1. Mercedes-Benz Count Trossi SSK

Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz has named this “Count Trossi” SSK after the “aristocratic” Italian race-car driver Count Carlo Felice Trossi. This car actually has a very stylish set of wheels, despite having ‘weird car design’. This car had been extremely successful in the Le Mans, Monaco, and the Mille Miglia.

There are only four original models of the Count Trossi SSK in the world and each is a ‘holy grail’ among car collectors. Recently one model from 1929 sold for US$7.4 million!

2. Peugeot Honey-B

The Peugeot Honey-B like its namesake looks pretty much like a big honey bee on wheels! It seems like a Peugeot car designer must have got stung by a honeybee one day and he decided to immortalize his ‘honeybee experience’ and came up with this strange car.

Like bees, it is aerodynamic, but unlike bees, it is a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) powered by hydrogen fuel cells. This Honey-B boasts of seats with techno-cool hydraulic arms that help various preset adjustments which means they retract automatically to your preferred position once you’re seated!

3. Hondo Puyo

The Honda Puyo can be termed as the “Weird-great Puyo”. The little information we found on this ‘weirdo’ car tells us that this is a concept car which runs on hydrogen fuel. Unlike the fuel-cell powered Honda FCX, the Puyo prides on “no sharp edges” and is covered in soft silicone so that it can absorb light collisions. If you are planning to ride this, you have to use a joystick instead of a steering wheel.

4. Nissan Moon Buggy

Fueled by imagination, designer Robert Hoffmann drew up this Nissan Moon Buggy concept for an auto magazine. This weird car is very unlikely to go into production. This strange Nissan Moon Buggy has been inspired by the Lunar Modules.

The car has oversize rear wheels that are supposed to provide more efficiency in maneuverability. Not only that, when it reaches high speeds, Ailerons are deployed for increased aerodynamics, Ailerons are commonly found on fixed-wing aircraft!

To be honest, the car looks like a cross between an alien and an iPod.

5. Nissan Pivo 2

Who says no car designers design cars for gals? The Nissan Pivo 2 is just not a ‘girlie-girlie’ car concept but a very urbane one in that! It is powered by advanced compact lithium-ion batteries and features a unique rotating cabin, which means no reverse gear is required! The four wheels are powered by electric engine and can turn through 90 degrees to allow the Pivo 2 to drive sideways as well as forward. The Pivo 2 looks as if it has come from the Pixar Studio!

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I went one step further. I listed everything which would make a perfect engine.

1. Same engine just different sizes for different applications. Generators, food mixers, cement mixers, food blenders, spaceships, lawn mowers, trucks, cars, pick ups, airplanes, boats, no exceptions! Any Brand, any Type.
2. A lot of power, but easily controlled power.
3. Very economical after purchase, no or only a tiny amount of money for upkeep.
4. Easy to work on, Just a few tools.
5. Very small amount of maintenance required.
6. Safe, no or very few moving parts.
7. Safe, nothing radioactive or poisonous.

The engine want list seemed reasonable to me, so I took the next step. I listed everything I did not want on an engine.

1. No fuel-no fuel of any kind, especially not petroleum or propane.
2. No oil-no oil for cooling or lubricating on a massive scale like internal combustion engines. One exception; oil/grease for bearings, a small amount only.
3. No fuel filters, no oil filters, no carburetors or injectors.
4. No pistons, no sleeves, no rubbers, no shims, etc.
5. No radiator, no water cooling system, no antifreeze.
6. No air cleaner, and all that stuff.
7. No transmission.
8. And while I was at it No Clutch.

I was very pleased with my lists. At the first opportunity I presented my Husband with my lists and told him to build the engine. You must understand, my Husband could do anything.

He quietly read my lists, then burst out laughing. He laughed so hard he threw out a rib vertebra and gave himself a tummy ache.

When he could speak without laughing and giggling, he told me “you need a magnetic engine but they do not have much power”, then “If you design it I will build it.”

So I bought books and designs and spent my spare time for the next two years learning and teaching myself about magnets, motors and engines.

To me the flaw in the designs I came across was obvious. I could see that the designs do not allow the power to escape or to run.

I kept seeing a picture in my mind of the inside of a rifle barrel. The rifling is those spirals cut into the metal of the barrel. The purpose of the rifling/spirals is to spin the bullet, improving it’s trajectory, distance and accuracy.

