Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.auto.tech Subject: Re: Unusual car spotted in Texas (diamond wheel layout) Message-ID: <512@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:21:54 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.512 Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:21:54 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 05:48:56 EST References: <147@bu-cs.UUCP> <996@unmvax.UUCP> <248@hadron.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 31 Xref: linus net.auto:8462 net.auto.tech:779 In article <248@hadron.UUCP> klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) writes: > > That was a PROBE, and it comes in Kowasaki and Honda engine > flavors. Saw 2 at the DC car show a few weeks ago. My son > snarfed some material on it. Will post when I find it. > > Kurt Sorry for not responding sooner, but I was thrown off by the `diamond-wheel' subject line. So, I just now re-read the original article. You said it looks like a BD-5 aircraft? Well, I'm afraid I don't know what a BD-5 looks like, but by an incredible coincidence (?) BD manufactured such a car (basically a seated motorcycle with outriggers) some three or four years ago. I know; there were TWO of them pottering around DC for some time. I got a close-up look at one of them way back when, as it was parked in front of the Smithsonian `Castle'. But you said it has a flip-up cockpit bubble? Hmmm...the BD ground vehicle's cockpit bubble slid forwards... Around that time, there was a review of it done in Popular Science...I'll try to find the issue date. -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "They were the elite, the vanguard of progress. They would take mankind to the heights...and perhaps beyond." -Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End