You learn something new... - Cars you didn't know existed, until now!

[Spec M]

Hey I just did some research on it.

Rediscovery and final fate

In the late 1940s, an expedition team found the vehicle and discovered it needed only air in the tires and some servicing to make it operational. In 1958, an international expedition uncovered the snow cruiser using a bulldozer. It was completely covered by several feet of snow but a long bamboo pole marked its position. They were able to dig down to the location of the bottom of the wheels and accurately measure the amount of snowfall since it was abandoned. Inside, the vehicle was exactly as the crew had left it, with papers, magazines, and cigarettes scattered all around. Later expeditions reported no trace of the vehicle. Although there was some unsubstantiated speculation that the (traction-less) Snow Cruiser was taken by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the vehicle most likely is either at the bottom of the Southern Ocean or buried deep under snow and ice. Antarctic ice is in constant motion and the ice shelf is constantly moving out to sea. In the mid-1960s, a large chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off and drifted away; the break occurred right through Little America. It is unknown on which side of the ice shelf the Snow Cruiser was located.

Very interesting Buick, thanks for sharing .

Im suprised I didnt know this thing existed. It really is like something out of a Sci-Fi novel.

PS: They could make a novel or movie about this thing alone. The story is really intriguing.

 

[buickgnx88]

Yah it would be interesting if the Commies did indeed take it, but I'm sure someone would have discovered it by now! Unless....perhaps it's in that giant warehouse that is shown at the end of Raiders of the lost Ark!

Anyways no prob, it's been something I've been into for a while now. I even built a LEGO model of it (though I don't have any pictures of it at the moment).

Ironically like I posted above, I first read about it in a novel (though it was adventure, but that's beside the point ).

 

[Prosthetic]

I will go swim down there and bring it up with my bare arms!! Then bring it back to California and be king of the road!!!

Wait how much does it weigh? I may have to work out a little.

 

[buickgnx88]

At least 35 tons

Here's some video clips of it in action:
Clicky

 

[Spec M]

I looked at some vids on youtube and they look kinda creepy because of ancient camera footage.

 

[buickgnx88]

Haha yah that darn footage!

 

[ferrari_chris]

I must be missing something, but why does it have a plane on the roof?

Cool vehicle though - Thunderbirds are go!

 

[buickgnx88]

Well the plan was for it to carry a plane on the back while they were cruising around the Arctic tundra so they could go back to civilization for supplies or perhaps to escape if they had complications.

 

[Keef]

How exactly would the plane take off? It doesn't look like there's a catapult system up there anywhere. Jeez, somebody really didn't think this vehicle through at all. I especially love the spare tires. I bet Mr. Poulter and Mr. Wade would have done just fine to roll out that thousand-pound, twenty foot tall tire out and mount it right up...

 

[buickgnx88]

Haha yah don't know how they would mount the spares! As far as the plane, I'm sure they pulled it off the back of the vehicle (on ramps, since there was a winch to pull it back up) and it had skis instead of wheels so it could take off on the ice/snow.

 

[Rykon Zero]

They could probably use the wheel system and raise the one wheel.

 

[buickgnx88]

For jacking it up, of course. But if you see how large those wheels actually are, it would be very fun for 2 guys to get the spare out and jockey it into place.

 

[superberkut]

Cosworth: Amazing! The first truly good-looking 4WD car- I stand corrected. But still very sharp.

Snow Cruiser: Only 75hp? To total 300hp? Didn't the novel version have more than that?

 

[buickgnx88]

Well it's a diesel-electric combo, 2 150hp diesel inline-6 engines plus 4 75hp electric motors to equal 600hp total. With the electric motors, the diesel engines could be smaller so there would be more room for the crew.

As far as the novel, I don't have it with me so I forget what it said in there.

 

[superberkut]

I guess I misread it.

 

[buickgnx88]

Tis all good.

 

[hemisport15]

Jaguar XF10 concept
http://www.allcarwallpapers.com/jaguar/jaguar-xf-10-by-fuore-design-(2003)/9669/800x600/
Apparently, it is a 650 horsepower, 2 seat coupe that can go 0-60 in 3.8 seconds.
Here is the interior
http://www.allcarwallpapers.com/jaguar/jaguar-xf-10-by-fuore-design-(2003)/9661/800x600/

 

[buickgnx88]

Here you go:

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

One thing to say to that car,

 

[Rykon Zero]

Not a fan of the BMW meets Bugatti Grille.

 

[buickgnx88]

Awww it's smiling!

 

[superberkut]

Not bad. Clean up that grille and you have a winner.

The Edsel incarnated?

 

[buickgnx88]

2005 Avanti Studebaker

 

[mustangGT90210]

2005 Avanti Studebaker

Somebody messed up everything in that.

It needs like, 34" tires, then at least they will be to scale

 

[buickgnx88]

I believe they got sued by GM, since it looks way too much like the H2.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I believe they got sued by GM, since it looks way too much like the H2.

Haaa....I thought it was an H2 kit truck...

 

[buickgnx88]

Oh haha it's all good, no it's just a vehicle made by Avanti based on the F-Series Superduty.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Oh haha it's all good, no it's just a vehicle made by Avanti based on the F-Series Superduty.

Well they wasted a damn good chassis then!

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I believe they got sued by GM, since it looks way too much like the H2.

Why, because they both look like rectangles with wheels?

 

[mustangGT90210]

Why, because they both look like rectangles with wheels?

BUT, the H2 was the first rectangle, therefore making it now illegal to put another rectangle on wheels, AKA that poor thing up there