1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Its just everywhere...on tv, on the radio, on social media, internet forums of all types, online news....even in real life people won't stop talking about it lol.

 

Says the guy talking about it online a few moments ago. lol

 

I acknowledged that

 

She’s thirsty

 

You been working on that since you posted about it at 3am? Get some sleep man

 

Excellent



Fuggin weirdo

 

The body panels ought to be cheap to make. No curves or multiple press station stamping.

 

No side mirrors, even. I'm guessing cameras in their place but that just seems dangerous

 

Is that a car in my camera or dirt

 

Or if the camera just plain stops working

 

Something about it reminds me of an air-cooled 1920 Franklin 9 series with the V-windshield.

 

A V windshield, lol that looks cool but I can't imagine that being good for visibility

 

I bet it has the "blind spot" from hell.

 

They needed it for aerodynamics. I think it had a top speed of 50 to 60 MPH.

 

How old are you if you remember that car?

 

Do you have an sPOD? If so, where’s it mounted and you have any pics?

 

Ok damn, I’ll comment ugly then.

 

That one is older than my parents.. I know some people who are into Frankin cars so I went along to a meet up in Cazenovia NY one summer.

They had air-cooled engines using a lot of aluminum and copper. The company went broke during the depression in the 1930s. The cars were made in Syracuse NY.

The craftsmen and metallurgists who knew a lot about making engines went to work for the Carrier Company in Syracuse NY after the car company went broke and helped to usher in refrigerated air-conditioning. I guess because the car company folded, Carrier got the skilled people and went on to become a huge HVAC company.

Here's a slide show with pictures of the cars.

http://s286.photobucket.com/user/RidgelineCS/slideshow/Car Club Stuff/Cazenovia NY Meet

 

There is a museum out here that has original carrier hvac stuff

 

Cool stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Corporation


Syracuse, New York campus

Willis Carrier moved his facilities from New Jersey to Syracuse, New York in the 1930s. I suspect he moved there as the Franklin Automobile Company went broke to get the skilled metallurgists that knew about air-cooling engines.