EV Hovercraft

[NJ John]

This place is located right behind my restaurant. So I finally googled them. I’ve always been a closet fan of hovercrafts. These start at $200k! Most of that video is shot in the upper Chesapeake right here in town.
https://www.vonmercier.co/
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[The Sage]

What if I don't want my hovercraft to look THAT completely stupid?

For $200k they should make one that's tasteful too.
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[calvinater]

for that price it shhould be full of eels.
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[NJ John]

Yeah, it looks like a kit car on a hovercraft skirt. It doesn’t seem to utilize any space, but that seems to be the case on all hovercrafts. That’s it, I’m going to get an old Popular Mechanics and a lawnmower and build my own. Or maybe vw power.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[67rustavenger]

I spent a winter in Cheektowaga Ny. Many years ago.
The City of Niagara put on a winter festival in a local park with a frozen lake alongside the park.
The local FD had a couple of rescue hoover craft running on the frozen lake.
Those Fire Fighters appeared to be having a great time sliding those hoover craft across the ice.

I say go for it John, build a hoover craft and power it with a couple turbo charged VW engines. It'll rip on the water, ice, snow, sand, wet grass......

The big issue with hoover craft is, the skirts wear out from friction.
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[finster]

[oprn]

Range? They don't seem to address that.
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[NJ John]

And…hovercrafts have to float. So you can shut them off and float on water.
At this point in my life, I would rather a chopped bug.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

[oprn]

For that kind of money I would buy a nicer house instead.
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[NJ John]

This place has seemed closed for about 2 months. Just this week I see them moving stuff out. Either closing or downsizing. The website is still up, but contact info is off. They dragged an old Scat gas powered hovercraft out of the building. Would love to take a ride in one of those.
I wish them luck in whatever their up to next.
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage

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[Malokin Martin]

Adding a couple pontoons to a Model S would be cheaper, have better range and look better.