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A Camaro That Leaves A Wake
Artana Niveus Corvum writes "I came across this entirely at random, but it seems like someone with too much time on his hands has taken an old idea and improved on it... and come up with something truly unique and cool: a car based on a 2002 Camaro body with a Subaru WRX Turbo engine (300 horsepower) capable of going over 125MPH that doubles as a boat capable of going over 40MPH."
2 below-threshold comments and it's down ... come on people, you're like the hand of a vengeful god of websites!
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
This will sure resolve all those commuter issues in Venice.
40MPH? What's that in knots?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Wow, who would of thought THIS would ever be ON TOPIC?!?! Maybe he wasn't kidding?
"Uh, how you gonna get down to the shore?
Funny you should ask, I've got a car now.
Oh wow, how'd you get a car?
Oh, my parents drove it up here from the Bahamas.
You're kidding!
I must be, the Bahamas are islands, okay, the important thing now, is
that you ask me what kind of car I have.
Uh, what kinda car do ya got?
I've got a
BITCHIN CAMARO!....."
(go find the MP3... legaly of course)
~Z
It's like a case mod made to look like a can of Hamm's.
I'm a friend of a friend of the working class.
Looks like we sunk his battleship.. err, server
Slashdot sucks
Does anyone know of a mass produced land/water capable vehicle past or present? I wonder if there would be a market large enough to justify an assembly line for these things.
Unless of course the make amphibious SUVs, the exhaust contributes to global warming, which raises the water level, which makes them useful.
Where do I get one?
Is a scanning red light on the front, and they'd have Knight Boat!
As long as there's always a canal, that is.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
A post about a car that isn't turned into a robot, Star Wars ship, or anime something or other!
...geez, did it really *have* to be a Camaro?
I mean come on, that's like spending tens of thousands on a high end stereo and on room acoustics, then playing the Beastie Boys.
Do we not yet realize that all slashdotters do is look at pictures and google doesn't tend to cache those?
She looks like she's had a good mod job done as well, and fits in with the car nicely!
...Russia, they have built stuff like this And that wasn't the fastest one either. To make the long story short, if you want to be fast and amphibious, WIG all the way!
Does auto insurance cover accidents on the water?
A properly tuned LT1 can put out 500+ HP.
I have never heard of a turbo 4 cylinder having a "flatter power curve" than a modern V8. The V8 has a lot more HP at lower RPMS than the turbo 4 (hence more torque).
The only advantage of the STi engine is weight. On an aquatic vehicle, the extra torque of a V8 would not be of much help if it were 30ft below the surface, and diving fast.
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
Granted, he did a little more than strap some 55 gallon drums on the side as pontoons. But time is a luxury when you're fleeing from the clutches of a ruthless dictator.
Open Source Java DAO Generator
Yeah, and if it doesn't run linux or have an iPod built in it has no place here!
:-)
Please keep the novelty car-mod stories on topic
While I am willing to accept that this guy does indeed own this car, I can almost guarantee you that the girl riding with him in the pictures is a rental.
I'm sure if I drove my car at 125MPH into the water it, at some point, would be going 40MPH in the water.
Check out the floatation devices on the owner's girlfriend :p
That is truely a Bitchin' Camaro.
>>Say what you want about the guy, I bet he has no >>problem picking up chicks.
or mermaids...