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Favorite Comment: Fixer Ast says, “We have here a lovely specimen of a yet unclassified beetle. As you can see, as winter approaches, the skin on the beetle’s legs hardens into ski-like shapes to navigate the smoother terrain while preventing frostbite. Note the beautiful camouflage. Even more ingenious, it has adapted its wings for winter, with swiftly rotating blades that function in a remarkable vertical direction, preventing the weight of the snow from crushing them. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have here, solid proof, that global warming is affecting evolution.”
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That’s why they didn’t sell them in Moscow.
It’s definitely not a VW beetle, more likely a Czech car like this one:
http://old.radio.cz/en/article/101323
My thoughts exactly. Looks more like a Hudson to me.
..Hudson…
…Hudson Hornet… (too much Cars)
..hornet…
…bug….
STILL A BUG!
u know uve had 2 much of the mov ie cars when u can percectly lip snc every sound cuz you listened 2 it in the front passenger seat on the drive to pennsylvania.
It appears to be rather uncommon to photograph cars from the rear, so I’m finding few pics of an unmodded Hudson from that angle. Anyway, it looks to me as if the Hudson has more of a conventional boot/trunk, not a hatchback like this car. It’s also not a Saab; those with that roofline were 2-door models, and had more rounded frontwings. Same with the Volvo 544.
Definitely. Bugs are round, not boxy. Ms. Fix-it needs to get her eyes examined.
Honestly when I looked at it and saw Bugs what came to my mind was Bugsy as in a gangster not as in the VW Bug
It’s a russian modded GAZ-M20 “pobeda”(victory) car
Here’s link
http://www.3dcar.ru/gallery/data/media/1/8-411.jpg
Just what I was thinking as well – “it looks like a Tatra”. As in the distinctive pre-WW2 Czech car that Hitler and Porsche stole much of the Volks Wagen type 1′s design and tech from…
video!!!
Thrust-powered vehicles really don’t climb hills well…
This is not a thrust-power thing; it is an oversized car heater. Any propelling caused by the fan is purely an unintended side effect.
And apparently it sucks more than it blows.
atleast u know we’ll never be invaded just make a slight slope and their stuck
Idiots! Clearly these are not Americans. American creations like this have all used tracks and actually worked!
That’s a definition of “all” with which I was previously unaware. Or would you dismiss Michigan as being part of the United States?
http://flickr.com/photos/litchard/2224187525/
And those tracked vehicles you say that have all worked? They were first developed in Sweden.
Didn’t this movie star Fred MacMurray?
They should have flipped it and saved the skis.
That would make it χιόνιdynamic
I’m a fan.
That’s not a Volkswagen Bug, Volkswagen never made a 4 door car like that in the Air Cooled era.
The Hudson Manufacturing Company’s dreams to mass produce this machine were soon shattered when they realized that very few individuals could ever afford to get the driver’s, pilot’s, AND boating licenses requied to operate it.
Pre-flux capacitor time machine.
“Wow! Look at all this trunk spaaAAA-A-A……”
Dec 13 1938 – with war on the horizon, British forces plot ways to cross over the engage the German forces by sea.
It looks like a SAAB 96 to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_96
and SAAB made planes back then, so I can guess where they got the engine and prop.
SAAB = Swedish Airplane Company(AB = Company)
Count the doors, will you?
i bet stopping with this thing would be fun…
I didn’t know there were rednecks in Antoartica?!?!
there are rednecks everywhere my friend
Props to the designer.
The design looks cool, but at the time wasn’t well received. He lost every dime he had and now lives on the skids.
Lools like this kludge was photo-propped.
Photo-propped, lol! I’m going to throw that around on ‘picture is unrelated.com.
James Bond in his old redneck days…
Why am I picturing Wile E. Coyote at the wheel of that thing?
win
Then the make of the car must be “Acme”!
Meep, meep!
Not a VW for sure, Pretty sure neither a Hudson nor a Saab. I’d go with old Volvo. And I don’t think that Saab ever built a plane with a radial engine like the one pushing this car/ski/no stopping death trap.
Not a Volvo either. The 444/544 were two-door models.
Quite a few SAAB prop aircraft used radial piston engines, predominantly Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp. Also, most of the aircraft engines used were manufactured by others, although they built a couple of models themselves under license.
It’s made of russian GAZ M20 which is a (not exact) copy of some Ford…
I’ve noticed in a few pictures here and over at That Will Buff Out, any such old-timey car is automatically labeled a VW, Beetle, or Bug, apparently without any actual thought entering into the equation.
That looks a lot like an old Volvo some people I knew had. Very similar to this one (though the one at the link is a 2-door, not a 4-door like the one above)
This, my friends, is our grandparent’s equivalent of sticking a turbojet engine in a Honda Civic. They stuck a damn radial on a Hudson/Saab/?Bug?… on PONTOON SKIS! That’s hardcore.
Just add wings and you got yourself a do-it-yourself airplane
We have here a lovely specimen of a yet unclassified beetle. As you can see, as winter approaches, the skin on the beetle’s legs hardens into ski-like shapes to navigate the smoother terrain while preventing frostbite. Note the beautiful camouflage. Even more ingenious, it has adapted its wings for winter, with swiftly rotating blades that function in a remarkable vertical direction, preventing the weight of the snow from crushing them. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have here, solid proof, that global warming is affecting evolution.
I guess you are all missing that those are enclosed pontoons, not merely skids.
It’s an passenger airboat kludge, meant for going across ice lakes, and able to (hopefully) float if the ice is too thin.
That would explain why they’d make one out of a car, as it’s more likely you’d need passenger room for lake travel, as opposed to just horsing around on the lake.
