jinxy

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

y7turbo

what size boiler? 597 pipefitter here, just wondering.

widebody93

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

Eville140

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.

#1NISMO

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 ----

Smith-02

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

crxmatt2

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

crxmatt2

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

crxmatt2

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 ****** torn out and put back in 3 times.

joebowlr21

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