cool things found at Greyhandgang.com

What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?

Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion

Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would

I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle

A street car used to build artificial reefs

The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964

An Autogyro over New York

a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before

looks like El Mirage

What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I think

via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

A variety of cool stuff from Fantomatik75 blogspot

Never seen a primitive street sweeper before? Me neither

1936 Chicago, why aren't these viable parking stuctures now?

Looks like a knife sharpener, door to door, and probably early 1910's or 1920's

Unknown type of classic pre-1920's

Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/

One wheel machine from Burning Man '02... where is it now?

Above Jake Lyall's RIOT wheel at the 2003 Burning Man Festival.
This chunky 1100-pound machine is Jake Lyall's RIOT (Re-Invention Of The) wheel. Lyall's monowheel is unusual because it does not use the rider's weight to provide the reaction to the engine's thrust on the wheel. Instead the rider is outside, and the reaction is given by a lead-weighted Honda 80cc 4-stroke scooter engine suspended from a central shaft, driving through a sprocket attached to the wheel spokes. A separate 450-pound counterweight keeps the rider hovering above the ground at the front. Steering is done partly by precessing a 65-pound gyroscope to give yaw, and partly by the rider shifting his weight.
read about, and check out the cut away drawings of it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl5.htm

Via: http://ottonero.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

one wheel dragster madness

Via: http://stipistop.com/

Has to be a homemade trailer... cute! (I was corrected... see below)

Via: http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/
The trailer is of east european origin, polish or czech. Its originally intended for motorcycles.

One of my favorite photos, the MV Augusta 60cc Monomoto Superleggera

Above photo from http://gustavoleme.blogspot.com/2009/04/monocicleta.html and the info that this is to be found at Bob's BMW Motorcycles 10720th Guilford Rd Jessup MD 20794-9385

bottom photo via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/2007/11/not-so-true-story-of-mv-augusta-60cc.html

The machine is not rideable.
“This MV Augusta 60cc Monomoto Superleggera is the experimental machine ridden by young wealthy Italian Luiggi Bandini, during practice for the 1954 Milano-Taranto Road Race. Bandini tragically lost control in a misty mountain section, while waving to a pretty spectator. His grief stricken father, Count Enzio Bandini, “The Falcon,” never again permitted anyone to ride or even view this advanced design, and knowledge of its whereabouts faded. Eventually, rumors of this fascinating machine reached the motorcycling bon vivant Todd Fell. On a trip to Naples, Italy, his quest to find it was rewarded at the Bandini country villa, where in 2004, fifty years after the tragic accident, the late Count’s family was persuaded to part with the treasure.”
from http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2007/2007_early_consignments.htm via: http://cars.failblog.org/2010/10/15/funny-car-photos-ccs-of-steam/

I posted this back in March 07: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/03/cool-photos.html and I believe you will enjoy looking through this blog all the way back for stuff like this one wheel motorcycle

I just dig the humor Feng pins on odd photos

http://www.fengtastic.com/?p=895

A full description of Charles Taylor and his lifelong one wheel development ideas: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/charles-f-taylors-one-wheel-vehicles.html The vehicle was patented by him in 1964