Tom HarringtonSnow bug in Leadville Colorado today
Den of Earth@atomicbird
If it's doing that on a stock engine
that's quite the accomplishment.
And if someone managed to shoehorn a Bobcat diesel in there with all the hydraulics, that's a whole 'nother level of impressive.
@DenOfEarth It’s lifted enough that I suspect they mounted a Beetle body on something like a bobcat
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@atomicbird @DenOfEarth A bobcat is a skid-steer so wouldn't have separate front tracks like this. However in the shadows under the real wheel well you can see they definitely spliced the whole drivetrain/tracks from something in there, you can see the exhaust comes from somewhere forward and the stock bug engine is not there at all.
@acsawdey @atomicbird
No reason a Bobcat couldn't have been used to power the rear tracks and leave the front ones bolted to the steering.
And since the Bobcat drive is hydraulic, you could put the engine anywhere, front, back, roof rack, trailer, and just run hydraulic lines to the driven axle.
Or any small excavator, Kubota, Hitachi,
you name it.
@DenOfEarth @atomicbird OK I found it, it is a Mattracks EZ series conversion meant for an ATV or UTV .. GVW of 2500 lbs is probably plenty to put a bug on it. It might just be a bug shell on top of a UTV chassis. The coil-over struts visible in the wheel wells suggest that.
@acsawdey @DenOfEarth thanks, I thought it was something along those lines but didn’t know exactly what.
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CassandrichRE: https://mastodon.social/@atomicbird/116122185686720075
@atomicbird If Michael Bay hadn't changed Bumblebee to a Chevy.
aburka 🫣@atomicbird this is the cybertruck we deserved
Ada (Villain arc) 🏳️⚧️@aburka @atomicbird only if it's getting elon money and it's actually safe. Speaking of which I had a weird thought as I was typing this.
Elon: bitch buggy
Unsafe: jank mobile
Both: jacky jankster
None: cybertruck
Elon: bitch buggy
Unsafe: jank mobile
Both: jacky jankster
None: cybertruck
Michael B. Johnson@atomicbird Tracks. (both meanings)
Allan@atomicbird
It appeared in the version of The Shining that we didn't deserve.
It appeared in the version of The Shining that we didn't deserve.
kolya@atomicbird @schamspeare
In the 1960s Australians used regular VW Beetles in Antarctica. Might work for Colorado too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqr7t7nBIVA
In the 1960s Australians used regular VW Beetles in Antarctica. Might work for Colorado too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqr7t7nBIVA
The Crazy VW Beetles That Conquered Antarctica
Michael Vilain@atomicbird I had to explain this to our Dutch web developer. The Dutch nickname for the VW in the Netherlands is "Ugly Duckling".
Laurens@mvilain @atomicbird No, it's not, it's 'VW Kever' (pronounced Vay Way Kay-ver') which translates to VW Bug in English and VW Käfer (pronounced 'Vow Way Kay-fur') in German.
The 'Ugly Duck' or 'Lelijke Eend' ('Lay-like-ah Aynd') is the nickname for the Citroën 2CV. Both the Bug and the 2CV were very popular cars in the Netherlands. There are quite a few roadworthy examples of both still driving around in the classic car scene.
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉@ElBeeToots @mvilain @atomicbird
Just as the vw kever translates to VW beetle ... 😉
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@atomicbird that tracks.
Mojarrison LeRat 🐀 ⁂@atomicbird this must be on @weirdonwheels too XD
Weird on Wheels@Mojarrison @atomicbird amazing, thanks for the ping
Jan Lehnardt 
@atomicbird holy shit 😍
Anthony DavidThis your car ? 😉 @ThisIsTrue
bimmer@atomicbird this thing fucks
Michael Dexter@atomicbird Nice feature.
vxo@atomicbird this is SO intriguing
De_Minimis
France Augier (fr|en) 🇵🇸🇺🇦☭🏴@atomicbird Oh that's some high-end upcycling artistry there 