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Spider Car

Posted May 02, 2007 5:13 PM

From Random Good Stuff - The Entertainment Blog:

This is not the Spidermobil (not the Batmobil either.. get it .. ) it's just a Spidercar and needs to go into production! Costing $15,000 and twice that amount in work hours, this novel creation took three months to design and six months to build.

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05/03/2007 11:33 PM

Ok! Doesn't seem to practical and needs rubber shoes on those metal feet. Might be a good climber on uneven ground, and with big feet might be usefull on soft ground.
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05/04/2007 12:41 AM

There is something to be said for simplicity.

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05/04/2007 6:49 AM

Yeah, not very practical, but I KNOW they had fun designing and building it!

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05/04/2007 10:11 PM

An expensive time consuming exercise in mechanical & other engineering disciplines and it is still a clunky, clumsy, loco-mobile.

About as useful as the buttons on boar's belly!

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05/04/2007 11:38 PM

Yes, and your point?

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05/05/2007 8:03 AM

Do nothing simply if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful!

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05/07/2007 6:08 PM

What an extreme example of inspired mechanics. Wow!

Especially loved the dime-turns. Granted, it might do better on dirt than on asphalt, but - hey, that's what it's for.

Wow!
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05/08/2007 6:01 AM

This guy should be a national hero ! Leaving bare metal feet for maximum effect was inspired. I'd love to go cruising in Spider-Car , it's cool.

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