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An Easy One?
 

I think that this is an easy one. What is this, or what is it part of? You don't need to be too specific.

Looks like bonnet and lid hydraulics on a show car.

Heh, he said hydraulics.

1955 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwings.

A true classic.

Okay, so it was only the lid hydraulics. What do I win?

Well, technically, they are the doors.
But I'll split it with you!

I'm giving Elspode 2 out of 5, and beauregaardhooligan 5/5.

I took these pictures when I was in Stuttgart last month. Here are two bigger views.

There was also a bare frame on display, and an explanation that the door design was due to the frame rail location. I don't know why the style was discontinued.

It's a very attractive car, and I'd love to have one.

I can't help wondering though, what it was like to climb in and out of one. You might be able to stretch your foot across that door frame and place it onto the floor and then slide in and sit down all in one motion to get into the car. Then pick up your outside foot and lift it up, over and in. Getting out has got to be a major pain. You could crawl out and exit hands first onto the ground. Or stand up on the seat, all hunched over so you don't hit the door above your head and hop out, or try to do the entrance move in reverse. I don't see any handles to pull yourself up as you try to get out. Basically, it looks like a real challenge to enter and exit this car. It's that very high and wide threshold, and the lack of head room space above the door that would make it such a challenge.

To be fair, I've never tried it, and am only guessing based on the pictures. Maybe it's really easy.

glatt - now I feel stupid for not trying that when I had the chance. I was standing right there and could have been in and out before the guards could do anything.

The doors seem like they'd be good for tight parking spaces. I don't think they'd need as much side clearance as regular doors.

Edit: This is from Wikipedia:
The 300SL was best known for both its distinctive gullwing or butterfly wing doors and for being the first-ever gasoline-powered car equipped with fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber. The gullwing version was available from March 1955 to 1957. In Mercedes-Benz fashion, the "300" referred to the engine's cylinder displacement, in this case, three liters. The "SL", as applied to a roadster, stood for "Sport Leicht" or "Sport Light."
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The gullwing doors, hinged at the roof and so named because the open doors resembled a bird's outstretched wings, were implemented as such to accommodate for the car's tubular chassis, designed by DBAG's chief developing engineer, Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Part of the chassis passed through what would be the lower half of a standard door.

This tubular chassis was a necessity, as the original car was designed solely for racing and needed to be as light as possible due to the rather underpowered original, carbureted, engine, while still providing a high level of strength. This required the driver and any passengers to do some gymnastics to get in or out of the car, usually by sitting on and sliding across the wide door sill. A steering wheel with a tilt-away column made the process considerably easier.

Just hope to hell you don't end upside down, trapped in a burning wreck.

PIA at drive-thru's too...

That's very perceptive of you. I can't tell if the windows open or not. It looks like they might be hinged.

I recognized it because my brother's MotherInLaw had one.
A very unique car. Here's a link to the site I got the pic from.

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~rschild/mbgc.html

Not my turn but , Whats this ????
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/...0f854038_o.jpg

A kite string holder

(for a batman kite)

Nope

My guesses run out after drawer pull and bow-tie for an electronic penguin.

nope

See, I knew that. But I always liked Liar's Club.

nope its not one of them eather

a butt plug?

Fishing weight?

I'm guessing is has something to do with boats and lines. Fishing weight sounds good. Or some sort of hardware used in rope rigging. Not terribly precise there huh?

One of those Klingon double-bladed weapons? A backpack for a robot?

Actually, I agree with the fishing weight. The line goes through the two slits, which you squeeze shut to hold it in place.

Or its a metal bone

Zip. I have not a clue, but while we're waiting, I'll pitch this in.
Bruce sent me something about old cars and such, is what brought this to mind.

Nope ,
Nope ,
Nope ,
Nope , but good guesses all .
Now how long should this go befor it reveal what it is ??

One final guess from me, and then I give up.

You are a scales guy, right?

I'm going to guess that it's some sort of standardized weight for calibrating scales. Only thing is it looks really small for doing truck scales. But that's still my guess.

The notches, and the curvature, seem to indicate some kind of flexible, connective function. It reminds me, somehow, of a u-joint.

Ok , the thingee is a thingee for your Ipod head phones to keep the cords un tangled ,
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1005/...af1d037091.jpg

I initionaly thaough this was the view to use ,
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1006/...54f9d486c8.jpg

then this view ,
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/...8dcd3322_o.jpg

but then I thought that a safer for work view was in order


NEXT

So we were all on the right track with the wrapping lines around it approach.

Good one, zippyt.

thank ye sir

Buster, that looks like the grille of a piece of heavy equipment, like a dozer or something?

nope, but I'll not give you, Bruce any more clues. Because you know

Is it part of the windshield of a Florida school bus?

cover over a small engine with a pull cord... chainsaw?

The honeycomb-like part looks like an air-filter cover from a lawn mower, and old gaskets.

Ok. If you had a car, date, friends and a few bucks back in the late 50s, 60s or perhaps the 70s you might, or should have used one of these.

Is it a speaker for ordering food at a drive in?

If not that, it must be the speaker you put inside your window when watching the movie.

Or a drive-in movie speaker. To order movie watching to get in your ear.

Huh?

Let me try that language out:

"To buy ice cream eating to see cherry on top."

Hi, my name is glatt, and I'm a late editor.

You said it was a drive-in speaker "to order food" so I said, maybe it is to "order" something else: the movie. Or the watching of the movie. Well, not the actual watching of the movie, but to "order" a certain part of it. To get in your ear. To order movie watching to get in your ear. Shut up.

:D

Drive-in move speaker. In ya ear.

What is this?
 

Yes, sky; yes, clouds. You can do better.

Less what is this...
 

and more like wth? plus where's waldo?

HLJ asked if I could see myself in the tuba.

Yep. Can you?

Someone's parachute failing to open?

Are you the one in the red shirt?

Wind dummies dropped from a plane before a jump.

Winnnnnnnnah!

nope.


Which narrows it down A LOT!

I have jumped after them like this:

http://www.blackfive.net/photos/unca...n7512v032d.jpg

I love you man, but no fucking way.

Hell I'd do it if'n you held my Beer !!!

better plan: toss the beer out first!

and here are the jumps!

how many parachutists do you see?