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BMW Designs A 42-Wheel, 19-Engine Car To Fulfill One Child's Fantasy

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Last night my 4-year-old Jalop of a nephew Eli and I had a serious conversation about the car he wants to build. I know there are a lot of talented artists out there in the Jalopnik commentariat, and I would like to ask them all if they would consider drawing up their "Artist's Conception" of the car according to the carefully considered specifications he came up with. I would just love to give him a tangible expression of what his awesome imagination came up with. If anyone is particularly ambitious, I have access to a 3D printer so if someone puts together a solid .stl I could even print it for him (and a copy for whoever puts it together).
So here are the specs he came up with, with surprisingly little input from myself:
- It's a BMW
- 42 wheels, and of course 42-wheel drive
- It is powered by 19 Porsche engines, each producing 459 horsepower. I think they will need to be water-cooled turbocharged boxer 6s. This was entirely his own idea, but I commended his choice of using boxer engines for a multi-engine setup since they will stack so well.
- The engines are all linked to a single transmission. He didn't specify, but I think viscous couplings for the inputs would probably be a good idea.
- Power output is subdivided to all those wheels via a series of limited-slip differentials
- There are seats and three steering wheels, and all three can drive the car at the same time.
- The trunk is full of toys and you can play in it

Little did four-year old Eli know that when he fantasized about his dream car to his uncle, that BMW would not only listen, but pen a vehicle just for him. The heart-warming tale began last week at auto enthusiast website Jalopnik, when a reader asked if design-savvy posters woulddraw up a dream car for his budding enthusiast nephew.

It couldn’t just be any race car—the Bavarian high-performance machine had to have 19 Porsche boxer engines, 42 wheels, three steering wheels being controlled simultaneously by three drivers, and most importantly, a trunk for toys.

Here's how he approached it. he divided the flat-six engines into three main banks: one of nine, forming the spine of the car, mounted low, to keep the center of gravity low and then two side pods of five engines each. A Y-shaped transmission unit would be mounted at the rear to combine all the engine power to send to all 42 wheels. cooling radiators are in the large ducted areas on either side of the car.

The 42 wheels are divided into four 40-wheel units, and two steering wheels up front. For, you know, handling. He think this car would likely demand at least two lanes or so on a road, so be advised. Luckily, the din of 19 flat-sixes should be enough to make everyone clear out.

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1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six also know as the “Ghost Car” or “Plexiglas”

When the car was first featured at General Motors’ “Highways and Horizons” pavilion, it was a massive hit. Most people wouldn’t have seen Plexiglas before, so a transparent material with that many curves was almost unheard of.

 

Here you could look through the body of the car to see all its internal workings exposed. For aesthetic purposes all structural metal was given a copper wash, while the hardware and even the dashboard were covered in chrome. All the rubber elements in the car were made in white, including the tires.

The final price for the car? In the days when a new Pontiac was just about $700, this beauty cost $25000 to build. When this car was auctioned by RM Auctions in 2011, it went for just a little more than its original price. The one-of-a-kind car sold for $308,000.The Pontiac “Ghost” is equipped with a 2.2 liter six-cylinder engine, developing 85 horsepower and connected to a three-speed manual transmission. The transparent car is fitted with independent front suspension, four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes and live rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs.

The car has was the result of a collaboration between General Motors and Rohm & Haas, who developed the ground-breaking material Plexiglas in 1933.The model has an L-head six-cylinder engine, coil spring independent front suspension, live rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes

The material went on to be used in military planes during World War II and then expanded in to signs, lighting, fixtures, trains and other cars.Rohm & Haas used drawings for the Pontiac four-door Touring Sedan to create an exact replica body out of the transparent acrylic.Seventy-two years of wear: The Plexiglas does have some chips and cracks but is mostly in good condition, according to auction notes.

It was completed with structural metal underneath, which was given a copper wash, and chrome-plated hardware.Rubber moldings were made in white, as were the car’s tires. The only recent mechanical work has been replacement of the fuel lines.Billed as a vision of the future, the car was made for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair in San Francisco, pictured here

Motorcycle by David Kay Engineering

A private British  super vehicle collector has the bike for the past 17 years, during which he has displayed it as a work of art in the drawing room of his opulence home. Finally, he has now taken the decision to put his Ferrari 900 under the hammer.

David Kay wrote to Enzo Ferrari’s son Piero, requesting to have permission to build a one-off motorbike sporting the famous Ferrari prancing horse logos, and in May 1990 Kay got the reply he wanted: the approval to place the Ferrari logo on your motorbike. It was finished in 1995.

The bike, a Ferrari 900, which took Kay approximately 75 weeks to complete, has a 900cc engine producing 105hp, and is capable of 0-60mph in less than 3 second with a top speed of 257kmph. It was built from scratch and features a scratch built 900cc, transverse, double overhead camshaft, 4 cylinder, 8 valve unit with magnesium and alloy casings, driven through a 5-speed gearbox.

The two double curvature megaphone exhausts are too beautiful to merely funnel exhaust gasses from engine to atmosphere. The noise of this bike is like a Messerschmitt chasing a Spitfire,said David Kay.

Bonhams auction takes place in Stafford on April 29. A spokesperson from Bonhams said: This bike is in immaculate condition. This work of art is one of many headline bikes we have on sale this year. I have never in all the time I’ve been working here seen such an unbelievable standard of bikes, we’ve never had this standard of auction before.

cost of the bike would be US$139,066 (sold for £85,500) April, 2012 Stafford, U.K.