One day I decided I was ready to design the Magnetic Vortex engine.

The shaft was straight, slightly tapered at both ends, for pressed on bearings. One end was splined for a yoke. The u-joints would mount on this. Drivelines could be extended or a second driveline could be fitted where the transmission and clutch assembly and housing had been or direct, for example, into a generator unit.

In front of the splines was a carrier bearing fitted into one end of a stout housing. The whole housing was a cradle. The rear housing held the bearing and the loops’ guide rods, the bottom was straight, to the joint in the middle of the cradle, you have to separate it to mount the shaft and loops and of course whatever kind of mount receivers you require, to the front end of the housing, which held the bearing and the loops’ guide rods.

The shaft was steel and everything but the loops were steel. The shaft in front of the rear bearing and housing was drilled in a reverse double rifling/spiral and fitted with magnets positive side down. This was for going in reverse. Note; as I found out later, hang the loops before fitting magnets into shaft.

The next portion of the shaft was straight and clear, this was the place the loops “rested” in non-operating mode. Be sure to allow a generous clear area in front and rear of the loops.

In front of this clear area of the shaft was drilled in a forward double rifling/spiral fitted with magnets, positive side down, approximately 4 times the rifling/spirals, 4 times lengthwise the reverse rifling/spiral.

In front of this rifling/spiral area is the front carrier bearing and front housing. In front of this the shaft is cut with key ways for pulleys, for example, alternator, powersteering, etc.

Be careful to balance the yoke weight with the pulley weights to reduce vibrations. The strength of the magnets, the thickness of the shaft, the strength of the housing obviously vary depending on application. Your blender would not require reverse, use your heads people.

Magnets can be made. Use square or round keystock. Cut to lengths that you want the magnets to be. Touch positive to one end and negative to the other end. Just a quick zap. Be careful!

It will work. Not super long life, but it will work and cheaper than other magnets. Use the better quality magnets for moving equipment/vehicles. Magnets depending on quality will last for hundreds, or more, of years.

The loops were made of aluminum, drilled to receive magnets positive side down, towards the shaft, and drilled again to allow allen screws to act as keepers for each magnet.

I used 5 loops just wide enough to securely hold one magnet and keeper. These magnets fitted in all around the inside of the loop/circle. The next loop/circle had the magnets slightly offset from the first loop and so on, like the rifling/spiral inside of a rifle barrel.

The loops were separated by spacers but bolted together as one unit. The loops were hung on guide rods, running from the rear housing to the front housing. The loops were controlled by a push rod lock and set inside the vehicle and by the floor throttle spring.

The push rod lock and set was a rod which (in direct line with the loop guide rods) you push forward to engage forward, brought back to the right to lock/unengage moved further right and back to engage reverse. A simple sideways flattened Z.

The throttle shaft and spring took over once the rod was “unlocked” and engaged forward. If the throttle spring broke, the rod spring would act as a hand throttle. No more runaways!

I made a “quickie” shaft from a wooden dowel and magnets. I drilled the dowel and popped in the magnets. I used packing tape to hold them in place.

I punched holes into aluminum tubing and shoved in the magnets. I did not use any formula, just drilled and stuffed. I did not test my design, so sure was I that it would work.

I presented my plans/designs to my Husband.

He was very quiet and spent over an hour studying them. I then presented him with my demo model.

I had made my shaft and put it in a box, then made the loops and put them in another box. They were flimsy and I did not want them to fall apart.

He had a very strange look on his face and made some unkind remarks. I responded by grabbing the loops with my left hand (thank God my fingers were out of the way) and brought up the shaft.

I had barely gotten the shaft level not even into the loops, almost but not quite and it was gone.

The shaft left a hole slighly more than 1 inch in diameter through the office trailer wall. The loops had grabbed the shaft and pulled it through and shot it out the other side.

My Husband spent the next two days walking and thinking. He would not even talk to me, except to tell me to talk to no one.

Finally he came to me. My Husband said “They will kill us. The only way this can be done is for thousands or better millions of people to know how to do this. They must know all at once, worldwide. There is no way. I will not build the Magnetic Vortex Engine, you will never speak of this again. I forbid you to experiment with this.”

That was twenty years ago, my Husband has passed away. The internet is the answer to the dilemma of how to share this information fast and worldwide.

Take hard copies of this and share it with everyone you know.

I give all patentable rights to all people.

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