This pulled up to our jobsite Friday.
 

Semi truck from Long Beach, CA carrying our huge ass boiler we had to put in a hopsital here in Indiana.. and at the front of the trailer was this.


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Very 1st Ford Solar Car prototype

Est. price 1.5 mil. The pod belonged to the University of Michigan solar team, he was transporting the car and pod back to the University of Michigan. I bet he makes bookoo bucks.

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:1

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Where in Indiana?

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Paoli, bout 45mins north of Louisville

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Truckers make pretty good money. My family owns an insurance agency for truck insurance... by law, trucks have to carry $1M liability insurance.

The cargo insurance that guy has to cover that solar car is probably around $25,000 per year.

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Yeah, it was odd seeing a business looking guy comng out of a big rig. Normally you see bearded dudes w/ chained wallets.

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You live in that area? go to any of the tracks around there?
I'm close to Evansville, IN

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i always thought you were in canada??

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Nah I havent been to any tracks around here.. Not too sure if I know of any. lol

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+1

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I doubt that's a ford solar car prototype. Looks more like an engineering project ford is sponsoring for some sort of race.


http://www.engin.umich.edu/solarcar/pics.html

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what size boiler? 597 pipefitter here, just wondering.

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Paoli isnt too far from me, you going to the slopes this year, could have a HMT slope gathering, I'm in Seymour

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I can probably make it to Clay city a couple times this coming year. If you guys want to hit the track give me a yell.

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yea i doubt it was a ford prototype too, my highschool used to have a solar car team, we were sponsered by chevy and actually did pretty good in our geo metro. it had a motor out of a NYC subway in it and weighed 3500 lbs with all the batteries. We placed 2nd overall in the 2005 tour de sol, the national government sponsored alternative fuel race. Our highschool beat out every university and companies like lockheed martin and boeing, we were a pretty big deal for like a year then a flood killed our car and all our ----

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theres a hydrogen powered ford 300 inside of a focus hatch sitting inside of there

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Don't know specs but the fucker was huge. 8000 lbs

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Yeah they started blowing snow last week. I'll prob go up there a few times this year.. Expensive as ---- though

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True story. But can't say that I didn't try. I actually had the motor running in the car so it was a lesson learned. i had the fucker torn out and put back in 3 times.

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oh so u failed not once....but 3 times.....ok just wanted to calrify O0