I think it’s a russian modded GAZ-M20 “pobeda”(victory) car
Here’s link
http://www.3dcar.ru/gallery/data/media/1/8-411.jpg
I’ve seen this one before on a site for vintage photos (which, I can’t find at the moment, of course). On that site it was listed as having been taken in Siberia around 1959.
Not a VW, not a Volvo, not a Saab… It’s a Pobeda or a Warsawa. (Pobeda is russian, Warsawa is the same, but made in Poland.)
Admittingly, England wasn’t quite as prepared for battle as Nazi Germany was…
Just in case, thats russian Sever-2 prototype based on GAZ M20.
Author was a helicopter designer Kamov.
I guess pushing that thing up the hill is out of the question.
On the plus side, no tailgaters.
That’s russian “Podeda”(Victory)-M20 car
I know what’s next for the Dodge Dynasty!
I don’t know about pushing it up hill, but I do know for sure that you don’t push start it.
Speed Racer Z,
Winter Battle Snow Action Extreme!
The car is a Czechoslovakian Tatra T-87 that has been converted into a snowmobile. When the Nazis “annexed” Czeckoslovakia, they immediately forced Tatra to stop building the T87 because of the intellectual property issue with the KDF-Wagen (VW Beetle), as Ferdinand Porsche has copied a lot of Tatra’s designs. It seems that Porsche and Hans Ledwinka (Tatra’s brilliant chief engineer) had a professional relationship and had shared some ideas, many of which were used in the Beetle and T-87. At any rate, the snowmobile pictured here was commissioned by the Germans as a possible way to bring winter time mobility to the Wehrmacht. If memory serves, It was to be used in the Russian front where things were not going well due to issues with mobility, among other things (Hitler’s myopia and the inability of the Luftwaffe to bomb plants east of the Urals due to a religious dedication to Blitzkrieg that prevented the development of long range strategic bombers like the American B-17 and B-29, etc.). It never got beyond the prototype stage, and I believe 2 were built. Interestingly enough, the Russians built a similar looking snowmobile based on the GAZ (Gorky Auto Plant) Poebda (Russian for Victory) car after the war. One must wonder just how much influence the Tatra design had on GAZ!
Wow, great history lesson!
I did miss a detail, and that is not the Tatra variant shown. If it were, it would have the drum to push it from the rear. No, this is the Soviet model that was based on the GAZ Poebda. If you look at the roofline, it becomes obvious. Plus, the Tatra variant eliminates the frontal overhang, whereas the GAZ still has the wheelwells from the 2wd variant, but covers them in sheetmetal. The Poebda is interesting in that there is also a 4×4 variant that was produced for rough terrain as well. What is kind of cool is that the Poebda came out in 1946, and was one of the few unitized construction cars mass produced at that time. While not the first ( That would be Andre Citroen’s Le Traction (Traction Avant)), it is unique in that it is a Soviet design that was not a copy of a Western car. GAZ had, after all, just started producing cars in the early 1930′s of which all were Ford Model A’s and AA trucks. The reason they were Fords is that Ford licensed the design and helped them set up manufacturing to raise capital during the Depression. Many Ford workers were also killed in the Gulag during Stalin’s first purge, but that is another story all together.
The one in the video is the Tatra (or rather, a replica), the Gaz is the car in the original photo .
Its Gaz Pobieda / Warszawa m20
GOWD… http://www.jachowicz.com.pl/gazM20.jpg
For the man who genuinely believes that snow chains are for pussies.
Obviously, it’s russian Pobeda car.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/SVu-tc79_PI/AAAAAAAA1Lo/YomGRSDJP60/s640/34y74w5tetd.jpg
http://www.ladaparts.ru/hotrods/GAZ-M20.jpg
The GOOD thing: He can do about over 100mph at full throttle!
The BAD thing: It propeller only pull, not push! It do go backward!
Looks like FSO Warszawa – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Warszawa
Looks like a Standard Vanguard [1950s British] to me.
The aero engine option was not popular due to petrol rationing.
Where’s the punchline in all the jokes ? Ignorance is not an excuse…
- As mentioned before – this is a Soviet Pobeda car
- This specific one is not a DIY experiment, it’s a real vehicle which was built for very specific conditions (Russian tundra, lots of snow, lack of roads), with a very specific purpose, which it fulfilled very well.
Would have bet on a Volvo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_PV444/544
But the handles and around the wheels are wrong, so I take that back
This is obviously a 1957 Citroën DS.
Unmodified.
It looks an awful lot like a 1950 Mercury to me… I put a lot of miles on one in the early 60s’… ’50 & ’51. The breaks worked well, the transmissions… not so much.
Them’s the brakes, I guess.
STEAMPUNK!!!
This early attempt at adapting speeders to the cold cost the lives of a couple poor tauntauns.
This is Russian experimental “AeroSledge” made from
GAZ-M20 “Pobeda” in the amount of 100 pieces, in 1960-1961 and It had 260 h.p. engine.
This thing was designed to transport mail in the north of the USSR.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Chassis weight (max) – 2350kg
Mark engines – AI-14RS (260hp)
Screw Diameter – 2,7 m
Payload-500kg
Maximum speed – 60km / h
Duration of course – 5 hours
Range of course – 360km.
http://www.autowp.ru/picture/183000
i go with the wings theory, just that i think this was the first VW plane after their first plane crash losing both of them
Its an GAZ-20 Pobeda – russian after II world war car
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GAZ-M20_Pobeda.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pobeda-Mockup-1943-44.jpg
it is a volvo pv 1965
This post couldnt be more factual
That’s an all round good piece..