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Title: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Der Jude on March 21, 2011, 07:06:11 PM
put a single 30 mm on the front and we're in business

if theyre willing to put a b29 i figure anything ridiculous is acceptable

~Jude


PS.. and dont forget to put a big arse star of david on the side
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: kilo2 on March 21, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
 :rofl
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: StokesAk on March 21, 2011, 07:50:05 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: lyric1 on March 21, 2011, 08:18:25 PM
1st in. :aok
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: PFactorDave on March 21, 2011, 08:43:04 PM
We now know what the next special Convention plane will be!
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Devil 505 on March 21, 2011, 09:22:41 PM
Is that the best flying movie car you can think of? I would like the Winnebago from Spaceballs.
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Der Jude on March 22, 2011, 03:26:21 AM
Is that the best flying movie car you can think of? I would like the Winnebago from Spaceballs.

well im talking about the flying cars that look most european for now. id sooner consider the delorean(italian) from "black to the future" than adding another allied aircraft like the flying wannabango(american). Although i wouldnt consider the delorean because time travel is unfair in a dogfight. you could just go back in time and clear your own six. totally unfair in my opinion. dont even get me started on the jetsons.
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Imowface on March 22, 2011, 03:31:24 AM
Just because the guy who helped design it is italian, does not mean it is italian, Italian people are smart enough to know that building a car made of stainless steel is a retarded idea
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: fullmetalbullet on March 22, 2011, 05:35:34 AM
i win lol
(http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/9/8553/thumb_620x2000/gta-vc_2007-11-14_03-08-59-95.jpg)

now we just need a sheep cannon to go with it and bam. the perfect buff killer.
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: VonMessa on March 22, 2011, 06:46:16 AM
Just because the guy who helped design it is italian, does not mean it is italian, Italian people are smart enough to know that building a car made of stainless steel is a retarded idea

...because Fiat's are brilliantly engineered cars...  :noid

A car that doesn't rust, corrode, need compounding/waxing, has modular body panels that any idiot can change and can be made to look showroom new in moments with some elbow grease and a nylon scrubby pad?  What a horrible idea  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: VonMessa on March 22, 2011, 06:54:48 AM
put a single 30 mm on the front and we're in business

if theyre willing to put a b29 i figure anything ridiculous is acceptable

~Jude


PS.. and dont forget to put a big arse star of david on the side

Do you prefer any particular color?

BTW, Happy Purim!!

(MY hamentaschen, get your own) the bookkeeper at work brought these for me and said I do not have to share    :P

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/Hamen.jpg)
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Imowface on March 22, 2011, 12:38:03 PM
...because Fiat's are brilliantly engineered cars...  :noid

A car that doesn't rust, corrode, need compounding/waxing, has modular body panels that any idiot can change and can be made to look showroom new in moments with some elbow grease and a nylon scrubby pad?  What a horrible idea  :rolleyes:
so why arnt all cars made with stainless steel body panels von?
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: VonMessa on March 22, 2011, 02:04:16 PM
so why arnt all cars made with stainless steel body panels von?

Not cost effective.

They don't wear out. (wonder why cars today do not last nearly as long as they used to?  Designed obsolescence, anyone?)

The company couldn't stay solvent at the price it was selling it's cars at.  They cost more to produce than originally expected and therefore the market price had to follow suit.

John Delorean's reputation was besmirched by false accusations and very bad press, all of which he recovered from personally, but by the time it was found out that it was all untrue, the company was in shambles.

Their is still a thriving, vibrant community of Delorean DMC-12 owners and, in fact, one can still buy or assemble by one's self, a "new" DMC-12 utilizing unused OEM parts that were produced but never assembled at the plant.

http://www.delorean.com/ (http://www.delorean.com/)

(PS:  That is not the only car he ever designed.  Ever heard of a Pontiac GTO?   :rock   )


Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Imowface on March 22, 2011, 02:23:11 PM
He designed alot of nice cars, the delorean peformance wise was a POS tho, back to the future could bnever have worked because during a road test, the delorean could not reach 88mph, It is a nice car I guess, I just dislike it, but as for th designer I have owned one of his works and consider it one of the greatest cars ever built
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: VonMessa on March 22, 2011, 02:45:51 PM
He designed alot of nice cars, the delorean peformance wise was a POS tho, back to the future could bnever have worked because during a road test, the delorean could not reach 88mph, It is a nice car I guess, I just dislike it, but as for th designer I have owned one of his works and consider it one of the greatest cars ever built

Agreed.

