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Guess What I'm Driving to EXPO?

ercoerco Posts: 20,259
edited 2012-03-20 17:08 in General Discussion
No, not the Corvair... I met Adam West yesterday and sat in his car!

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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2012-03-16 08:54
    Nice but....what is the TSO on that vehicle? :)
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-03-16 13:47
    That is so dang cool!
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2012-03-16 14:09
    I call shot-gun !!! ... you gotta take me for a ride. :-)
  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2012-03-16 14:24
    I like in "in dash" pre-GPS direction system. :)
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-16 14:46
    Beau Schwabe (Parallax) wrote: »
    I call shot-gun !!! ... you gotta take me for a ride. :-)

    Sure, but you gotta wear tights and say things corny like "Holy frijoles, Batman!" when Erco suggests where to eat for lunch.

    -- Gordon
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-03-16 14:53
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    Sure, but you gotta wear tights and say things corny like "Holy frijoles, Batman!" when Erco suggests where to eat for lunch.

    -- Gordon

    I think Peter qualifies to ride shotgun.

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-16 14:55
    @Gordon: My favorite line was when the young girl in the Batcave (?) accidently fell into the vat of Bat-Sulphuric acid.

    All Batman could say was, "Poor diluted girl..."





    (UM, YES, as opposed to poor deluded girl) Pa-DUM-Pum!
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-16 14:56
    erco wrote: »
    No, not the Corvair... I met Adam West yesterday and sat in his car!

    Looking good! (The car, not the geek sitting in it!!)

    Is this the original at Barris' place, or one of those knockoffs.? The paint color looks off, either that or it's some showroom lights?

    George was the only Hollywood auto fabricator that didn't bother to talk to me for an article I did back in (gulp) 1978. Anyone recognize the movie this beast was in?

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    -- Gordon
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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-16 14:58
    What, the Landmaster from Damnation Alley? :)

    It was the #5 car from Barris. Hot Wheels leased it for an event. Fun times!

    And yes, the flourescent orange stripes looked off color to me too. Coulda sworn they were red on the show.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-16 15:04
    erco wrote: »
    What, the Landmaster from Damnation Alley? :)

    Oh, I forgot. You're the one with the Forbidden Planet avatar. Of course you'd know the Landmaster! Schlocky movie, great dozer.

    -- Gordon
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-16 15:10
    For those interested, this is the original, a concept car from Ford. It was called the Lincoln Futura, designed sometime in the 50s.

    Seriously, they do not design rad cars like this anymore. Where are the really great designers? All gone, I suppose. I always thought I'd love to drive a car Charles Eames designed. That would be beyond cool.

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  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-03-16 15:10
    erco wrote: »
    And yes, the flourescent orange stripes looked off color to me too. Coulda sworn they were red on the show.

    So does Wikipedia.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/1960s_Batmobile_%28FMC%29.jpg
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-03-16 16:15
    Damnation Alley was a fun film, I mean who doesn't like giant radioactive scorpions? Schlock science fiction films are a lost art, what will the next Mystery Science Theater get their material from?

    Erco, that's pretty neat.
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2012-03-16 16:38
    Bucket seats are no big deal.

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-03-16 16:48
    I thought that Lincoln Futura looked familiar. As a kid in the '50s I assembled a Revell plastic model of that thing. (I kinda remember the parts not fitting together very well.) They're still available on eBay:

    -Phil
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2012-03-16 19:03
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    Looking good! (The car, not the geek sitting in it!!)

    Is this the original at Barris' place, or one of those knockoffs.? The paint color looks off, either that or it's some showroom lights?

    George was the only Hollywood auto fabricator that didn't bother to talk to me for an article I did back in (gulp) 1978. Anyone recognize the movie this beast was in?

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    -- Gordon

    Ah-ha... George Peppard... er Major Denton's Landmaster from "Damnation Alley". A forgettable flick that I looked for ages to find a copy of!!!!

    @
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-16 19:21
    Martin_H wrote: »
    Damnation Alley was a fun film

    All the more amazing is that the Landmaster did all of its own stunts. When it "swam" across the water, it was really doing it, including the paddling from its tri-star arrangement wheels. Its nose was sturdy enough to punch through walls of concrete -- though I'm pretty sure they mostly used lighter materials like gunite. Of all the "practical" props ever made for a film, I think this one was the closest to what its on-screen version actually could perform.

