Could a pickup truck be designed with a modular body system, whereby flat pieces of sheet metal are used to make the body?
The back side panels would be easy. And there isn't much to the cab of one.
And the sheet metal factor could include a curve or bend to it. Whereby when it is affixed to the substrate, framing, whatever you want to call it, the metal is bend then slightly and not creased or needed to be pressed.
What would the advantage be?
If you think of a truck as being a utility type item it would mean that when a panel is dented it could easily be fixed and done so inexpensively.
You see a lot of pickup trucks with dents in them.
And actually what you usually see dented is that tailgate. Where they backed into something or something backed into them. And you would think that it would be an easy item to replace, but they don't they just drive around with it dented. So perhaps that is a shortcoming of the idea or concept.
But what we are getting at is pickup trucks are very expensive today. Like $90,000.oo or more for a nice one. And I don't like the idea of Americans mobility being infringed on in that way.
We kind of had to get away from those British in order to set up a sound country. And that required mobility. But it is like everywhere you go you encounter odd people who feel they are privileged for being odd and therefore should have more rights than you. Privileged to be odd?
So a gasoline car costs more than an electric being things like the camshaft need to be properly machined to minute tolerances. Whereas an electric car? I mean you would think you could just buy a GE motor of the shelf and put it in one? Which brings me to an off topic point? Does GE make electric motors for cars? If not that is a market they missed?
Odd people making a subject out of normal man? If I were President I would turn those tables 180 degrees for the future of human history.
I am all for increased fuel efficiency and the transition to electric cars, but not if it takes away the mobility of man. We don't need a Pansy with a mouth full of caramels telling us all what to do and think?
You know the old planes and campers with riveted panels didn't look so bad. And perhaps it can be done so that the rivets provide a drag reducing leading edge. And how much would a rivet tool cost to assemble that? Like less than one hundred dollars.
Would it bother me if only the mechanically inclined had cars? No. I guess I could say that the rest really have no place to go? Where does the guy with arms like a penguin have to go? How does he interact with employees and people? What does he value? Who does he promote?
Instead of man becoming free and independent like John F. Kennedy vowed to happen we have something else going on. Something cowardly and sick.
When you see my idea above? Does it look like a favorite pamper already catched and killed the great idea of flat panel trucks?
The catching and killing of great American Ideas?
© 2024 Thomas Paul Murphy
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