Avast Ye Lubbers, a new wind powered inspection car for the pizza

Arrgg! Ye Monkey Crew!

New for the pizza, a inspection car that doesn’t need coal or gasoline to get around, instead using a sail instead.

Its a Stomper drive, on a basswood frame with an HLW gondola body, the rest is basswood
dowels and whatever stuff I could find lying around, the nameplate is an old part from a long
dismantled AMT General kit, the belaying pins are small pop rivets, the pulley blocks are scratched from basswood and the sails are tissue paper stiffened with wh

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Until I saw the battery, I was going to ask “Who be doin’ all the huf ‘n puffin?”

Tom, wouldn’t be the first time it was said I was a “blow hard” LOL

Ever thought about building a motor home? This one is on Del Oro, you might need to shorten it up a bit.

A [tup] on both

Dave

those are great fun! I always enjoyed the prototype sail powered inspection car on the Ffestiniog in Wales.