Saturday, May 10, 2025


 

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  1. Had to look that up. "Aero Cabana ", roof top/pop-up camper. Pretty cool.

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    1. Yeah, but with that NACA section, enough lift to be a bad airplane...

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  2. Extra trunk space, auxiliary fuel tank, tanning bed, juvenile jail after one too many 'Are we there yet?"s, and reason the car almost flew right before that big crash, all in one.

    I'm guessing that engineer's next piece of work was the Edsel.

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    1. That is a 1958 Edsel...

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    2. And being greenlighted by "genius" Ford president Robert McNamara, he went on to give us the F-111 Thunderjug so dreadfully awful the Navy refused to buy it, the adoption of the M-16 which worked out so well until they fixed it twenty years later, and the Draft Of The Certified 80-IQ Retards for Vietnam.

      "By their fruit shall ye know them..."

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  3. I was manufactured and produced in 58.

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  4. If it increases gas mileage it will be mandated, with speed restrictions.

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  5. for a photo of it opened up, see https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/12/1st-time-ive-seen-this-roof-mounted.html

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  6. Ground based AWACS.

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