# Tuckerfan's Museum of Automotive Oddities **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621 "2005-10-24T04:12:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/41 "2007-07-29T14:11:55Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] I’ve always wondered if an external combustion plane could be made, I’ve even considered starting a GQ on it. thanks! Brian [/QUOTE] And thanks to the wonders of the intarwebs, you can [see the plane in action!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPEv_M7p4fA) **Ranchoth** , [here’s the clip](http://youtube.com/watch?v=bxlj6fgQ-ZU) of Ford’s plastic car with Ford hitting it. According to the narrator, the plastic is made from hemp, which conflicts with my memory, but who knows? ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/42 "2007-07-30T02:23:51Z")
Whoever linked to [http://www.darkroastedblend.com](http://www.darkroastedblend.com), you’re my new hero! I’m at home sick, and this blog just made my day! Yes, I do like to collect interesting internet photos, thanks for asking. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/43 "2007-07-30T02:51:22Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Lots of people hate SUVs because they’re big, ugly, and use too much gas. Well, just be glad that [Ford’s concept (in 1911) of what a car in 1961 would look like](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/11fordad.jpg) never came to pass. :eek: [/quote] Looks like the stretched version of a sports car that I saw in MAD once. > [@](#): > > _If showing your irritating cow-irker the hybrid from the 80s doesn’t shut them up, then show them [this British built car](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/runtmobile.jpg) from the 1950s which got 100 MPG, of course it only seats one._ My god, it’s the Cyclops! I thought that was just an April Fool’s joke from Car & Driver! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/44 "2007-07-30T03:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [This has to be the ultimate dirt bike](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/tractorbike.jpg). Instead of a rear tire, it’s got a caterpillar tread system. [/QUOTE] Replace the front tire with skis and you get a 1930s snowmobile. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/45 "2007-07-30T03:36:37Z")
[QUOTE=straight man] Whoever linked to [http://www.darkroastedblend.com](http://www.darkroastedblend.com), you’re my new hero! I’m at home sick, and this blog just made my day! Yes, I do like to collect interesting internet photos, thanks for asking. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Wow! Thanks. [This page](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/04/worlds-strangest-vehicles.html) and [this one](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/worlds-strangest-vehicles-part-2.html) both are chok-a-blok with oddball stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/46 "2007-08-13T05:49:12Z")
A bump, because I’ve found a whole bunch of pages that Wile E. Coyote would _love_. Back in the 1960s, there was a company called [Turbonique](http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/04/the_real_acme.html). To say that they had an “interesting” product line is putting it _mildly_. [JATO jets for your **car**](http://static.flickr.com/45/119673134_0898423e2b_o.jpg) interesting. [Rocket powered rear end, interesting.](http://www.almar.easynet.be/turbonique.htm)[Rocket powered \ ***go karts that would do 160 MPH interesting!**](http://www.vaiden.net/rocket_gokart.html)\* :eek: :eek: :eek: In poking around on the web, I’ve managed to find [part of their catalog on the web.](http://turbonique.tripod.com/) They’ve long since gone under, but [you can buy copies of their technical manual on-line.](http://www.the-rocketman.com/turbonique.html) According to that site, it has _everything_ you need to know to build your own rocket powered car. 🆒 It does, however, appear to be lacking information on how to obtain fuel for them. [thankfully, this site appears to have the necessary instructions on how to make it.](http://www.roguesci.org/megalomania/explo/NPN.html)😃 Wonder if you could get a tax credit for owning an “alternative fueled vehicle” if you used this stuff? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/47 "2007-08-13T16:03:48Z")
Ah, the old Black Widow. You never heard of Turbonique before, Tucker? Try searching, we’ve covered it. It’s right up there with the Vespa with the 75mm recoilless rifle mounted as one of my favorite odd vehicles. Near as I can tell, NASA wanted civilian spinoffs of the space program as fast as possible. I think the rocket powered supercharger is my favorite. To HELL with Nitrous! Oh, and for some concepts that I favor > **[Hyanide and Baal – all terrain motorcycles](https://thekneeslider.com/hyanide-and-baal-all-terrain-motorcycles/)** The Kettenkrad lives! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/48 "2007-08-14T08:53:10Z")
Those are some pretty neat looking bikes. Sadly, I think they’ll probably end up like the Ducatti (IIRC) prototypes I saw about 10 years ago that resembled the lightcycles from _Tron_ and never be made. ☹ Just found out about [this today.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=470818&in_page_id=1965) It’s a car that has tires made from potatoes, of all things. > [@](#): > > The tyres are made of potatoes and the brake pads from ground cashew shells. > The body was created from hemp and rapeseed oil, and it runs on fuel made from fermented wheat and sugar beet. > > Yet despite the greenest of credentials, this mean machine is capable of a highly-impressive 150mph. > > The one-seater racing car - called Eco One - has been built by experts from Warwick University to dispel the perception that ‘green’ motoring means dull little electric runarounds or filling your fuel tank with chip fat. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621/49 "2007-08-14T09:58:07Z")
[http://www.harbay.net/henryford.html](http://www.harbay.net/henryford.html) Eh, it’s been done before. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfans-museum-of-automotive-oddities/327621.md?page=2)