FlatMobile – Worlds Lowest Car
There’s a sort of car construction limbo dance to see who can build the world’s least tall street legal car. Briton Perry Watkins is now the current holder (it’s an unofficial title but I might be wrong) with an amazingly 19″ tall car – the Flatmobile.
The picture is a grab of a Youtube video, one of many showing Perry driving the car or setting on fire (accidentally) the afterburner that is fitted at the back. It’s modelled and styled on the BatMobile and in a former life was a 1963 Hillman Imp. Adding the afterburner gave an extra 150 lbs of thrust (noisy!) and by Perry’s reckoning, another 50 mph. However with a road clearance of 1″, it does not do speed bumps or dead animals very well.
It’s an amazing piece of kit and the videos show it off very well, including the one where the afterburner caught fire. My guess is a leak- afterburners spray fuel directly into the output stage of a jet turbine, lots of thrust and noise but not good for the fuel consumption!
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008 under automobile, technology.
Tags: afterburner, car, engine, height, record
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