Remember when Cadillac had the thing that was the bottom half of a 56 wagon and a camper shell on top? There's one of those sitting about 10 miles away from my house. I seem to remember reading somewhere that those oddities are fetching some good money right now. I guess they only made a few thousand or less of them. The only reason I remembered that car is because the house it sits next to caught fire a few weeks ago and I'm on a volunteer dept. I believe the old man that owned the property is in a nursing home knocking on the Grim Reaper's door.
Talk about weird cars. In the late 70's early 80's I lived in a nice little seaside town named Cardiff by the Sea in Southern California. Some guy out there took the fuselage from a jet liner and mounted it on a truck chassis. It was such a cool vehicle and loooonnnnnggggg! Obviously, it didn't have the wings on it anymore, but it was clearly once an airplane. When I moved back to New Jersey, I was going to work one day and saw the exact same truck/plane, (there couldn't have been more than one of them), on Rte 22 in Scotch Plains. I'm sure it's long since found a home in some junk yard somewhere, but it definitely was a head turner.
Going way back now....there was a 70's TV show called "Real People" and they showed a plains fuselage on truck chassis driving thorough down town where ever it was...it was cool IMO
Well, I've found this.... and this....... http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/johnf-howardhughesboat.jpg Then there's this: http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archi...hanksmas_zombie_science_music_imt_survey.html
Yeah, that thing looks safe to share the road with. How would the Pilot/driver know where any other vehicles on the road are, let alone where the nose of that contraption actually ends?
How the heck does that boat stay afloat? I'll bet the inventor of that thing would've been mighty disappointed if, after he got it done, he put it in the water and watched it go immediately to Davy Jones' locker.
Does anyone remember the round the world one made our of an old milk tanker? Discovery tv i think. Diesel powered, on ocean and road.
Yeah, I remember that one. The owner of the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter invested quite a bit of money into the endeavor as I recall. Unfortunately, the beast didn't live up to expectations - had a lot of problems. I don't think he ever got around the world. Here's the website for it: http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com/Dobbertin%20Surface%20Orbiter.html
I remember a dragrace team that often came to the Netherlands had a sort of camper/truck that came from a movie. It had a very futuristic front like an airplane..... I will try to find it....
thats the cosmic muffin!!!! its the boat from the book "where is joe merchant!!!!" something like this DRG?
Yep, just like that only it's got the Cadillac front end. I remember a guy advertising in Hemmings a few years ago that he was looking for them.