    Erco, did Hot Wheels ever do a Monkeemobile? It was big in the plastic model biz, seeing how Dean Jeffries (its designer) was working with the guy that used to run AMT at the time. I vividly remember putting that model together.

    -- Gordon
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-03-16 21:04
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    All the more amazing is that the Landmaster did all of its own stunts. When it "swam" across the water, it was really doing it, including the paddling from its tri-star arrangement wheels. Its nose was sturdy enough to punch through walls of concrete -- though I'm pretty sure they mostly used lighter materials like gunite. Of all the "practical" props ever made for a film, I think this one was the closest to what its on-screen version actually could perform.

    Erco, did Hot Wheels ever do a Monkeemobile? It was big in the plastic model biz, seeing how Dean Jeffries (its designer) was working with the guy that used to run AMT at the time. I vividly remember putting that model together.

    -- Gordon

    I few years back someone made a Lego version of the Landmaster. It had functioning wheels (though I don't think it would paddle across water). It used a differential between the each set of three wheels that allowed it to climb over obsticles like the original. In order to climb steps, the wheel that encounters the step has to backup a bit in order to let the other wheel rotate over it. The differential allowed these complicated movements to happen automatically.

    I've offen thought about the Landmaster since then and I've wondered how hard a robotic version would be to make.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2012-03-16 22:26
    Quote Originally Posted by Beau Schwabe (Parallax) View Post
    I call shot-gun !!! ... you gotta take me for a ride. :-)
    Sure, but you gotta wear tights and say things corny like "Holy frijoles, Batman!" when Erco suggests where to eat for lunch.

    -- Gordon

    Dangit !! ... the last time I wore tights .... wait, did I just say that? ... I was playing the role of Superman for a company Christmas party video. Of course that was 20 years ago and I could get away with wearing something as 'revealing' for lack of a better term and feel a bit more confident about doing so. It's funny what age and gravity will do. Now days I might start a stampede trying to pull off a stunt like that.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-16 22:32
    I like the stretchy zeppelin fabric midsection best!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-16 22:47
    Someone's "Top 10 Land Vehicles" without the Lost in Space CHARIOT? Spare me.
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2012-03-16 22:55
    erco wrote: »
    No, not the Corvair... I met Adam West yesterday and sat in his car!

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    "Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed."

    @
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-16 23:11
    Or should I drive THIS one to Expo? Shall I start a poll? :smile:

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  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2012-03-17 06:45
    erco wrote: »
    I like the stretchy zeppelin fabric midsection best!
    That looks like it was driving the route I'll take to Expo. I think I'll go around Lake Tahoe instead of through it.
  • vanmunchvanmunch Posts: 568
    edited 2012-03-17 07:56
    erco wrote: »
    Or should I drive THIS one to Expo? Shall I start a poll? :smile:

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    So how was the expo? :)
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2012-03-17 08:26
    erco wrote: »
    Or should I drive THIS one to Expo? Shall I start a poll? :smile:

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    You could drive this one to the past Expos.

    @
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-03-17 08:33
    ajward wrote: »
    You could drive this one to the past Expos.

    @

    I'll bring a load of Propeller 3's from the future to this Expo!
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2012-03-17 08:41
    van, aj, and erco: LOL!
    -Matt
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2012-03-17 08:47
    erco wrote: »
    Someone's "Top 10 Land Vehicles" without the Lost in Space CHARIOT? Spare me.

    And they forgot ARK 2:

    http://www.70slivekidvid.com/ark.htm

    B    ut it was just some sheet metal on a GMC Motorhome:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_motorhome
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-03-17 11:40
    erco wrote: »
    Someone's "Top 10 Land Vehicles" without the Lost in Space CHARIOT? Spare me.]

    These top tens always leave out the classics. Almost half are models or CGI drawings, and hardly really inventive -- you can create almost anything with stop-action photography or computers.

    Besides the Chariot, there's the Logan's Run (TV show) chase hovercrafts (as I recall VW engines on Corvair chassis), the Deathrace 2000 buggies (most all were VWs), the Ark II and Ark Roamer, and a slew of others. The Big Bus (though not an SF film per se) was really a BIG BUS. It may not have been nuclear powered, but it was real. No "it's only a model" with these things.

    -- Gordon
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