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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 01:39 pm
“The_Real_JeffS” emails:
A friend of mine sent this picture, taken in Portland, Oregon, last week on Interstate 84:
We *think* it has something to do with the environmental movement … but we are not certain. You being an auto expert, I hoped that you might enlighten us.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a hover car, but you just never know.
Hmmm. Looks like it might be associated with Honda’s Formula One program, Jeff. A secret enviroid-technology testbed, perhaps.
(Speaking of Honda and its new Gaia-powered F1 car, by the way, commenters are deeply unimpressed.)
- It’s a drug run. Nobody thinks to look under the seats.Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 01 at 09:49 AM • permalink
- The lettering on side of car reads “HMS URANUS”.
Perhaps the car runs on methane produced by the occupants.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 01 at 10:37 AM • permalink
- Thanks for the assistance, Tim, we are really puzzling over this one.
Maybe it’s a support vehicle for the Honda Formula One program, possibly capable of achieving earth orbit?
Although I am clueless why it’s in Portland; if I had a vehicle capable of sub-orbital hops around the planet, I’d have picked somewhere with better weather to land than the Pacific Northwest.
Plus, using that old model car (a Ford, isn’t it?) smacks of being a government program….you’d think that Honda would use something classier.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 10:38 AM • permalink
- Turns out there’s a web sitePosted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 01 at 10:40 AM • permalink
- “The Starcruiser Uranus”?
I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for a large portion of my life, and never until now did Portland take on thismeaning of “weird”.
Thanks, joe…….I never thought that someone would brag about this to the world.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 10:55 AM • permalink
- This is a copycat and a bad one at that. This is the original uranus. OK, my mistake, it is Hisanus.
- It’s a General Motors station wagon. You can tell by the door handles.
Since it’s an older vehicle that doesn’t have a pressurized fuel tank, I imagine the gizmo on top is just sucking the smug out of Portland’s air, condensing it, and using it as fuel. Beats sniffing your own farts.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 03 01 at 11:22 AM • permalink
- If you tack on Seattle, TB, I’ll second the motion.
Also, we’ll need to give the rational people living in those cities the chance to stay with the Union….mayhaps a land swap program? All those characters who promised to leave the country if Bush won the election, but never did?
Works for me.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 11:40 AM • permalink
- BUAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I sent my friend the results of this thread. His response:
NICE! Your network is deep!
Let’s hear it for the VRWC™!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 12:12 PM • permalink
- I did mention that to him, Blue Hen. That part was unamusing, if only because he plans on staying in Portland…..God knows why. I go there only when I must.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 01:20 PM • permalink
- I was last there when my Marine Reserve unit was sentenced I mean, assigned to two weeks training at a Godforsaken NG base (Ft. Rilea) on the Oregon coast. We, along with about five other units were strangers in this very strange land. One of the Oregonians asked what we thought of that lovely land and its people. A comrade remarked that
There’s nothing here but trees. All of the men are fat, and drive pick ups. All of their women are fatter, and all of their dogs are skinny. They (the dogs, not the women) ride around in the backs of these pick ups.
This was not well received.
- Now let me get this straight, he’s going to probe your anus with that contraption on the roof of his car? Ouch. It’s Portland, Jake.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 01 at 02:58 PM • permalink
Where’s your sense of humour people?
Mine’s over that way –>
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 01 at 03:46 PM • permalink
- Whenever I go to Portland, I leave my sense of humor at home. It’s safer that way.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 04:05 PM • permalink
- Blue Hen, re #16:
BUAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
And that part of Oregon is actually nicer than Portland, in at least it’s mostly rural.
But I’ll bet that one of the soldiers in the Corps of Discovery under Lewis and Clark made similar comments back in 1803 or so……
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 04:15 PM • permalink
- re # 22
There were some good parts to that visit. The best were:1. seeing the Pacific ocean at the remains of Ft Clatsop, which I believe was where Lewis and Clarke saw it their first time. Ft. Rilea is, or was very near to that. The closest town was Astoria, I think.
2. A familiarization flight on a USCG helicopter along the coast. Those guys can do some great flying. I stood in the door with the crew chief for most of it, checking out the wrecks and other features along the coast.
3. Learning that two of our NCOs had missed the flight from Seattle-Tacoma to Portland because they had taken on an excess of pre-flight medication.
- The care is a Chevy Celebrity. I used to have one like it as a company car. Don’t get me started.
On the subject of fart humor, watch this youtube with the sound on.
I’ve heard that Portland is like Austin, only without the food, music, girls, or sun. Which basically leaves one with transients and vegans despoiling some of the most beautiful pieces of nature in the world. Can anyone confirm?
Actually, I like the food, there’s a fair number of decent eateries there. As for the rest, well……there are girls.
And I know a couple of county deputies there; it seems that Portland was termed “Little Beirut” by Bush 41. That reputation remains in place even unto this day, for some odd reason.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 06:22 PM • permalink
2. A familiarization flight on a USCG helicopter along the coast. Those guys can do some great flying. I stood in the door with the crew chief for most of it, checking out the wrecks and other features along the coast.
The Coasties do a marvelous job along that coast. God knows that they a major challenge dealing with that part of the Pacific.
And, of course, there’s always Oregon’s Exploding Whale. With video! That took place a ways south of Camp Rilea, but still in Oregon.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 06:32 PM • permalink
- Ghostbusters?Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 01 at 07:50 PM • permalink
- Where the hell did he get that? I haven’t sold any Pyroscope Air Conversion Omnibuses in bloody Portland. And I’m not allowed to for another 32 years. The hot-air-burning car isn’t going to be invented until 2039. Wronwright, have you been pushing PACOs™ in Portland? Wait till paco returns, mister, then you’ll really be on the hot seat.Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 01 at 08:30 PM • permalink
- That is a station wagon type vehicle.
It is the progenitor of both the minivan and the SUV.
During it’s reign as the “family car”, it was accepted as proof that a man had finally surrendered all remaining elements of individuality and/or viability as a mate to any and all “other” women and was firmly and forever a “family man”.
There is also some evidence that the acquisition of a station wagon could also plant the seed of later rebellion in the form of “mid life” crisis.
- Hmmm.
Reminds me of a Yugo I saw many years ago with a set of fender flares along with front and rear spoilers.
Which, considering it was a car with a **3 cylinder** engine, something of a freak.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 03 02 at 12:28 AM • permalink
- #32 Not to worry andy, this is just a prototype model, not a fully functioning Pyroscope Air Conversion Omnibus. Wronwright mentioned something about a test market or some such. I don’t know for sure, he was piss-drunk when I heard it. He was muttering something about tinfoil hats and two-headed hamsters in the Northwest and seemed a little upset about some 4th dimension bleed-over.
I wasn’t really listening though. I was too busy waxing the friggin helicopter. Again.
sigh
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