clusterflock » cars http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How does Deron feel about this car? http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/02/how-does-deron-feel-about-this-car.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/02/how-does-deron-feel-about-this-car.html#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:38 +0000 Casey Cichowicz http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=82157

Or anyone else, for that matter. The Tesla Model X will have gull wing doors. In the back, apparently.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-280.html/feed 7 The Lockheed Lakester http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/the-lockheed-lakester.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/the-lockheed-lakester.html#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:07:25 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80532

This 1917 beauty, known as the Lockheed Lakester, will be up for auction at Barret-Jackson later this month.

The car, registered for road use as a 1917 Crow Lakester Custom, was hand-built from the wing tip tank of a Lockheed Super Constellation and uses a mix of automotive and aircraft parts. Wedged inside the tank is a 1.8-liter turbocharged Hemi four-cylinder mated to a five-speed manual transmission, and the two-person cockpit features gunner seats and an air-speed indicator in lieu of a speedometer.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/the-lockheed-lakester.html/feed 0 You can’t just toss an old surplus turbojet engine into a homemade chassis anymore and go for it http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/you-cant-just-toss-an-old-surplus-turbojet-engine-into-a-homemade-chassis-anymore-and-go-for-it.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/you-cant-just-toss-an-old-surplus-turbojet-engine-into-a-homemade-chassis-anymore-and-go-for-it.html#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:54:22 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80498 Waldo Stakes wants to build a rocket car to beat the current land-speed-record of 763.035 by 1273 mph.

Moving his family to Southern California in 1984 to be closer to the aerospace industry, Stakes was soon scouring scrapyards for parts he could use to build a rocket car. His most impressive find is a set of XLR99 rocket engines designed for NASA’s legendary X-15, the stub-winged experimental plane that grabbed the flight speed record of 4520 mph in 1967 and has never let go. “Back in the ’80s this stuff was considered scrap metal, and everyone was melting it down to recover the silver and gold from the brazed tubing,” Stakes says. “But these engines weren’t built that way. They’re made from Inconel-X [an exotic alloy] and virtually indestructible. I think they cost $1500 each for four. I have two left. One for the car and a spare.”

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It’s the first of the year and we’re officially a 1 car family.

— Michael Smith (@themichaelsmith) January 1, 2012

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/how-do-i-feel-about-this-car-9.html/feed 4 U.S. Routes as a Subway Map http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/u-s-routes-as-a-subway-map.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/u-s-routes-as-a-subway-map.html#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:39:46 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79837

Graphic designer Cameron Booth re-imagined the U.S. Highway system as a subway map:

At long last, I present the latest in my series of transit map-styled designs. This time, we have the U.S. Highway system (that’s U.S. Routes, not to be confused with the newer Interstate Highway system – which as most of you well know, I have already mapped).

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/how-do-i-feel-about-this-car-8.html/feed 15 She had a nose ring. http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/she-had-a-nose-ring.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/she-had-a-nose-ring.html#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:50:51 +0000 Amanda Mae Meyncke http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79604 She slides the papers across to me and asks if I am so excited about my new car.

I do not look up, I say: “It’s just another material posession.”

She laughs brightly and I sign my name twenty times or more.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/she-had-a-nose-ring.html/feed 3 An Introduction http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/an-introduction.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/an-introduction.html#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:36:25 +0000 Michael Grant Smith http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79508 My car is a Kia.

I drive to IKEA.

I had Chick-fil-A for lunch.

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