Comments on: Double Bullet on Wheels http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:27:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jeffery Wright http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-638225 Jeffery Wright Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:54:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-638225 jeepers, lookit the cans on that car... maybe this was the first car to wear a bra, as well? twin torpedoes... har! jeepers, lookit the cans on that car… maybe this was the first car to wear a bra, as well?

twin torpedoes… har!

]]> By: Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » twin-boom cars, accessories and Segway’s predecessor http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-9563 Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » twin-boom cars, accessories and Segway’s predecessor Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:52:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-9563 [...] Haven’t visited Modern Mechanix in a while. But, as it turns out, Europeans in the 1950s had some sort of kink for twin-boom cars: [...] [...] Haven’t visited Modern Mechanix in a while. But, as it turns out, Europeans in the 1950s had some sort of kink for twin-boom cars: [...]

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-5497 Stannous Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:09:43 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/02/double-bullet-on-wheels/#comment-5497 180 mph in an MG? On their narrow wheel stance and short base that is nuts! “The importance of my car,” Taruffi told me after the race, “is that it embodies many new principles that will become standard in automobiles ten years from now." It was important, also, for me to prove in a controlled test that my design is feasible because I wish to get financial support to build another, larger double-torpedo—one powered by a four-and-a-half litre Ferrari motors—for entry in your Indianapolis classic.” 180 mph in an MG?
On their narrow wheel stance and short base that is nuts!

“The importance of my car,” Taruffi told me after the race, “is that it embodies many new principles that will become standard in automobiles ten years from now.”

It was important, also, for me to prove in a controlled test that my design is feasible because I wish to get financial support to build another, larger double-torpedo—one powered by a four-and-a-half litre Ferrari motors—for entry in your Indianapolis classic.”

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