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Paper Craft Rally Cars Highlight Shapes Of Speed

There's not much that's cooler than a Paper Craft model. Using nothing but a couple of sheets of paper, some glue and enormous amounts of time, compressed wood pulp aficionados are able to create incredibly accurate scale models of just about anything. Paper Craft is also a detailed study on the forms and shapes of everyday objects, breaking them down into components capable of being created from right angles. Take these rally cars for instance. Disassembled, you don't get accurate representations of body panels and wheels, but rather surfaces, shapes and colors. [via Saturn.dti.ne.jp]

6:00 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Wes Siler
4,092 views, 30 comments

Latest by Dr.Danger is in Denial: @mattEGTx: Nope, It is a Stratos Group 5. The 037 had the Martini Livery and didn't have that narrow front'end. more »

flying cars

Cell Craft Flying Cars Will Be the Future, Once Inventor Does More Inventing

Gino d'Ignazio Gizio has a dream. A dream where the average person has access to his or her own flying car. A dream where long commutes are a thing of the past and people take to the skies at 350mph with the freedom and ease we currently enjoy in our land-based cars (as long as we don't live someplace where there's, you know, traffic). Gino wants his Cell Craft to facilitate that dream. The problem, he hasn't quite figured out how it works yet.

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12:45 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Wes Siler
1,664 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: One flaw I've always seen in flying cars... Standard land vehicles have a tendency to break down after how many decades of existence? Granted they're generally reliable, but it only takes one breakdown when you're hundreds if not thousands of more »

a noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy!

Boyd Coddington RV Mired at Bonneville

Gazing at images of Speed Week at Bonneville one might think the surface an impenetrable layer of white salt. In fact the salt is a relatively thin crust floating on a lake of mud. Boyd Coddington and accompanying American Hot Rod television crew found this out the hard way when their white whale of an RV broke through the salt on the return road. The first two wreckers called in were mired attempting to extract the RV. The legendary Big Blue was summoned to sort out the mess, but it too ended up askew in the landscape. Three tow trucks and a crew minivan driven into a taut steel cable later, a fourth tow truck packing three rear axles finally managed to unearth the RV, and the fallen tow trucks. One of the drivers was overheard lamenting, "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!" [National T-Bucket Alliance](Images: Ron Christensen)

3:38 PM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
4,877 views, 37 comments

Latest by brandegee: I guess this takes the heat off the Top Gear guys for hooning it out on the salt flats of Namibia. I guessing they weren't able to do quite so much damage. more »

retro

Tale of a Project Car: The Car Craft 'Cuda

Remember the days when Chrysler would simply hand enthusiast journalists cars that would eventually sell in the 6-7 figures range? Yeah, we don't either because we weren't born yet. But we do remember when one could buy a HemiCuda cheap. Ro McGonegal recounts the tale of the '71 Car Craft 426-inch Plymouth E-Body, which as of Ro's last recollection, rotting on the roof of a body shop up in Sunland, CA. Maybe we should dispatch Bumbeck to go scan the rooftops for telltale rust flakes and then take 'em to Barrett-Jackson. More »

9:30 PM on Thu Aug 3 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
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