« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2014, 10:09:37 am »
Was there not a car made from the remains of a Walrus @Shagbat@ hull. Seem to recall Root showing a picture of it to me.
The speedsters of the various land speed records world are often based on fuel drop tanks. There is a whole thread here. Spinning back to the Aircraft Engineers who inspired some of our favourite cars by not being closed minded Auto Engineers copying a code, but rather innovating and probing how far you can take technology in car production from a superior art of design.
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