Weird on Wheels
Today's feature is designer Luigi Colani who came up with some pretty wild trucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Colani
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Feb 20 at 1:59amWeb
Show threadKanaMaunaFeb 20

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This is the future they took from us.

Show threadtjhowseFeb 20
@weirdonwheels Jeez think of the slurs other truckers were obliged to invent to ridicule the person driving these things.
Show threadNosaj  Feb 20

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Putting the "train" in road train. 🤣

Show threadKathmanduFeb 20

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Those look like Transformers.

Show threadLetTheSkyRainPotatoesFeb 20
@weirdonwheels Optimus Prime’s evil twin who can also transform into a battery-powered wine opener you can buy from Hammacher Schlemmer.
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Feb 20
@weirdonwheels But are they electric?
Show thread"Mediocre Bunny" EvelynFeb 20
@weirdonwheels
I have never particularly wanted to be a truck driver until right this moment.
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Feb 20
@weirdonwheels They look like Alien critters out of a Pixar movie.
Show threadTubemeisterFeb 20
@weirdonwheels There’s a guy who watched The Highwayman (1987) when he was a kid.
Show threadTubemeisterFeb 20

@weirdonwheels Oh for anyone wondering, yes that is supposed to be a functional Gazelle helicopter in there, because ofcourse it is, and nevermind that the truck does a u turn at some point without snapping the tailrotor off.

Ahh mid 80s American tv. Guuunz, truuucks, leather, toxic masculinity, dodgy plots and gratuitous injuns. Great stuff when you’re 12 and can’t see the plot holes big enough to turn that truck around in.

Show threadTubemeisterFeb 20
@weirdonwheels or rather, the highway man possibly watched him. He and those trucks seem to be a bit older than I assumed.
Show threadNellieFeb 20
@weirdonwheels It's Handsome Squidward in truck form 😱
Show threadWooShellFeb 20
@weirdonwheels He also came up with other things, like a desktop PC case that reboots when you push the keyboard too far forward.. (it had the reset and power buttons directly above the groove where the keyboard was supposed to rest against).
Show threadAxel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenomFeb 20

@weirdonwheels: I'm quite sure, I saw the truck from the second picture back then at the place when the photograph was made: That was in Karlsruhe in its fair area on Festplatz between Konzerthaus and Nancy-Halle (you can ready "N___Y HALLE" in the picture) at the same time when LinuxTag took place in Karlsruhe in Juli 2003. The exact point where the truck was standing is here in front of this row of trees: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/49.002477/8.400480

What a flashback. 😊

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Show threadWeird on WheelsFeb 20
@xtaran amazing!
Show threadder eazyFeb 20
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Show threadmxFeb 20
@weirdonwheels If Yeezys were a truck