Comments on: Transparent Pontiac for sale http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1142019 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1142019 Every thief's dream! Very easy to open up a door using a wire, looking through the body. Every thief’s dream! Very easy to open up a door using a wire, looking through the body.

]]> By: awjtawjt http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138438 awjtawjt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138438 Is it the plexiglass that when you get it cold and drop it from about 3 feet, it shatters into a million shards, like glass, or the plexiglass that when you shoot it with a .50 caliber round, it gets a little dent on it like it was merely pissed off that you tried to mar its surface? Is it the plexiglass that when you get it cold and drop it from about 3 feet, it shatters into a million shards, like glass, or the plexiglass that when you shoot it with a .50 caliber round, it gets a little dent on it like it was merely pissed off that you tried to mar its surface?

]]> By: JIMWICh http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138447 JIMWICh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138447 Frig-O-Therm. That name again is Frig-O-Therm. Frig-O-Therm. That name again is Frig-O-Therm.

]]> By: foobar http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138459 foobar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138459 How do we know he didn't invent the thing? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138476 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138476 There is a certain poetry in such a transparent design. It's the perfectly proportional response to all those modern cars with needlessly blacked-out or mirrored windows, gaudy paint jobs, ground effects and superfluous lighting. This is a truly interesting and appealing car. I hope it ends up in a respectable collection and not paraded up and down the streets like some slurring halfwit's playtoy. Leave that sort of peacocking to the Hummers, Escalades and "customized" old sedans. This transparent oddity is too good for those losers. There is a certain poetry in such a transparent design. It’s the perfectly proportional response to all those modern cars with needlessly blacked-out or mirrored windows, gaudy paint jobs, ground effects and superfluous lighting. This is a truly interesting and appealing car.

I hope it ends up in a respectable collection and not paraded up and down the streets like some slurring halfwit’s playtoy. Leave that sort of peacocking to the Hummers, Escalades and “customized” old sedans. This transparent oddity is too good for those losers.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138484 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138484 I'm trying to recall what they say about people who drive glass cars... I’m trying to recall what they say about people who drive glass cars…

]]> By: JavaMoose http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1139000 JavaMoose Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139000 Just to nit pick. Plexiglas is a trade name for Acrylic (aka Poly(methyl methacrylate). Yes, acrylic will shatter, but it is more scratch resistant (i.e. harder) than... Poly-carbonate - PC (trade names are many including Tuffak; Lexan; etc) is shatter resistant but it scratches easily. Bulletproof PC is actually two thick pieces of PC with a flexible layer sandwiched in between the layers. Used to work as a designer at a plastics company, so many people get this confused, so it's a pet peeve now. The more you know... Just to nit pick.

Plexiglas is a trade name for Acrylic (aka Poly(methyl methacrylate). Yes, acrylic will shatter, but it is more scratch resistant (i.e. harder) than…

Poly-carbonate – PC (trade names are many including Tuffak; Lexan; etc) is shatter resistant but it scratches easily. Bulletproof PC is actually two thick pieces of PC with a flexible layer sandwiched in between the layers.

Used to work as a designer at a plastics company, so many people get this confused, so it’s a pet peeve now.

The more you know…

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138492 nixiebunny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138492 It's the plexiglass that shatters. See the close-up of the right rear fender. This was made in 1939, after all. There's also a plexiglass TV set made by RCA that showed at the same fair. Want! It’s the plexiglass that shatters. See the close-up of the right rear fender. This was made in 1939, after all.

There’s also a plexiglass TV set made by RCA that showed at the same fair. Want!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138498 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138498 While the model picture is fascinating and it is a GM product, I believe that it is a Buick, not a Pontiac. While the model picture is fascinating and it is a GM product, I believe that it is a Buick, not a Pontiac.

]]> By: Angryjim http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138500 Angryjim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138500 Holy cow, that's awesome. Maybe I can get a home loan to buy it if I convince the bank I'm going to live in it. Holy cow, that’s awesome. Maybe I can get a home loan to buy it if I convince the bank I’m going to live in it.

]]> By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138520 Felton / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138520 Hah! +1 Hah! +1

]]> By: mtdna http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138557 mtdna Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138557 nixiebunny - Transparent TVs aren't too hard to get. A lot of prisons will allow TVs if the case is transparent, so you can't hide contraband. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzElmDu2pw nixiebunny – Transparent TVs aren’t too hard to get. A lot of prisons will allow TVs if the case is transparent, so you can’t hide contraband.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzElmDu2pw

]]> By: Hank http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138558 Hank Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138558 Back in the '80s there was a guy who drove a wrought iron VW Bug around Santa Barbara. Not quite as see-through as plexiglass, but definitely a bit breezier Back in the ’80s there was a guy who drove a wrought iron VW Bug around Santa Barbara. Not quite as see-through as plexiglass, but definitely a bit breezier

]]> By: awjtawjt http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1139071 awjtawjt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139071 Yeah, it's the plexi that's brittle. Oh well. We'll just have to wait for transparent aluminum. Yeah, it’s the plexi that’s brittle. Oh well. We’ll just have to wait for transparent aluminum.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138564 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138564 > While the model picture is fascinating and it is a > GM product, I believe that it is a Buick, not a Pontiac. I believe you're wrong, as the license plate "clearly" says "1940 Pontiac"... > While the model picture is fascinating and it is a
> GM product, I believe that it is a Buick, not a Pontiac.

I believe you’re wrong, as the license plate “clearly” says “1940 Pontiac”…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1142922 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1142922 Guess the kids wouldn't be able to crouch down so they wouldn't be seen in the car with their parents!! Guess the kids wouldn’t be able to crouch down so they wouldn’t be seen in the car with their parents!!

]]> By: zandar http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138574 zandar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138574 Sell? That is national treasure. It belongs in the freaking Smithsonian. Sell? That is national treasure. It belongs in the freaking Smithsonian.

]]> By: jjsaul http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138588 jjsaul Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138588 I thought this was going to be a 3d printing post. Which makes me wonder, what's the largest anyone has made a 3d printer? Could the parts be assembled into a mobile, robotic platform so that there's no real boundary to the size of a printable object? I want to print a boat, but a transparent car body would be a good start. I thought this was going to be a 3d printing post. Which makes me wonder, what’s the largest anyone has made a 3d printer? Could the parts be assembled into a mobile, robotic platform so that there’s no real boundary to the size of a printable object?

I want to print a boat, but a transparent car body would be a good start.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138594 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138594 That transparent trunk was bound to alienate the gangster market. That transparent trunk was bound to alienate the gangster market.

]]> By: J.L.H http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/transparent-pontiac.html#comment-1138671 J.L.H Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138671 Ja,ja. Good idea, but not as good as this amazing transparent plane project by Airbus presented today. In this case, the transparency allows the passage to see the sky. Awesome images here: http://thingsthatmakeyouhappy.com/2011/06/15/transparent-plane-by-airbus/ Ja,ja. Good idea, but not as good as this amazing transparent plane project by Airbus presented today. In this case, the transparency allows the passage to see the sky. Awesome images here:
http://thingsthatmakeyouhappy.com/2011/06/15/transparent-plane-by-airbus/

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