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racing car. It was an anti-collision car,
completely in foam rubber covered with a hard
rubber layer (`the colour of an egg boiled for
ten minutes'). It is 3.80 metres long by 2 metres
wide and 90 cm high and is mounted on a
racing car chassis with four very big wide
wheels (75 cm in diameter). These wheels were
completely independent of the engine, for the
car was propelled by two small 500cc jet
engines, contained in a simple box and started
by two fans — like propellers with 32 nylon
vanes — placed at the back of the car. The gears
depended on the angle of slope of these fans,
which can move from horizontal (for starting)
to vertical (on the road). This car will do 200
km/hr with a tiny 20 hp engine and can be
developed later on to become a flying car: the
only thing needed will be to put the propellers
in its centre of gravity, to enable it to go up in
the air.
In addition to the car, Panamarenko is to
build Scotch Gambit, a very fast boar, set on
floats, which will be big enough for him to
live on. The completely timbered aluminium
hull will be like a plane cockpit. Scotch
Gambit, elegant and aerodynamic, looks quite
ready to float up into the air, in response to the
vocation for flight which seems to inhabit all
Panamarenko's creations.