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Pick up truck carved out of ice is taken for a quick spin before it melts
daily mail ^ | 1-3-14 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 01/03/2014 1:30:33 PM PST by TurboZamboni

A working truck has been carved out of more than 11,000lb of ice as a Canadian battery company prepared the ultimate test for their product. A team of ice sculptors from Ontario created the truck, complete with license plates and pine tree-shaped air freshner, around the frame of a regular chassis. They then drove it for about a mile, at 12mph, in a feat that those involved in the project hope will make it to the Guinness Book of World Records.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ice; truck
...and won't atart on fire like a Volt.
1 posted on 01/03/2014 1:30:33 PM PST by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni
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2 posted on 01/03/2014 1:32:56 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: TurboZamboni

No thanks. I have enough problems when I have to deal with a cold toilet seat.


3 posted on 01/03/2014 1:34:28 PM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: gorush

Should have put that generator in the trunk, and tied it to the car’s fuel tank. Now THAT would have been slick...


4 posted on 01/03/2014 1:35:59 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: gorush

Shades of Red Green.


5 posted on 01/03/2014 1:36:22 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: TurboZamboni
I can beat that.

I had a 70's Volvo that was made entirely of cr*p.


7 posted on 01/03/2014 1:45:22 PM PST by 867V309 (Obama- he's just crazy enough to do it.)
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To: gorush
Is that Ex-Mayor Bloomberg's new car?
8 posted on 01/03/2014 1:52:10 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Hope your car didn’t look like this one after your recent journey!


9 posted on 01/03/2014 2:00:26 PM PST by jocon307
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To: TurboZamboni; All

Here’s a YouTube clip of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_bsfwPE1s


10 posted on 01/03/2014 2:15:54 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: TurboZamboni
Ice Rode Truckers?

BTW, TurboZamboni, you are the perfect person to post this thread.

11 posted on 01/03/2014 2:48:53 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Cool truck!)
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To: TurboZamboni
Instead of a car wash you use a Zamboni.


12 posted on 01/03/2014 3:12:39 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: Squawk 8888

Camo ice fishing truck for a fargin icehole.


13 posted on 01/03/2014 3:16:43 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: gorush; kjam22; right way right; F15Eagle; KarlInOhio
Couldn't resist...


14 posted on 01/03/2014 7:20:35 PM PST by Rodamala
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15 posted on 01/03/2014 7:52:04 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: TurboZamboni; Responsibility2nd
Speaking of Ice Hole...

How to catch a Polar Bear.

16 posted on 01/04/2014 6:33:37 PM PST by Rodamala
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