What car would you CREATE?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Suicide-doors don't look any good in a vehiche that was not originally fitted with them, but eventually a pillarless setup with suicide rear doors and conventional front ones could enhance the practicality of the vehicle.

[freebeard]

Hardtop station wagons came and went in IIRC 2 or 3 years.

My 1950 Studebaker had suicide rear doors. I always think of them as 'drive-in movie doors'.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Hardtop station wagons came and went in IIRC 2 or 3 years.

I meant something fully pillarless, like those extended-cab trucks, but with the rear doors opening independently from the front doors. Useful to the older family members to get in and out of the car more easily, or to load some bulky items.

[jcp123]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I'm with you on this one. The split manifold has a ratty exhaust note, maybe a 6 into three into one header?

But definitely a four-door with the rear doors suicided.

I wouldn't rule out headers. You're right, it's easy to make one of these sound too rappy instead of that smooth crackly sound.

Never thought about suiciding the doors before. I'm thinking there's got to be more than a few cars that would look neat on...

[freebeard]

The car I saw it on, in a magazine, was a 1956 Chevy 4-door wagon. Grouping the door handles together gives it a clean look, like the Lincoln Continental. Or this:



cRiPpLe_rOoStEr — I guess I'd have to see a picture. Honda Element?


http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017...his-honda.html

[jcp123]

Yup I agree, getting those door handles together is a tight, concise look. But you still have to be judicious on what you give that treatment to. Doing it to a car that people know of as looking one way, and doing it another way, leads to a bit of shock. So in my mind, you have to be really discerning of what that might look good on.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Honda Element?

Though I have seen only one of those with Bolivian plates roaming around in my hometown some years ago, and was not quick enough to pick my phone and take a few pictures, that's close to what I had in mind, even though its rear doors are quite too short to enhance practicality as a conventionally-sized rear door would do.

[gumby79]

Budget: nasa nsa and dod budgets combined
Purpose : as close to an all in 1 as I can muster
Wood truck(capable of 3000lbs and 1core of wood space under the cap), rally car, commuter, Bonneville top speed and road corce. Seat 4 comfortably.
Mpge ??
Mpg diesel 50+ empty . Loaded to gross 20mpg.

I would start with a mid 90's to curent GMC 1 ton 4x4 cab and Chassis wrecker equipped ( this means heavier frame and fish plated renforfed typically crew cab longwheel base . )there is a turm for it I dont remember it .... the reason for the chasie would be to correctly support the Cummins Engine in a low stance capable of working just as hard as any flatbed pickup truck out there. Providing a market for the pices parts of the total design. It would also be capable of Bonneville runs and SCCA National Solo Road Corce, Dreem Big Chisel Down To Reality, Pikes Peek . Front would be kept torsion bar, but have a robotic servo adjusting the pre load /ride height at each corner separately. This would be controlled by an on bord super computer . 3 axis G Froce compensating ride hight and camber, aka it leans into the corner like a Sprint Car on a high bank clay track. The spindles would be custom HMMWV type portal hub with a Hi- lo planetary reduction to tuck the suspension up inside the bodywork. She would be able to hike her skirt up for more groung clearance/suspension travle. in inclement weather . Theas would be powered by Tesla type 400 hp drive system.
Now repeat for the rear as a inline series hybrid callable of all Diesel' all battery electric, genset/ electric and battery/Diesel. Classes . The engine would be controled in ways that would take pages/books to wright. But the short and sweet. A multi fule ,like a old duce and a hafe. Each cylinder would be independently VGT turbocharged( with brushless dc charger/assistance seeTurbo as a charger?) and controled electric engine valves for infinite valve timing /compression . Basically 6 separate engines with a common crank. The connecting rods would be a computer controled variable length reducing pumping losses to 0 for cylinder deactivation and alowing for the sweet sopt to always be right there nomater what fuel is used.
The power plant could be isolated, upgraded as technology becomes able or eliminated all together when.... we figure out how to support the new electric demand that the rapid increase electric only cars as the vast majority of this power comes from oil/natral gas or nuclear power plants ,coal is phasing out. . We need that next step in the direction Nicole Tesla was playing with," abundant powerc , thats when human kind gets to level up so to speek. Why is Alchemy not cost effective? It takes to much power. Making it cost more than the return. Think of what we could do.

With the advint of the Li glass Batteries ability to sustain charging at real cold below 0f . Even more important super fast charge capacity were 1 step closer to a battery that is faster than a capacitor , and holds more with a larger operating temperature range.

The cab would seat 4full size adults I'm 6'3" 200lbs as a reference be a carben nano tube reinforced carbon fiber safty tub full cage for when things go hay wire pushing the envelop at Bonneville were talking 200+mpg. streetable well manored.

body shape
Think templet ish with a huge Bonneville spoiler, that will be the back of the flat bed and diffuser between the tires. The back would open like my curent toper to alow 5th wheel attachment the cap would Russian doll to the profile of the trailer and adjust for turning eliminating the trailer truck gap . Or act as a fairing for a bumper pull.

Tangent
. Could use an electromagneticly controlable fabric to make the shape and since money is no object supercomputers can be on board to control. Based on real time. laser scans of the particulates in the air to get the ultimate aero shape at any speed or cross wind . The hole skin could be this stuff and be incorporated into tbe suspension controls to apply down force were needed and only as much as is needed.

Back to reality
The shape would be held out off the cage in a carbin fiber energy absorbing geodetic Matrix reminiscent of the ,think rubin is racing or everyone has a bad day at the track and I want to walk away from it ,or the ID 10 T key holders on the road. Similer to
www.vintagewings.ca/.

Well have I described a Picasso?
O well I've forgotten the ear.
PS
A picture is worth a thousand words , wish I was a better artist. Theas things dont exist yet just have to be paciant and let technology kechup. With a helpfull poke every now and again .
Ejoy the mind candy.
Dream Big Chisel Down To Reality

[sidecar]

Originally Posted by gumby79

A picture is worth a thousand words , wish I was a better artist. Theas things dont exist yet just have to be paciant and let technology kechup. With a helpfull poke every now and again .
Ejoy the mind candy.
Dream Big Chisel Down To Reality

Wellington Bomber geodesic airframe designed by Barnes Wallis
early model as it doesnt have a mid upper turret

[SH@UN]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Hardtop station wagons came and went in IIRC 2 or 3 years.

My 1950 Studebaker had suicide rear doors. I always think of them as 'drive-in movie doors'.

That is an amazingly cool car.