SNCASE SE. 100 fighter - photo

[ranald]

When it comes to engineering, the French imitate no one, and no one imitates the French.

Sounds like SAAB , the only manufacturer who designed the body around the engineering and not vice versa. They nearly went broke as vehicles were so good they hardly sold spares then GM bought em out. End of story.

[neilbourjaily]

Sounds like SAAB , the only manufacturer who designed the body around the engineering and not vice versa. They nearly went broke as vehicles were so good they hardly sold spares then GM bought em out. End of story.

SAAB. After unloading his Hillman (the one with the flags that would pop from the door post to signal left or right turns), my father started driving SAABs, specifically the 96. 1 quart of oil into the gas tank with every tank of gas, cleaned extra sparkplugs in the glove box to replace the one(s) that fouled, 4-on-the-column, and seatbelts. One of his proudest days was acquiring a brand new GT 850, oil-injected meant no more quart per tank. To move it out one had to rev the engine (if you let off the gas, it'd go Rrring-ding-ding-ding...down to idle- a riot to hear!) and then it'd burn rubber. Of course, when a 16 year old kid is allowed to drive it and wants to show off to his friends that a SAAB is fast (really) and lets off the clutch to abruptly, the rubber joints between the axle and the wheels don't respond well having over 70k miles at the time. That lead, eventually, to extracting the engine and transaxle to get to the joints and replace them. I don't recall how long it took to get the parts and do the job, which took place over a weekend. Another time, earlier, that same kid had gone to the one of the locks on the C&O canal to hangout with buddies and left the radio going. Dead battery. Free-wheeling. Dang. Recall! On the floorboard high and right from the gas pedal was a handle, which when pulled, disengaged the freewheeling, that is it engaged the wheels to the transaxle. Relief. Pop drove that car for years and did all his own work on it.
My poor old-man, to have had a kid like me.

[ranald]

SAAB. After unloading his Hillman (the one with the flags that would pop from the door post to signal left or right turns), my father started driving SAABs, specifically the 96. 1 quart of oil into the gas tank with every tank of gas, cleaned extra sparkplugs in the glove box to replace the one(s) that fouled, 4-on-the-column, and seatbelts. One of his proudest days was acquiring a brand new GT 850, oil-injected meant no more quart per tank. To move it out one had to rev the engine (if you let off the gas, it'd go Rrring-ding-ding-ding...down to idle- a riot to hear!) and then it'd burn rubber. Of course, when a 16 year old kid is allowed to drive it and wants to show off to his friends that a SAAB is fast (really) and lets off the clutch to abruptly, the rubber joints between the axle and the wheels don't respond well having over 70k miles at the time. That lead, eventually, to extracting the engine and transaxle to get to the joints and replace them. I don't recall how long it took to get the parts and do the job, which took place over a weekend. Another time, earlier, that same kid had gone to the one of the locks on the C&O canal to hangout with buddies and left the radio going. Dead battery. Free-wheeling. Dang. Recall! On the floorboard high and right from the gas pedal was a handle, which when pulled, disengaged the freewheeling, that is it engaged the wheels to the transaxle. Relief. Pop drove that car for years and did all his own work on it.
My poor old-man, to have had a kid like me.

Very entertaining. How did our parents cope? Karma bit me on the buttocks.LOL.

[Frank S]

I have several 10 ft diameter reels made out of steel tubing. A friend of mine wants to convert my large A frame into the structure for a trebuchet and launch microwaves into the next county So I told him that I have a Schramm pneumatic tractor with a built in 300 CFM air compressor why not take that and a 500 gallon propane tank for compressed air storage a 10 inch butterfly valve and a 40 ft long stick of 8" pipe and make an air cannon. we could turn the reels into Panjandrums but use compressed air and water as the propulsion launch the microwaves at the Panjandrums from the trebuchet and try to shoot them out of the air with pumpkins from the air cannon I have a field large enough to do this in and the proceeds from the ticket sales might eventually pay for my concrete slab for my shop.
the bad thing about building all of those pieces of junk is it would diminish my supply of useable materials to nothing But I think it could be fun.
PS; yes my mind is actually that twisted