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Misc Forums => LSR General Chat => Topic started by: Vishnuatepork on July 15, 2011, 04:21:16 AM
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I ran across this streamliner a few months ago. I am wondering if anybody here recognizes it? I would love some more details.
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The setting looks Eurorean...
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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For some reason I think it is a pedal bike ... made those guys know.
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The tires sure look small, don't they? And behind "UTAH 1" there's some small lettering that I can't read. It might tell us what we want to know.
Didja notice the turntable for the streetcar?
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Judging by the cars it is in America but it is late 70s or early 80s.
I think the first word is university so maybe it was an engineering class project?
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The setting looks Eurorean...
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
I thought so too, I was thinking it was either a Dodge Omni or a VW Rabbit. But Back them alot of the little cars looked the same. Who knows..
Yup, noticed the street car turn table too.
I think it would be heavy for a pedal bike. If its a motorbike, then I want to know wheres the engine, and how do they get power to the rear wheel?
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Piece of cake:
One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990 (http://books.google.dk/books?id=OuMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Luigi+Colani+%2BUTAH-1&source=bl&ots=r0m4cp9L8R&sig=2gnF8YpcGMPQ6r0wzkSbLeh4ino&hl=da&ei=YosgTvn0DIzcsga7uZWzAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Luigi%20Colani%20%2BUTAH-1&f=false)
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I think he was the one who brought some "ideas" to the salt in the '80s(?). One was a motorcycle with a transparent woman's body. As I remember, you looked out thru the snatch (no, I didn't mean hatch).
Stan
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Stan, that'd make for one strange-looking contraption, wouldn't it? Have you got any photos - of the bike or the "body"?
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Yeah -- but I don't know how to digitize them, let alone post them. Could send it to the Doctor, but knowing him, he probably has a whole reel.
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"One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani"
...so, it's a Colonic. :-D
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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Piece of cake:
One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990 (http://books.google.dk/books?id=OuMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Luigi+Colani+%2BUTAH-1&source=bl&ots=r0m4cp9L8R&sig=2gnF8YpcGMPQ6r0wzkSbLeh4ino&hl=da&ei=YosgTvn0DIzcsga7uZWzAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Luigi%20Colani%20%2BUTAH-1&f=false)
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Well thankyou!!!!!!!!! In the back of my mind I could have said it looked familiar...but when you get older and youve seen lots, you see patterns. Now I know why
Funny when you mention Luigi, I still think he is one of our time most ambitious designers.
I used to have a whole stack of PM magazines. That issue still stands out as one of my favs. I kept that one along with a handful of other when I moved from the magazines on the bottom rack, to the top rack. I thought his designs were way above anything else at the time. Its been years since I thought about his designs. Thankyou. His planes and trains are some of the most ambitious since Howard Hughes.
I wonder what happened to it?
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/02/06/colanis-speed-bike/
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eccentric guy...
http://wn.com/Future_Cars_Luigi_Colani_Speed_Cars
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Strasburgs had Colani's Corvette and his Diesel truck for quite a while. The Corvette might still be around their shop but I havent seen the big rig for several years.
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Piece of cake:
One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990 (http://books.google.dk/books?id=OuMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Luigi+Colani+%2BUTAH-1&source=bl&ots=r0m4cp9L8R&sig=2gnF8YpcGMPQ6r0wzkSbLeh4ino&hl=da&ei=YosgTvn0DIzcsga7uZWzAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Luigi%20Colani%20%2BUTAH-1&f=false)
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Well thankyou!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome !
I used to have a whole stack of PM magazines...
As a teenager, in the early seventies, I used to sit in the library for hours
going through year after year of Popular Mechanics issues.
SO much stuff to dream about, to dazzle the mind....and to learn from.
It build in my, and my friends minds a deep admiration
for especially American ingenuity and sense of enterprise.
Everything was possible if you set your mind to it.
an eccentric guy...
Indeed...absolutely brilliant and slightly nuts.
All the more power to guys like him !
We need them.
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