[Closed] Cool looking machines

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The US Army Ripsaw

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Remote or manned vehicle with 0-60 in a claimed 3 seconds 😀

Also comes with a big gun on top instead

I always love how the primary design brief for airport fire trucks is 'make it look like it was designed by Jerry Anderson'

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The new ones are nice.

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But I prefer the old ones.

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Is it just me that finds this fascinating and terrifying?

almost eerily lifelike

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Thread winner!

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Then the little gun on the front of it.

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piedi di formaggio I got to sit in one of those as a kid. A family friend got an obsolete one from the RAF, all he had to do was pay to get it transported away! I don't suppose you could do that these days!
He was part of a group who dug up WWII aircraft around Sussex and Kent, I still have a 20mm cannon shell from a Spitfire he gave me but I can't find the bullets from the Stuka he also gave me. He also had a .5" Browning machine gun tucked away in barn on the farm where he kept the Lightning. His prize possesion though was a Spitfire Gun-sight

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more napier madness 🙂

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the difference engine
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though i'm not to sure about the g-clamps 🙂

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Southern Pacific AC-12 Cab Forward:

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more napier madness

I saw two Deltics being hauled on the West Coast Main Line near Crewe a few weeks back!

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ED-209.! We have a winner.

And technically not a machine but he was a machine and pretty f'kin cool.
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RustyS, that orange and black 8-wheeler; what [i]is[/i] that? Looks like something from the Department of WTF!
Love Macc's Fire trucks, especially the first one; I'd have a decommissioned one sans all the fire fighting equipment as personal transport; seriously cool.
As is the EE Lightning, and the Porsche 917!
Great stuff. 😀

IIRC the most complicated machine ever made

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This machine justifies having a Navy

Always loved the little Hagglund articulated tracked vehicle, but then I discovered this:

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http://www.army-technology.com/projects/dt-30-vityaz-articulated-tracked-vehicle/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

Even got it's own song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

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More creepy looking than cool but amazing for its age ... 240yo automaton

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Countdown to someone posting the ekranoplan...

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First time I saw one of these, I couldn't stop making the transformers ckkkk-ckkkk-ckkkk-ckkkk noise.

I always loved amphibious planes.

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piedi di formaggio I got to sit in one of those as a kid.

Ok SaxonRider, I'll see your amphibian, and raise you this one, and you get another, [i]seriously[/i] cool machine thrown in, one I've actually flown in:

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Northwind- an ekranoplan, now that is a fabulous beast! Not sure it is as cool looking as it actually is though... I keep thinking of cool machines, like a mechanical calculator, but it doesn't actually look that cool. Not like that difference engine anyway.

Wayne Gardner's Honda NSR500 from 1987.....

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I swear I almost jizzed my pants when I watched him race at Donnington 8)

Still the coolest race series (Moto GP) in the world FACT

Bertha, although heavily damaged after less than 200 rings drive in December 2013, and still sitting there after a single ring advance in February 2014...
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Not only cool looking and hugely powerful, but smooth, controllable and over one hundred years old. The River Don Engine at Kelham Island (at least, that's what I think it's called, I just remember watching it).

Love Macc's Fire trucks, especially the first one; I'd have a decommissioned one sans all the fire fighting equipment as personal transport; seriously cool.

Its a long shot but.... I do have a project proposal in the pipe line that involves buying one. Waiting to see if the client is nuts enough to go for it.

That's ace Tracker- loving the reversing

CZ, it's an [url= http://avtoros.info/en/all-terrain_vehicle/shaman ]Avtoros.[/url]

Found it whilst looking at Russian Trucks.

Anyone got a spare 7 and a half grand?
[url= http://www.russianmilitary.co.uk/details.php?headers=land&sub_headers=TRUCKS&id=222 ]This GAZ66 Expedition [/url]looks like a bargain....
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Tracker - you win the thread, although i understand she ought to be properly known as The [b]Mighty[/b] River Don Engine. The biggest engine in Europe.
There were four of these. One is in Japan, the other in the States (I think) - unbelievably perhaps the fourth is 'missing'. How do you lose something that size?
the reversing is indeed the clever bit - the reversing mechanism is operated without closing the throttle.

@CZ: That is a gorgeous amphibious. Is that a C-47 in the background? The RCAF was still using those in the 1980s. My house growing up was close to the Air Force base, and they flew over all the time. I was taught to admire them.

This is pretty impressive, it must be said:

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It was posted on a [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/coolest-service-vehicles ]similar thread to this one[/url], more than a year ago, by jock_muttley.

twicewithchips - Member

unbelievably perhaps the fourth is 'missing'. How do you lose something that size?

Charlie Broomfield's fitting it into a Rover SD-1, it's been in his garage ever since

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rw smith series 2 movement

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In another "big engineering" style, the Falkirk Wheel was mesmerising when I got up there to see it. Amazingly simple engineering on a huge scale, and well, it didn't need fins, or hoops over the top canal but it got them, because such things are cool!
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77cc model aeroengine

twicewithchips- it's the idea that they made a few, I would have assumed that it would be utterly custom! Now I want to go the the museum and find the serial number 🙂

@Tracker:

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also, @northwind - you owe me a keyboard, this one is full of tea.

The fact that this was designed in the sixties blows my mind

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Tracker +1
That's brought back some memories. As a kid I used to play in a brass band in Sheffield. Always had a gig around bonfire night at Kelham Island, and we played in the hall with the Don Engine. I have a very vivid recollection of the smell of the thing. We used to have to stop playing every half-hour or so when they did the demonstration. Scared the bejeesus out of me, but looking at it now it's wonderful.

I'd like one of these in the study.
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From my childhood, watching these go past occasionally on the West Coast main line...

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These days, with my two boys, it's these...

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Pocket-sized:

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Not pocket-sized:

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Ken's Box

i did some contract work for these guys (ABB robotics) back in the 1990's

fat beats and smoke rings

Caspian sea monster;
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Probably a good idea the cold war ended when it did.

if i ever win the lottery I could waste it all building a full size version of this....

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