Category: Weird Seen

Sports Car Market Magazine has an article of a tragedy not too far from my home. A half-million dollar Bugatti, destroyed by fire.

Grown men cried I’m sure.

More apologies for my lack of blogging of late… been exceedingly busy at work.

–chuck

eBay Motors: Jaguar : XKE (item 300039703867 end time Oct-28-06 14:38:23 PDT)

Oh. My. Gawd.

This one has been under discussion on the E-type mailing list. The seller says it is a “parts car”… but look closely at the engine bay photo. The fire was so hot it melted the aluminum cam covers!

Ouch.

Redline Batmobile demonstration

I’m completely hooked on this new racing game from Ambrosia Software called “Redline”… it is VERY well done from a physics perspective. Just like driving a real car it is a little weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, you can chuck the cars around the track pretty well. The cars all behave like you would expect them to, with FWD understeer and RWD oversteer, and AWD… well… gripping. The game has racetracks and streets and dirt and snow… all behaving like they should. The only intrusion into unreality is the lack of crash damage, and the physical limit of the track itself.

Then along came the .. “batmobile.” It isn’t what you think. 😉

But it does make for fun with Physics!

Burger Run – Great Drives and Road Trips – Automobile Magazine

My kind of trip. BUT… if Sam wrote it, and Jeff was the co-driver… how did Robert take the pictures? Seems a bit contrived, but hey… I’ve done similar trips. 😉

Thanks to Tom for the link.

E-type going off of cliff:

From the classic 60’s flick “Danger: Diabolik!”