Showing posts with label Steve Darnell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Darnell. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Electric Rod

Not sure what Steve Darnell will make of this story.
Steve Darnell is the one who isn't Richard Rawlings.
Richard Rawlings owns Gas Monkey Garage as featured in Fast'n'Loud while Steve Darnell owns Welder Up as featured in Sin City Motors (or, as it is known in America, Vegas Rat Rods)

And one thing Steve Darnell loves doing is sticking huge Cummins Diesel engines into Rat Rods.

But the story, from Autoguide today, tells of Cummins producing an all-powerful, all electric Semi.  (Note that in this case we are talking about a tractor unit not a suburban house or the start of an erection)

Here it is:
and here is another type of semi - a small one:
Very neatly erected in its own way.
 
But I digress.
 
The Cummins/Aeos truck is challenging Tesla who are working on an electric truck themselves.  Autoguide claim that Cummins have got there first since they put out this tweet yesterday at an unveiling:
Very impressive.
 
Does this mean that Steve will now have sparks rather than plumes of black smoke coming from his creations in the future?
 
It's already been done with a few examples coming up if you Google "Electric Rat Rod" but I reckon he will end up doing one too.

I'd put some money on it if I could just think of somewhere in America where it is legal to gamble.

Friday, 23 June 2017

Pick Up Lines

I've said it before.

On more than one occasion.

I DON'T GET THE POINT OF SPY-SHOTS!

Today we have this one:
It's from this Autocar story about the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado.  You can't tell anything about the car/pick-up thingy from that picture - least of all the big news that IT IS A DIESEL!
 
Actually that is quite big news for America because, apart from Sin City Motors' Steve Darnell, nobody in America likes Diesels.
 
And what's with the 2019 model year? - it's still 2017 for goodness sake!
 
And how are you supposed to tell from that picture that it's a Diesel anyway?
Ah - apparently this bloke with the Michigan State T-shirt and the blurry face is using a Diesel pump.
 
Anyway, I have a scoop here!  This is an exclusive picture of the 2020 Ford Fiesta under testing at the Nürburgring