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What It's Like To Drive The Worst Car In The World – Jason Drives (Funniest. Video. Ever.)
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| 10-8-2015
| Jalopnik
Posted on 12/04/2016 6:09:50 AM PST by brucedickinson
Jason Drives is a show about Jason Torchinsky driving the weird, the wonderful, and the downright insane. The Hoffmann is at least two of those things.
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I post this because this is simply one of the funniest videos I have ever seen. This car is German, and was made shortly after the war out of whatever parts were around. For example, the windows are raised/lowered using a mans' leather belt, and at any moment, the car can tip over. The driver says he almost hit a stationary truck while going 2 mph. Hilarious.
To: brucedickinson
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:15:56 AM PST
by
Fai Mao
(PIAPS for Prison 2016)
To: brucedickinson
How soon we forget the immortal 3 Wheel Davis...
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:17:00 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: brucedickinson
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:19:35 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: brucedickinson
Also check out “rolling a Robin Reliant” by Top Gear.
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:25:45 AM PST
by
Clay Moore
(JRandomFreeper, SWAMPSNIPER RIP)
To: brucedickinson
Wow. It’s like the horrific offspring of a Reliant Robin and a ‘50s-vintage Airstream trailer.
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:29:53 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: brucedickinson
Thanks for posting this - just awesome!
I would love to pick the brains of the Engineering crew that worked this one up.
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posted on
12/04/2016 6:47:31 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: brucedickinson
It’s amazing, the Germans priding themselves with endless perfectionist engineering, would come up with an absolute joke like this.
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posted on
12/04/2016 7:03:34 AM PST
by
redfreedom
(The nation has been saved. Thank you Dear Lord. Long live President Trump!)
To: brucedickinson
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posted on
12/04/2016 7:10:12 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: brucedickinson
Hoffmann went on to design the Mercedes-Benz 300SL "GullWing", Porsche 356 Speedster, BMW 507 - 1958,
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12/04/2016 7:10:36 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: brucedickinson
To: PIF
It seems just about as ugly as the later 1956 German competition...:^)
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posted on
12/04/2016 7:30:24 AM PST
by
az_gila
To: PIF
He must have gotten his demons out with that car if he designed this one, too:
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posted on
12/04/2016 7:45:00 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
12/04/2016 7:50:29 AM PST
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IncPen
(I just found out that PIAPS is a reference to the "Pig In A Pants Suit". Ha! #NeverHillary)
To: brucedickinson
It’s to bad he has to use so much profanity and cussing, otherwise I’d watch more of these and let my kids watch, too.
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posted on
12/04/2016 8:17:24 AM PST
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Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Dr. Sivana
yes i forgot to put a language warning. It’s unfortunate he gets a little blue because he is a funny guy
To: brucedickinson
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12/04/2016 8:59:01 AM PST
by
glasseye
To: brucedickinson
It’s just bizarre every which way you look, seems awful but for some reason I like it. The entire drivetrain serving as a sort of wheel-driven inboard-outboard propeller wastes so much space, terrible as far as stability but is still somehow cool as heck.
The design attempts to be aerodynamic, but the vehicle isn’t capable of reaching sufficient speed for aero to matter, and it’s got what looks like over a foot of ground clearance so it would go airborne even if it could. Those wheels somehow don’t look right, though. Diameter is too large, which puts the vehicle too far off the ground. I suspect they were originally much smaller.
It’s as if a mad scientist obsessed with implementing his vision of that specific drivetrain configuration got together with a talented designer and came up with this on a practically nonexistent budget.
They have a lot of fun, wacky cars at the Lane Motor Museum. I particularly like the Dymaxion. Cash-strapped postwar Germans weren’t the only ones building strange, impractical 3 wheelers. Buckminster Fuller got in on the act too.
To: RegulatorCountry
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion at the Lane Motor Museum in Tennessee:
I see a lot of this in the classic GMC motorhome of the 70's, oddly enough. Similar construction, aircraft grade aluminum skin predominating but the Dymaxion has wood structural support whereas the GMC is aluminum also.
Wouldn't have thought that Carhartt duck fabric color would look so good next to aluminum.
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