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freebeard · 10-17-2019, 02:58 PM

I like the templatey goodness more than the Chevy Express, except for ingress/egress although I think the huge Chevy doors would be hard to close by hand.

It looks like anti-face recognition dark glasses are catching on.

Bless their hearts, they tried to get the loft line right:

Just A Car Guy: wow, they really went and did a cool job with this bus decorated for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), 1937

They artfully placed vortex generators all along the square edges.
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edit:
I've been thinking.

Instead of a 50/50 morph with the Volkhart-Sagitta how about V-H V2 above the middle of the wheelwells and Aston Martin Valyrie below?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28637/...urgring-record

I wonder how close I could get with my 1958 Beetle body. A wheelbase extension and four new pontoon fenders?

2nd edit:
The extension that moves the front axle-line forward, instead of welded tubing as is the norm, could be a monocoque box (similar to the Porsche Carrera GT) in aluminum or basalt fiber:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/dc...5cd933554a.jpg

3rd edit:
The too-fast Beetle body would be boxed in like another favorite car, the the Golf GTI w-12 650. This would preserve the cooling air if it's not electric:

So that's four cars rolled into one a fifth?

10-17-2019, 02:58 PM	#3252 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,992 Thanks: 8,226 Thanked 8,999 Times in 7,433 Posts	I like the templatey goodness more than the Chevy Express, except for ingress/egress although I think the huge Chevy doors would be hard to close by hand. It looks like anti-face recognition dark glasses are catching on. Bless their hearts, they tried to get the loft line right: Just A Car Guy: wow, they really went and did a cool job with this bus decorated for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), 1937 They artfully placed vortex generators all along the square edges. _______________ edit: I've been thinking. Instead of a 50/50 morph with the Volkhart-Sagitta how about V-H V2 above the middle of the wheelwells and Aston Martin Valyrie below? https://www.thedrive.com/news/28637/...urgring-record I wonder how close I could get with my 1958 Beetle body. A wheelbase extension and four new pontoon fenders? 2nd edit: The extension that moves the front axle-line forward, instead of welded tubing as is the norm, could be a monocoque box (similar to the Porsche Carrera GT) in aluminum or basalt fiber: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/dc...5cd933554a.jpg 3rd edit: The too-fast Beetle body would be boxed in like another favorite car, the the Golf GTI w-12 650. This would preserve the cooling air if it's not electric: So that's four cars rolled into one a fifth? __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder Last edited by freebeard; 10-17-2019 at 07:15 PM..