You Auto Lay an Egg

Posted by Queuebot in Cartoon & Comic, Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on July 13, 2009 at 6:16 pm


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You Auto Lay an Egg (AKA It’s a Bird) is a 1930 short film by cartoonist Charley Bowers and directed by Harold L. Muller in which a freaky, talking, stop-motion bird lays an egg that hatches into a (real) full-size car.

It looks like they accomplished the trick by sawing the car into tiny bits frame by frame and then running the film backwards, but the results are truly astonishing however they were achieved (Remember, this is before the age of CGI). Set some time aside, because you’re probably going to watch this clip three time in a row.

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Half VW Half Opel Frankencar!

Posted by Queuebot in Car & Vehicle on June 25, 2009 at 12:36 am


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What do you get when you combine a bunch of technically inclined Romanians, half of a Volkswagen, and half of an Opel?  Something that looks ridiculously unsafe but really wickedly fun!  I think I like the name Vopel for it.

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Classic Gas-Guzzlers Reborn

Posted by Queuebot in Car & Vehicle, Everything Else, Gadget on January 28, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Polished chrome, a roaring engine and shimmering tail-fins; they sure don’t make ‘em like they used to, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Sure, classic cars are known for their durability, beautiful design and craftsmanship but they’re also infamous gas-guzzlers.

In Wichita, Kansas, Jonathan Goodwin says that may no longer have to be the case:

Goodwin is making a name for himself -- and his company, H-Line Conversions -- by turning gas-guzzling behemoths like Hummers, Cadillac Escalades, Jeeps and other big American cars into clean-power machines.

The first thing he does is remove the old inefficient engine -- even if it's a brand new vehicle -- and replace it with a diesel engine that can run on biodiesel.

"It's the transformation of what I call old technology to new technology," Goodwin says.

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