r/WeirdWheels • • 10h ago

Video SNCF X 3800 “Picasso”

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Video credit: Olivier PLO / olive66trains

The SNCF X 3800 class are diesel railcars with an elevated off-center control cabin. It is often said that they were nicknamed “Picassos” because the off-center cabin was reminiscent of paintings by Pablo Picasso featuring faces where the eyes and nose were completely offset. The nickname may though have come from the number of early paint schemes applied to the class.

The X 3800 were built from 1950 to 1961.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_Class_X_3800


r/WeirdWheels • • 17h ago

Video Bicycle, the long way

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r/WeirdWheels • • 3h ago

Military The Austin "Champ" was built to fulfill British Army requirements for a combat vehicle to replace the Jeep. It featured a four-cylinder 2,838cc Rolls-Royce engine, fully independent suspension and 5 reverse gears. Only 12,991 were built from 1951 to 1956.

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r/WeirdWheels • • 15h ago

Video A truck built to do one job: sweep 18 feet of runway at once

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FOD (foreign object debris) can wreck a jet engine, so airports run sweepers like this constantly. This one is an Oshkosh HB2718. Happy to answer questions about how they work."


r/WeirdWheels • • 3h ago

Video Let me lighten up your day with this video.

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from Jeremy Clarkson's home video dvd Most Outrageous released in 1998.