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Car modification that simulates that ancient crap-car gag. Upon taking the keys out of the ignition the car ignites a small quantity of gunpowder out of a faux exhaust at the back with a satisfyingly sudden bang! and a plume of smoke.
Then the doors fall off, or seem to. They are actually designed
just to open downwards, but swiftly, as if with gravity.
Finally the hydraulics kick in, first slumping over the front left wheel, and then all of the others collapse at once. The wheels on the axles tilt outwards at the same time to seem like they have been disjointed from the axle. The icing is the bonnet wrenching open and a puff of white smoke emanating from somewhere in the engine.
When you want to leave the hydraulics push back up, the bonnet shuts, the wheels realign, and the doors lift back in to position.
Good for rocking up at swanky parties, for people who don't like door handles, to irritate hotel doormen and for naked apiarists.
Houston's art cars
http://www.orangeshow.org/artcar.html [theleopard, Sep 04 2007]
crash dummie toys on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com...19181QQcmdZViewItem [dentworth, Sep 04 2007]
For [k_sra]...
Dishwashing_20Liqui...0Bubble_20Dispenser Because it was a naked bee-keeper who gave me the idea. [theleopard, Sep 04 2007]
Explosive Body Panels
Explosive_20Body_20Panels kinda halfbaked [discontinuuity, Sep 04 2007]
Time to reconsider the rustproofing?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WMDz8SwNWoA A TV commercial for Canadian Tire (aka Crappy Tire) [Canuck, Sep 05 2007]
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There is an... entity known as an "Art Car" native to the Houston metropolis. I think this would be a very successful example. |
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Would also go down well at Burning Man, I imagine. |
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This would be the bitchinest camero at burning man if it ran on biodiesel or recycled birkinstocks or hemp seeds and stems or something. |
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Why is this under Home-Kitchen-Sink? |
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I'd like to see the doors actually separate from the car, could be a simple spring loaded latch that lets go, doors can be re hung and the spring reloaded like the toy, crash dummies/ cars. |
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Ooops... hold on a sec [phundug]... |
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why didn't I think of this? |
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Would anyone care to defend the bakidity of this for me, because I'm having trouble. |
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(That sentence is one of those moments when I could really do with one of those half-question marks...) |
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<scampers off to anno the appropriate idea> |
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[xandram], how many times have I asked you not to do handstands at your desk? |
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At least not while wearing that skirt. |
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ha, you guys.
Usually they say, "could you pick up that pencil on the floor?"
or this croissant? + |
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When does a performance piece become a terrorist act? |
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Wow, that's going to be some punch line. |
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so this is just for effect? not a theft deterrant? |
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why only naked bee-keepers? |
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[xandram] Think of the children! I'll be over here trying to think about baseball. |
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It could be a theft deterrent, sure, just leave collapsed and no-one would bother touching it. You'd have to take your stereo out, but everyone does that already. |
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<drinking now> misreading things like: baked knee-beepers
theft detergents
looking for the answer to :When does a performance piece become a terrorist act?
ans: When their act makes it to Broadway.
[GutPunch] waiting in line for some punch. |
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and [G_C] in a baseball cap...
oh heck, I might as well be driving one of these cars, too. |
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<Laughs entirely too loud, shocking the dog, neice and sister> |
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Then spend an hour explaining the bakery to them and why a car that goes boom and all the doors fall off is a great idea. |
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Is this getting close to what you mean? (see link) |
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Makes me think of the SNL commercial for the 'Lexus Chameleon XLE'... tried to find a video of it, but I failed miserably. The premise was brilliant, though. Lexus on the inside, 72 Ford LTD 2 on the outside. Theft deterrent by way of just looking crappy. Included optional theft deterrent system, which when the button was pressed on the key fob made the whole car shudder, half-collapse and appear as though a wheel had fallen off. Anyone else remember that?
Still, similar but different. I like it. |
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Great link [Canuck]
you're welcome [evil]- I should sometimes repay the wonderful folks who having me laughing so hard, too. |
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//who having me laughing// |
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dearie, are you drunk or foreign? or both? |
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Easy, [k_sra]; we're all foreigners here (though not all foreign to the same set of countries). |
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[21] only bones this because he skipped the annos. That's what I think. |
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[k_sra] oops, that one was early morning, sometimes the same as being drunk. I won't fix it now, but thanks for making me laugh at myself. |
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[xandram], i completely understand.
[pertinax], i meant foreign to the language, of course. i'll be more specific next time. : P |
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btw, I have always wanted to be *foreign*.
I also cannot get very drunk anymore, as I have Type 1 diabetes and have to limit myself to two drinks. Sometimes with uneven blood sugar levels, it causes me to be *tipsy* without drinking. |
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hmmm, you *are* foreign, [xan], as [impertinax] pointed out, you just have to go elsewhere to get it. and i have the same alcohol tolerance point as you. two max, but thankfully i don't have the diabetes to contend with. i guess i won't be sending you a chocolate pudding cake for christmas after all. : ( |
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Just for the record, since we're talking about a chocolate pudding cake here; I *don't* have diabetes. |
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Better than the doors opening up [21]. Have you not seen the Back To The Future series? How many times does either Doc Emmet Brown or Marty McFly bang their head getting out of the Delorean? |
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Despite the fact that neither of us have ever counted, or indeed are likely to, I'm sure you'll agree the facts speak for themselves. |
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I understand from Sacha Baron Cohen that the best way to appear foreign is to grow a mustache and never clean your suit. |
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Actually the best way to look foreign is to grow a suit (wool) and never clean your mustache. |
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