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02-22-2008, 09:16 AM
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What is it?
This picture of a van with a strange contraption on the side has come up in a car forum i subscribe to,seems to have everybody stumped.Any one know?
http://forum.miata.net/vb/attachment...chmentid=58637
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02-22-2008, 09:21 AM
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The mother of all bongs...
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02-22-2008, 09:24 AM
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02-22-2008, 09:26 AM
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Some sort of detector. Maybe for chasing tornados?
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02-22-2008, 09:34 AM
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It looks like a tv with a gas powered antenna. 
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02-22-2008, 09:36 AM
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That's a four sided hammer head shackle remover.
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02-22-2008, 09:51 AM
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Remote data reader.
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02-22-2008, 09:53 AM
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Assisted lift. You open the door, press a button and the arm swings forward to assist with something.
Paint ball cannon.
Portable hydralic log splitter (would only make sense if he's a yooper though and the car is too nice to be a yooper car)
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02-22-2008, 10:07 AM
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Propane-fueled movie camera?
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02-22-2008, 10:13 AM
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ion phased array spectrometer, of course.
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02-22-2008, 10:40 AM
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Media vehicle.
Looks like a transmitter/receiver line-of-sight antenna on a retracted hoist. The box probably holds the telescoping hardware and the motor/hydraulics.
I don't suppose they got close enough to see labels or other equipment inside the vehicle? Or does that license plate correspond to some commercial/govt numbering system?
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02-22-2008, 10:44 AM
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02-22-2008, 10:49 AM
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I think it's an antenna, too.
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02-22-2008, 11:21 AM
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Photon torpedo.
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02-22-2008, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Nords
Media vehicle.
Looks like a transmitter/receiver line-of-sight antenna on a retracted hoist. The box probably holds the telescoping hardware and the motor/hydraulics.
I don't suppose they got close enough to see labels or other equipment inside the vehicle? Or does that license plate correspond to some commercial/govt numbering system?
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It was a Pennsylvania Govmt vehicle.And it does look like some kind of high tech antenna.
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02-22-2008, 11:32 AM
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It's a geiger counter so the driver knows when to step on the gas and get back to the bunker he built in his back yard.
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02-22-2008, 11:33 AM
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Is that a nitrous tank? To give more HP to engine?
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02-22-2008, 11:48 AM
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After a few minutes of googling, maybe these digital TV antennae are inside those radomes:
MadeInChina
http://www.szhjx.net/UploadProductPi...9494529710.jpg
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02-22-2008, 12:00 PM
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Single-shot Heavy Rocket with a +1 Targetting Computer.
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02-22-2008, 03:37 PM
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It's interesting that anything with text in it can be googled and figured out instantly. But an image -- there's no way to "enter" it.
I did google images for News antenna on car, automobile radar, tornado detector, tornado chasing car, etc. Didn't find anything that looked like that.
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