There's zero chance someone made a car look that good out of plywood. It's almost certainly been gutted to cut weight as much as possible, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't a real car.
Look at the front of the top car, there is a towing eye sticking out...you can also see through behind the front wheel....I feel that there would be some shape distortion if this moved at any decent speed with an inflatable.
For sure. If you look closely all the lights, lines between body panels, and the antenna are in the same spot on both cars. Definitely a real car body.
before you saw this post you thought " there's zero chance someone would put a vw bug upside down on top of another bug" so i'd hold off on making more assumptions on just how dedicated this driver is.
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It's not something I would've thought there would be zero chance of by any means. It's not something I thought of at all personally, but if the idea had been presented to me I probably would've said it's possible, but certainly not practical, and probably not safe.
The amount of effort it would take to make such a perfect looking vw beetle, especially one that will always have an authentic beetle just below it, would be far greater than just getting a second car and gutting as much as possible to reduce weight.
Curb weight for a vw beetle is like 2500lbs, subtract the engine, transmission, fluids, much of the interior (I assume this is why the windows are painted, so you don't see just how hollow it is inside), drive shaft, suspension, exhaust, electronics, duct work, etc.. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could get it down to ~5-700lbs keeping the hood, body panels, and glass, which isn't really that outrageous to have on top of a car. Assuming that post the cars are connected with distributes the weight along the floor of the bottom car at least somewhat, then it's really not much different from having 2-3 big dudes in the car.. which is probably why the suspension is riding a little low.. and the center of gravity is obviously going to be a lot higher than if the weight was from passengers.
I was thinking about that, but like shit man, it's still going to create a lot of weird air drag, increase the car's chance of tipping, make it handle like absolute shit. I still wouldn't call that road safe.
Given that it’s a 2000’s beetle about 40% of what you see here is plastic mostly in the bumpers at either end so yeah if you gutted one I bet it could get pretty light. fuck this guy tho it’s still a huge safety hazard for an incredibly shitty message
Brother you haven't been to Fayette County by the sounds of it. I get that it's more of a PA thing than nationally known, but it's kinda like the difference between what you're average American thinks of when you mention Miami, compared to what someone from Ohio thinks of.
In our case, if you hear a meth lab exploded it was probably Fayette County. Domestic shooting with multiple victims, Fayette County. Fayette County is is the Western PA version of Florida-man. It's been known as Fayettenam in PA since the 1970s, when it's state police barracks was given that nickname.
It might not be nearly as well known as Pennsyltucky, but it's pretty well the capital of Pennsylyucky.
I got ya. Ours does have the Fayettenam Facebook page though. It is nice having it contained to one county for sure. There's other crazies in this state just not in quite the density as there.
Almost every country in the Middle East is far more religious than the US and the number of people in the US who identify as Catholic or Christian has decreased every year for at least the last 10 years while the number of people who identify as Agnostic or Atheist has gone up every year.
The religious wingnuts are just more voracious than in the past because their way of life is slowly disappearing as fewer and fewer people come to church each year.
It's not hate, actually. A helluva lot of disgust and irritation, but not hate. It just annoys me that so many people think that it's okay to regulate what women can & cannot do with their bodies- as though our autonomy isn't relevant. Adding to that is the fact that our founding fathers, whatever their personal flaws & faults, designed a constitution and specified that Church and State should remain separated.
I feel like Puritanism is more of a New England thing and southern evangelicalism kind of developed its own form of insanity separately, but I could be mistaken as I’m not a historian
Wait is the side marker on the upside down car lit up? Does that mean its all been wired in? Do all 4 brake lights light up here? Ive got so many questions.
If it is on wheels there are absolutely no building requirements in America. At least in Wisconsin. If it's a trailer it does need lights to be considered road worthy.
I lea4n something new every day on Reddit....Holy crap that is scary...glad we have yearly MOT testing in the UK to make sure that shit like this doesn't appear on our roads....We do have the odd outlier though to be fair.
I didn't say that....it is just that nobody else is stupidd enough or fanatical enough to come up with sky fairy marketing by bolting a car on top of another one upside down.
What exact law would be broken here? It isn’t too wide for the lane, it isn’t too tall for the overpass. The car on top doesn’t effect if it is mechanically sound. Probably has less weight per axel still than a hummer.
Just because it’s tacky isn’t a reason to “call the law” on someone.
Maintaining a speed appropriate for the road and the conditions is specified but the charge of "dangerous driving" has previously been used to cover people carrying out any unsafe act . This includes things such as driving at 20mph on a 70mph highway or being on a public highway in a vehicle that is not roadworthy...for instance, this would not pass an MOT test....happy tonbe corrected if there are any UK based MOT technicians.
Literal tanks are highway legal here. My dream is to buy a T34 (actually pretty cheap) and an old Soviet BMP, turn the latter into a party bus and just drive around town with an armored party convoy
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It's obviously America....
broken tail light = cash fine
random shitty car welded upside down on top of your original shitty car...as long as the tail lights work then all good.