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Post interesting vehicles here. Only criteria is that they need to exist or have existed in real life. Discuss them if you like.
Gyro x 2 wheeled self balancing car from the 1960s
The back kind of looks like a Corvette. The Corvette likeness overall is interesting, since an old school nickname for the Corvette is the flying dildo, and this vehicle does give off a bit of a dildo vibe.
Here's the baka bomb, a glider used for kamikaze missions by the Japanese during WW2. It had a rocket engine that exhausted it's fuel in very short order, and had no landing gear since that wasn't important. The tip of the plane was a bomb of course.
Flying pancake prototype plane of WW2. I guess it would have been capable of very slow speeds due to it's massive wing construction? Interesting early UFO disc design. Reminds me of a frisbee.
This was the tyco typhoon rc hovercraft from the early 90s. The commercial heavily implied that it could drive on water, but in fact it could not float and once it submerged chances are it shorted itself out.
This is a ninja on a motorcycle toy from the 1980s, it has a friction drive motor. These seemed to be everywhere for awhile. As I looked them up on the Internet awhile ago on a nostalgia binge it seems like there were dozens of variations of ninja on motorcycle toys coming out of the 80s. You'd think it might be a pun on the Kawasaki Ninja model of motorcycle, but I've seen toys with the ninjas riding all kinds of crazy motorcycles including choppers and what look like vintage bikes. What was up with these?
This was the Timberwolf Extreme. A little known skateboard/ripstik kind of thing from around 2010. I think it had two castor wheels like a ripstik. However, unlike a ripstik, it allowed you to ride in fakie and do 180/360 etc spins on the ground. I have not been able to track one down to test it out, but it seems quite a bit more advanced and impressive than the ripstik in terms of what all you can do with it and it is tragic that it is not more easily available. If you have one to sell, shoot me an offer.
Also on the skateboard tip is the flowboard. Basically a board with curved trucks and more wheels to simulate the carving motion you might use with a snowboard or wakeboard. Looks kind of interesting. I never tried one out, but heard that they were very heavy with all the extra wheels, and they were probably only fun if you had a big hill nearby to go on that you carried it up. In other words, probably not something you're going to be using at the skate park.
Gyro x 2 wheeled self balancing car from the 1960s
The back kind of looks like a Corvette. The Corvette likeness overall is interesting, since an old school nickname for the Corvette is the flying dildo, and this vehicle does give off a bit of a dildo vibe.
Here's the baka bomb, a glider used for kamikaze missions by the Japanese during WW2. It had a rocket engine that exhausted it's fuel in very short order, and had no landing gear since that wasn't important. The tip of the plane was a bomb of course.
Flying pancake prototype plane of WW2. I guess it would have been capable of very slow speeds due to it's massive wing construction? Interesting early UFO disc design. Reminds me of a frisbee.
This was the tyco typhoon rc hovercraft from the early 90s. The commercial heavily implied that it could drive on water, but in fact it could not float and once it submerged chances are it shorted itself out.
This is a ninja on a motorcycle toy from the 1980s, it has a friction drive motor. These seemed to be everywhere for awhile. As I looked them up on the Internet awhile ago on a nostalgia binge it seems like there were dozens of variations of ninja on motorcycle toys coming out of the 80s. You'd think it might be a pun on the Kawasaki Ninja model of motorcycle, but I've seen toys with the ninjas riding all kinds of crazy motorcycles including choppers and what look like vintage bikes. What was up with these?
This was the Timberwolf Extreme. A little known skateboard/ripstik kind of thing from around 2010. I think it had two castor wheels like a ripstik. However, unlike a ripstik, it allowed you to ride in fakie and do 180/360 etc spins on the ground. I have not been able to track one down to test it out, but it seems quite a bit more advanced and impressive than the ripstik in terms of what all you can do with it and it is tragic that it is not more easily available. If you have one to sell, shoot me an offer.
Also on the skateboard tip is the flowboard. Basically a board with curved trucks and more wheels to simulate the carving motion you might use with a snowboard or wakeboard. Looks kind of interesting. I never tried one out, but heard that they were very heavy with all the extra wheels, and they were probably only fun if you had a big hill nearby to go on that you carried it up. In other words, probably not something you're going to be using at the skate park.
