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Old 02-28-2010, 04:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Sure, a cardboard boattail is cool...

Sure, a cardboard boattail is cool, but why stop there? Why not make a cardboard race car?

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Old 02-28-2010, 04:59 PM   #2 (permalink)
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...looks like the car "cutouts" that we used to get on sides of cereal boxes, etc.

...only BIGGER.
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Old 02-28-2010, 05:32 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't know about crashtests, though...
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Old 02-28-2010, 05:45 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 02-28-2010, 06:55 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Sure, a cardboard boattail is cool, but why stop there? Why not make a cardboard race car?
Well, Toyota did in the 1960's and sent it to LeMans to race against Porsche etc.

Not all the car was papier mache but non structural parts like the rear wing and cover panels were.

The result was light weight and reasonably strong panels.

Speaking of which...Bentley (and other makers) raced in the 1920's and 1930's with cars having bodies made from canvas and other fabrics for the same reasons.
The fabrics were soaked in resins and allowed to dry on a frame to give them the correct shape and then attached to the car normally on a wooden frame.

Finally...horse drawn cabs in the 1800's had panels made from linen soaked in resin and dried in shaped molds. Some are still around today and they were light weight , water proof an fairly sturdy.

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...Bentley (and other makers) raced in the 1920's and 1930's with cars having bodies made from canvas and other fabrics for the same reasons. The fabrics were soaked in resins and allowed to dry on a frame to give them the correct shape and then attached to the car normally on a wooden frame.
...early aircraft technique: doped canvas for body and wing surfaces over wooden frames.
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I'm not at all convinced the cardboard car is full size, 1:1 scale.

Many of us have long suspected that somewhere in the misty mountains of
Japan, Korea, and China there is a race of miniaturized humans. How else
can all the Aisian micro-electronics be assembled?

How else do they get the HID headlight bulbs installed in a Prius?

Well, now we know. The picture shows a roughly 1:24 scale paper model
being assembled by up to now only mythical mini-race.

Is it any wonder that the Detroit 3 claim that they can't compete on a level
playing field?
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Old 02-28-2010, 10:14 PM   #8 (permalink)
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...early aircraft technique: doped canvas for body and wing surfaces over wooden frames.
Still do it like that over aluminum and steel for a proper bush plane up here.
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I want one to put on my road bicycle. Get some RESPECT in traffic.;-) Well until the real cars figured out I can only do 10 mph in it...

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