Is it a tornado chaser?

basjoos · #1 02-19-2010, 12:12 PM

I had a new one. Someone asked me if my car was used for pursuing tornadoes. He thought all of the side/wheel skirts and sheet metal extensions on my vehicle was armor plating like that seen on some the tornado chasing trucks used in the plains states. So, depending on the spectator, my car could be either a hybrid, EV, amphibian, and now, tornado pursuit car.

PaleMelanesian · #2 02-19-2010, 01:11 PM

Haha! that's great! It just shows you what's hot on the TV these days.

I'm surprised nobody asked if it was a crab/lobster fishing vehicle, or a few years ago, a real estate flipping vehicle.

ksstathead · #3 02-19-2010, 02:38 PM

You would win the FE challenge among tornado chasing vehicles. In part because you could do airborne FAS much further than the others when actually in a tornado.

drimportracing · #4 02-19-2010, 03:28 PM

That's great. You should tell them that they should have seen it before you drove it through the center of that last tornado. A few dents from flying cows but they and the aerocivic were otherwise unhurt.

- Dale

Taliesin · #5 02-22-2010, 08:37 PM

Hmm.....

Thinking about it, it would be good for that. The biggest problem they have is with wind, and that doesn't affect you as much.

How is the tornado going to move you around when the air can't get a good hold of you?

The other stuff flying around you could cause a lot of problems though.

xcel · #6 02-22-2010, 09:43 PM

Hi Mike:

___It has to be so interesting to hear the questions at a stop light or gas station in a new town while you are sitting in the Aeorcivic

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Taliesin · #7 02-22-2010, 09:50 PM

It's interesting that a friend of mine who is definately NOT a hypermiler has even heard of the aerocivic.

He is a big fan of Honda for racing.

He has done a little modifying of one of his 3 CRXs for FE though.

One for FE (though he doesn't drive for it), one for racing, and the other is being built for his wife to race.