Author Topic: Show us interesting alternative gas engined cars (wood gas generators etc...) (Read 293055 times)

grobmotorix · « **on:** December 12, 2011, 04:24:10 PM »

Show me your pics of a technology that may celebrate a renaissance within the next decades...

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** December 12, 2011, 04:33:21 PM »

One of my favorite ads:

Wendax · « **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2011, 04:40:41 PM »

This one is nice too, showing a wood station (instead of a petrol station) in the background:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2011, 04:46:22 PM »

Nice - more of it!

grobmotorix · « **Reply #4 on:** December 14, 2011, 04:39:24 PM »

I´ve found two photos I´ve shot around 2001 near Erlangen / Bavaria.
A gifted bavarian craftsman has converted his Opel Kadett Limousine with pre-WWII parts to run with wood gas.
And what should I say - the system has worked fine!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #5 on:** December 14, 2011, 05:23:58 PM »

Wendax · « **Reply #6 on:** December 15, 2011, 02:33:23 AM »

The cars in the pictures coalcar, coalcar1 and coalcar3 aren't really wood gas generator cars, but cars that are powered by coal gas (or "town gas"). They don't produce the gas themselves, but just have a huge gas tank on the roof. And I'm not sure whether grob's first picture doesn't show a car with LPG tanks on the roof. But nevertheless, they are all interesting alternative gas engined cars.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #7 on:** December 15, 2011, 03:58:40 AM »

Grob - shall I remove them?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #8 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:24:36 AM »

No!

I was aware of that facts, of course, but let´s put it like wendax has named it before:

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all interesting alternative gas engined cars

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I think I´ll change the topic´s title.

Wendax · « **Reply #9 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:54:04 AM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #10 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:57:29 AM »

That´s the kind of stuff we love...

DynaMike · « **Reply #11 on:** December 15, 2011, 03:54:16 PM »

Great pictures of the Panhard Dynamic, thanks ! (I knew the second picture, but the first one is new to me

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DynaMike · « **Reply #12 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:16:30 PM »

Some more Panhard pictures with gas generators, all from the marvellous book "Panhard & Levassor - entre tradition et modernité" by Bernard Vermeylen.. First truck from 1928 (!), then a truck and a bus from 1939, then some pics from during WWII.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #13 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:27:38 PM »

Some more:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #14 on:** December 15, 2011, 04:39:59 PM »

And my last ones:

faksta · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2011, 04:05:47 PM »

Haha.. Reply #13 - the pair on picture 09 certainly knows something that guys on picture 04 do not

faksta · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2011, 04:17:28 PM »

NAMI 012

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #17 on:** December 18, 2011, 07:20:19 AM »

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #18 on:** December 18, 2011, 07:22:40 AM »

knightfan26917 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 18, 2011, 06:54:14 PM »

Not sure if this fits or not, but I'm kinda partial to this:
http://www.route66goatgas.com/

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grobmotorix · « **Reply #20 on:** December 20, 2011, 12:24:02 PM »

Well this does not fit really, too:

Wendax · « **Reply #21 on:** January 01, 2012, 06:25:06 AM »

Three more:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #22 on:** January 04, 2012, 05:07:54 PM »

Love the Faun...

Wendax · « **Reply #23 on:** January 06, 2012, 08:17:25 AM »

Berthelon, a French home-built tractor from 1942 running on wood gas:

grobmotorix · « **Reply #24 on:** January 06, 2012, 08:37:32 AM »

What a creation

Wow, with this slim tiny single front wheel it must be a torture to drive with all the engine weight on it.
And you´d better not leave the tarmac not to sink in instantly!

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Author Topic: Show us interesting alternative gas engined cars (wood gas generators etc...) (Read 293055 times)