Brass Van – Probably the World’s Heaviest Art Car

The Brass Van is a unique art car completely covered with various brass items. Also known as the “California Fantasy Van”, this artwork on four wheels took 22 years to complete.

Hunter Mann is the present owner of the Brass Van, but it was actually his late godfather, Ernie Steingold, who crated it. A vacuum-cleaner repairman, Steingold first started adding brass to his 1975 GMC van, in the early 1980s and continued doing so for the next 20 years or so. It all started one day, when he decided to attach three brass elephants to the hood, as ornaments. Then he got it into his head to cover the vehicle with brass coins, and he did just that – around $15,000 worth of coins, at the time he finished the job. From there on in, he just kept adding brass.

Mann, the current owner of the Brass van, says there are around 5,000 pieces of brass presently attached to his vehicle, weighing about 10,000 pounds. In fact, this car is so heavy, its tires have to be changed every 4,000 miles, and I don’t even want to think about the mileage…

As you would expect, Hunter Mann gets pulled over by police, about once every five days. Most of the officers just want to ask him about his Brass van and take photos with it. Even though he gets asked the same questions every time, Mann never gets tired of answering them.

When it’s not on tour, the Brass Van can be found at ArtCar World, a museum for art cars, in Douglas, Arizona. Just in case you were wondering about how much such a unique vehicle costs, the Brass van was appraised at $350,000.

Concept Electric Nissan Torii

 Visualizing the family car of the future, the Italian designer Jorge Andres Pinilla Fonseca, came up with a concept he called the Nissan Torii. This car will be replaced by the traditional transmission cables, freeing space inside. Inspired by a Japanese metaphor for "the gates of the temple, which purify the human soul, the designer is equipped with" Torii spherical wheels. A filters under the lights will not only pollute, but also clean the air. In addition the concept presupposes the availability of GPS and a lithium-ion batteries. Unfortunately, it expects to release these wonderful cars can be no earlier than 2030.

Snake Road - a concept motorcycle in the style of Star Wars

 In developing this concept designer Delussu Bruno was inspired by the works of German, Daniel Simon, who invented, in particular, flying motorcycles from Star Wars. " Conceived like their shapes Hidden cobra and was named Snake Road. Creator saw his car in the body, made of lightweight and durable fiberglass. Racer, in my opinion, should be while driving pose an athlete, cyclist.

SpyNet Mission a set of young spy

 The rapid development of portable electronics, along with the fashion for films like "Children of spyware" has created the appearance of a variety of toys on this topic. In Soviet times there were whole sets, which used to be called the "Young Chemist", "the young biologist," and so on. They are allowed to put a limited amount of some experiments and at the same time acquiring knowledge and skills to play. Wristwatch with a pseudo-intriguing title SpyNet Mission can give the illusion of playing a spy (or spy?)
Hours are 60 dollars and can lead photo-video shooting and audio recording of what is happening. Exact specifications are hidden, it is known that the diagonal of the screen 1.4 inches, and the capacity of internal memory enough to store 20 minutes of video, 4 hours of sound recordings, or 2000 images. By the way, the camera has automatic shooting mode at specified intervals - from 5 seconds to 10 minutes. Very handy for covert surveillance in the automatic mode, for example, the actions of a potential enemy, entrenched living in the neighboring yard.
In addition to the hours you can get another $ 30 plug-in video camera on a flexible wire and conduct covert shooting literally around the corner.

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An exact replica of Batman's bike

On the creation of this, he has been spent 1000 hours, turned out an exact copy of a 650 cc engine,
cost 100 thousand dollars. This bike is for the true fan of Batman.

Moto-concept from Michael Smolyanova

The car from the movie "Back to the Future"

Remember this world wheelbarrow?? I think that no such people have not seen her!
Gary Weaver decided to make an exact copy of the car and he obtained.
Spending lots of time and 16 thousand dollars he made an absolute replica of the car from "Back to the Future".

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