If its not rotted out a 72 maverick with a 200 or 250 straight 6. Points, a barell, and a stick doesn't get much simpler then that. Not to mention gas milage in the high teens. However if its very mad max with crazy people in the streets and stuff an early olds toronado or caddy eldorado. Front wheel drive to get you through those pesty pools of nuclear waste and plenty of strength and power to mow down crazed pedestrians with little to no damage to your car. Haha
In a Mad Max World, What Car Would Survive Longest?
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That movie had so many cool Australian cars in it. The police cars at the beginning were Falcon GT/HO Phase II's and Phase III'S, at the time (and for 10 years after), they were the fastest production four door sedans ever built. Ever hear of an Australian Cleveland head? Those cars are where they came from. Then there is the "Nightrider's" black interceptor, the stolen car they were chasing. It was actually a Holden Monaro! The only really cool Aussie car I didn't see was a Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T, with the Six Pack Hemi inline six in it.
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Would be DOA. The EMP would fry the electronic fuel injection, ABS, transmission computer, etc.
I have been trying to figure out how to do that on a car! It's part of an ongoing series of thought I have had on building the ultimate car to outrun Police with (purely academic, of course!). I figured out how to defeat spike strips, but not a concentrated EMP blast which some sources say is an upcoming technology. I even figured out how to fry the electronics of a pursuing cruiser so that they can't call for backup, and it would also kill the cop car's engine without harm to the officers too. ( I wish harm to no one) It's not that I ever would need such things, but it's fun to think about sometimes. Hey, if you were bored out of your mind with no hope of finding a woman, you'd need to find something to occupy your mind with too! 😀
lol good sh*t. So it's -10 here right now with a -25 windchill and weve gotton like 6 inchs of snow since last night!!! Maybe there's a way to freeze a EMP?
Well... an EMP is an Electromagnetic Pulse, so temperatures attainable on Earth would not stop it. About the only way to do it with temperature would be to freeze it to absolute zero (0 degrees kelvin or -271 degrees Celsius), and you'd have much bigger problems at those temperatures! Not to mention the unstable way in which matter works in a Bose-Einstein condensate... :lol:
An EMP is a side effect of a nuclear bomb. How bad it is depends on how high up in the atmosphere it is detonated. For example, it would only take the high altitude airburst of 3 nuclear weapons in key places above the US to destroy EVERY piece of solid state electronics in the entire country- without anyone experiencing the devastating effects of a nuclear bomb's blast wave. No cars made after the mid 80's, gas pumps, calculators, computers, internet, telephones, power grid, etc. would work. It would ALL be destroyed, sending us back to the 1800's technologically. While there was older technology which could function fine with no transistors, it has virtually all been scrapped in favor of microprocessor controlled technology. For an example of what would happen, research the nuclear weapon detonated in space over the pacific which blacked out much of the Pacific rim back in the 1960's. There wasn't much damage back then because of the state of technology. If it were to happen today, it would destroy the world's economy.
An EMP is a side effect of a nuclear bomb. How bad it is depends on how high up in the atmosphere it is detonated. For example, it would only take the high altitude airburst of 3 nuclear weapons in key places above the US to destroy EVERY piece of solid state electronics in the entire country- without anyone experiencing the devastating effects of a nuclear bomb's blast wave. No cars made after the mid 80's, gas pumps, calculators, computers, internet, telephones, power grid, etc. would work. It would ALL be destroyed, sending us back to the 1800's technologically. While there was older technology which could function fine with no transistors, it has virtually all been scrapped in favor of microprocessor controlled technology. For an example of what would happen, research the nuclear weapon detonated in space over the pacific which blacked out much of the Pacific rim back in the 1960's. There wasn't much damage back then because of the state of technology. If it were to happen today, it would destroy the world's economy.
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