. That would cause some problems. Might even be difficult to start the engine unless the starter were compatible with the engine. Of course that did not stop our lads.

"Mr Tooman said the car had been "tow started".

Of course steering could be a problem with a poor suspension and an engine more pwerful for its size and weight than the car irself was designed for.So ...

"The car's wheels were also mismatched with two mags on the front and two old steel-pressed wheels on the back."

And in order to ensure control: "Mr Tooman said somebody had fashioned a steering wheel using the rim from a wheel and the spokes of an old steering wheel."
Now that is just frosting on the cake, there.

"The car failed to take a slight bend, crossed the centre line and crashed through a solid wooden barrier before coming to stop against a concrete power-pole used to supply electricity to the main trunk railway line. The pair were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the car on impact. Police said that fact made the job of identifying who was driving the car difficult.Sometime during the crash the rim has become detached from the spikes, he said. "The spikes were still on the steering column and they were like three knives sticking out from the steering column."

"Mr Tooman said the tragedy served a reminder for other car enthusiasts attempting to modify their car."

Indeed.

Like look it up or something.




by pat
images:
* etraceway
* zoomr
* stuff
Source: Death Trap on Wheels

Classic Car Pictures from Labor Day Show in Wheeling WV

Pixelaneous #55
DBKP Road Trip #2:
More Classic Car Show Pix
Lion''s Club Car Show for Sight
Cabela's, Wheeling, WV - Labor Day Weekend
Part 2



[ABOVE: Late model Mustang]


More pix of classic cars from the DBKP Labor Day weekend Road Trip #2 to Wheeling WV and Washington PA.

This time, intrepid DBKP Resident Motor Man, RidesAPaleHorse, helped identify the vehicles in the pictures. He was stumped by photo #2 below. Any readers out there that know the answer?

Leave your best guess in the comments section at the end of this post.

For the first batch of photos, see:
Car and Bike Show: Labor Day 2008 in Wheeling, WV Pictures






I have NO idea.............lol!





Appears to be a 1972 Ford Maverick "Grabber"


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1965 Mustang





1965 Mustang

More from our Labor Day Road Trip: * Signs: Two Best Wheeling Road Trips Signs We Saw * McCain, Palin a Hit in PA; CNN’s Story Leads with “Boos” * Wheeling Vintage Hydroplane Regatta: Thunder on the Ohio River * Steelworkers Protest at McCain-Palin Rally; Palin’s Husband is USU Member * Car and Bike Show: Labor Day 2008 in Wheeling, WV Pictures * Roadtrip!: McCain-Palin Rally, Classic Hydroplanes and Miss Hawaiian Tropic Contest

Not sure about this one at all. Thirties vintage. Can't see the front. It IS what they used to call a "5 window coupe" though. My best guess......Chevrolet or Dodge.





1964 Ford Galaxie 500 with "Thunderbolt" style hood. Can't see the badge on the lower left front 1/4 but probably a 390 cu. in. That badge was reserved for the 390 and 427 engine options. Earlier models also had the same badge with "406"




1967 Shelby Cobra, looks like a clone. Not many of these originals Cobras left, most survivors are million dollar cars now. LOTS of clones around though and some are hard to tell from the originals without opening the hood. The original car built by Carroll Shelby (67 427) was equipped with a 427 cu. in. Ford "side oiler" although some clone builders were lucky enough to find one of the old original engines.. Absolutely KILLER automobile.




1971/72 Pontiac GTO




1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme



by Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorse
images: dbkp

YAHOO BUZZ

Hillary Bumper Stickers Mean Trouble for Obama

Automotive Shorthand for "Obama's Troubles"



[Click images to enlarge.]



A car was spotted in the parking lot at the rally Saturday in Washington, PA for John McCain-Sarah Palin. Actually, it was the bumper which caught our attention.

We realize that one bumper does not speak for any group, but we found this one interesting.

One bumper, four bumper stickers: it seems to show the progression of how, at least one Democrat, arrived at their current political position.





Bumper stickers are snippets of thought, a snapshot of how the person applying the sticker felt about an issue at the time.

With that in mind, the car above may be likened to a political photo album.

The Obama campaign has to hope that such collections, as displayed on the bumper above, are limited.

IF not, Obama-Biden may end up alongside such losing Democrat combinations as Mondale-Ferraro, Dukasis-Bentsen and Kerry-Edwards.

by Mondoreb
images: DBKP

Auto Eroticism: Man Mixes Mania for Cars with Sex

The story of a man who loves his car.

No, I mean, really, he loves his car.

Really.



Most people think they have figured out autoertism as of the age 12 or so. Turns out that is not quite so. And many of us associated cars with sex, but it was what was in the car with us. Not, ah, the .....auto itself!

A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles.

"Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not "sick" and had no desire to change his ways.

"I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love," he said."

That's right: Fast Eddie here has turned in hooters for honkers.



This (above) for this (below):

"Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men. But he confesses that many of the cars he has had sex with have belonged to strangers or car showrooms."

How kind of Eddie to share his passion with us. No word yet as to whether the sex was as good for the Auto as it was for Eddie.

And the mechanics of the whole act are somewhat iffy to the normal mind (Is this where the creepy Mini Cooper came from?).

And I know some of you will tease Eddie with mockery and cruel puns. Tell him he is merely polishing his stick shift, that he is being a bit racy, that cars are to be jacked up, not off etc. But Eddie--who has come out of the closet, oops, I mean, cab--argues that he is part of an international movement:

"Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 “car lovers” brought together by internet forums."

So this means it is all OK, right?

Well maybe this guy can marry his horny Volkswagon in California, but this guy is a wreck in my opinion.

A pervert who has lost his wheels.

by pat
Sources:
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1,000-cars.html
* toolwrench
* autobahnpower
* crazybutable
* charitybuzz
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Fun with Balloons and a Car

Can you imagine this guy going 90 mph on his way to Dallas with these balloons trailing a few yards behind him?

Instructions for a fun time on the interstate.. ......... ....

Step 1. Tie balloons to car.
Step 2. Drive like a bat out of hell....
Step 3. Watch people freak out!!!!

Fun with Balloons: it's just not about animals anymore.

by RidesAPaleHorse
image: hillcountrychurch; RAPH
Source: The Most Fun You Can Have with a Car, Some Balloons, and 60 Miles of Interstate


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The Oreos Weren't the Only Thing That Disappeared That Night

A precautionary tale of stoner woe from the Dayton Daily News:

A complainant reported his vehicle was stolen from the 3000 block of Cornell Drive.

He told police he was getting high in a drug house and wasn't sure how long he had been inside.

The complainant also said he didn't know if he left the keys in the vehicle or if drug dealers stole them from his location. He also stated that he's loaned his vehicle out before but not this time.
--"Man Says He Was Getting High While Car Was Stolen"

He couldn't remember how long he'd been getting high. He couldn't remember where he left his keys. He sounded like he might not be sure if he'd loaned his car to someone.

Maybe he had a car, maybe he didn't. Maybe he'd once ridden in a car and had gotten it all mixed up. Maybe he could spell "car".

The anti-drug forces now have a new poster child. That famous egg in the frying pan now has competition from an unlucky stoner from Dayton.

by Mondoreb



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