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Insanely great Spider Mobile: a car with legs
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Re: Insanely great Spider Mobile: a car with legs -
05-03-2007
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That's funny, as I looked at the thing and my first thought was that it would be hopeless on anything other than perfectly flat ground as it doesn't have independent "legs". |
ground because half of the legs were sliding and something would have bent
if one or 2 legs got caught.
Michael
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"Michael C" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:4639751d$0$5745$afc38c87 (AT) news (DOT) optusnet.com.au... Looks like it still needs some refining :-) I think the guy's already wasted enough time on it. Fucked if I know why people dedicate thousands of hours & dollars into things that have the entertainment value of a kid's wind up toy  |
deem a waste of time.
Sometimes the creation is the attraction, not functionality of the end
result.
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See the video of this amazing car athttp://Muvy.org |
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Hard to explain, but I too have put many hours into projects that to others deem a waste of time. Sometimes the creation is the attraction, not functionality of the end result. |
I spent 5 years (and many thousands of dollars) restoring my WWII Willys
jeep so it was a "down to the last nut & bolt" perfect restoration, but it
was a total pig to drive when it was finished and the novelty of driving it
wore off in around ten minutes.
The fun, for me at least, was the journey of the restoration. Not the
completed project.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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I know that feeling. I spent 5 years (and many thousands of dollars) restoring my WWII Willys jeep so it was a "down to the last nut & bolt" perfect restoration, but it was a total pig to drive when it was finished and the novelty of driving it wore off in around ten minutes. The fun, for me at least, was the journey of the restoration. Not the completed project. |
Michael
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But you've at least got something that is resaleable. |
It now resides in a military museum in Kerang.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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"Michael C" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:463c2944$0$11378$afc38c87 (AT) news (DOT) optusnet.com.au... But you've at least got something that is resaleable. Did have. It now resides in a military museum in Kerang. -- Regards, Noddy. Was it bought or did you donate it? |
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Was it bought or did you donate it? |
I wasn't planning on selling it, but happened to meet the curator by chance.
He made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and as I hadn't driven it for a while
I decided to let it go up there for other people to appreciate rather than
spend it's life sitting in the corner of my garage.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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