BUILDING A CAR

BUILDING A CARBUILDING A CARAmateur designers often begin construction of the car, relying only on intuition, without any calculations. Most often in such cases the performance of the machine be not the such of any wanted the Creator, and the individual components break or wear out quickly.

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ASTON MARTIN DB4

ASTON MARTIN DB4The first car with this name was established in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamperbol — owners of the workshop in the London district of Kensington. A number of cars of sports type, in 1924, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and 5,000 pounds was purchased by the engineer V. Renwick. Creating a good 1.5-liter engine with overhead camshaft, new head of the firm and its companion A. Bertelli made him the main for ASTON MARTIN until 1936.

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YOU MECHANIC

YOU, MECHANICSIDE — DUMP TRUCK. To deliver the current grain from working in the field combine to drive if the feed to the farm building materials to the rising walls of the new building is everywhere in the village the required on-Board the vehicle. Such popularity is due to universality of his body fit for any cargo. One bad — unloading process, requiring considerable manual labor. Whether it is a truck! In a matter of seconds this “scoop on wheels” takes an inclined position, and the cargo already on the ground. Not accidentally, rural innovators are constantly find the most simple solution: how to get side car “samoraspustitsya”.

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“CHAMPIONSHIP” GOLF

BMW 1 series new car-class Golf. When in 1974, the company Volkswagen has released a compact front wheel drive VW GOLF, it was hard to imagine that this tiny three-door hatchback small class, the exterior of which was designed by the great Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, will be the founder of a giant class of vehicles, called by the name of the very first “Golf course”. The reason for this was the tremendous popularity of cars in this class — for the first nine years of production of the VW GOLF they were released 6.8 million copies.

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BUILDING A CAR

BUILDING A CARWhen vehicle type is defined: scheduled its approximate dimensions, weight, number of seats in the back, the engine, comes perhaps the most important stage of design development of the layout. Layout is the overall structure, and relative position of all parts of the structure. It would seem that a depot purely technical: linking dimensions, calculation of loads and so on. But no, it starts not with the mechanisms and numbers.

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