I hear they  :airplane: with a Porsche motor shoehorned into them, though  :devil
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Imowface on March 22, 2011, 03:28:38 PM
I would buy the gold plated one, but at 250 000$ I could also buy another maser  :lol
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: phatzo on March 22, 2011, 03:40:19 PM
The Delorean is Brittish and was only a prototype field modded by the Americans, its time travel abilities would make it perked in the order of millions. -1
Chitty Chitty Ban Bang would make a great early war flying car. +1
 :old:
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Shuffler on March 22, 2011, 04:48:18 PM
...because Fiat's are brilliantly engineered cars...  :noid

A car that doesn't rust, corrode, need compounding/waxing, has modular body panels that any idiot can change and can be made to look showroom new in moments with some elbow grease and a nylon scrubby pad?  What a horrible idea  :rolleyes:

Stainless does corrode :D
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Ripsnort on March 22, 2011, 05:05:49 PM
put a single 30 mm on the front and we're in business

if theyre willing to put a b29 i figure anything ridiculous is acceptable

Sounds like the next Evil Con mission!!!
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Dichotomy on March 22, 2011, 05:07:32 PM
Stainless does corrode :D

SHHHH!!!!! some of my customers don't think that and spec stainless steel anchor bolts to prevent rusting.  I make bank on the mark up ;)
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Muzzy on March 22, 2011, 05:51:56 PM
Dude all we need is a good supply of flubber and you can fly your own dang car!
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Der Jude on March 22, 2011, 11:08:32 PM
Dude all we need is a good supply of flubber and you can fly your own dang car!

ok the flying car from flubber is something i can cosign with. :banana: Btw thanks vonmessa. Happy belated purim.
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: phatzo on March 22, 2011, 11:58:08 PM
SHHHH!!!!! some of my customers don't think that and spec stainless steel anchor bolts to prevent rusting.  I make bank on the mark up ;)
Do you use the term "Tea Staining" a lot.
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 23, 2011, 01:17:23 AM
Not cost effective.

They don't wear out. (wonder why cars today do not last nearly as long as they used to?  Designed obsolescence, anyone?)

The company couldn't stay solvent at the price it was selling it's cars at.  They cost more to produce than originally expected and therefore the market price had to follow suit.

John Delorean's reputation was besmirched by false accusations and very bad press, all of which he recovered from personally, but by the time it was found out that it was all untrue, the company was in shambles.

Their is still a thriving, vibrant community of Delorean DMC-12 owners and, in fact, one can still buy or assemble by one's self, a "new" DMC-12 utilizing unused OEM parts that were produced but never assembled at the plant.

http://www.delorean.com/ (http://www.delorean.com/)

(PS:  That is not the only car he ever designed.  Ever heard of a Pontiac GTO?   :rock   )




Kinda reminds me of the story of the Tucker.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tucker-cars.htm

(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/tucker-cars-1.jpg)
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: Imowface on March 23, 2011, 01:19:52 AM
My favorite car from a failure company has to be the bricklen SV-1
(http://www.aussiemotoring.com/pics/Bricklin/vin2355.jpg)
Title: Re: The Flying Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Post by: VonMessa on March 23, 2011, 06:26:05 AM
Kinda reminds me of the story of the Tucker.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tucker-cars.htm

(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/tucker-cars-1.jpg)

One of my favorite cars.

Brilliantly innovative, implementing technology and safety measures that have become standard today.  :aok

A sterling example of how big business will do anything possible to quash the innovative entrepreneur regardless of how better/safer the final product is for the consumer if it will affect their bottom line.

There is one at the car museum in Lancaster, PA (near Miller's Restaurant for lack of a better landmark)

Ingenious :rock