You know, Mad Max has been influential in later post-apocalyptic films, like Doomsday and Waterworld.
Update 11:48am:
Regular Beerkada correspondent JMV has emailed me this bit of information about charcoal-powered vehicles. Though I don’t think taxi operators will add yet another converter into their vehicles.
Dear Mr. L.,
Nice one with the use of charcoal as fuel! Yep, charcoal can really be used to power a car, not just crawl, but to run at 60 to 80 km/hr! My grandfathers made several cars run on charcoal during WWII. They made a chamber to cook the charcoal, then the gas would be ported to the intake manifold. How to cook the charcoal to generate enough gas was their secret. They really made it for trucks so that people can still haul goods despite the scarcity of fuel. The trucks move slower though – about 10 to 15 km/h, maybe up to 20km/h only. Good enough if the objective was to haul tons of goods.
BTW, congratulations on your engagement!
Thanks, JMV.
Aww Teddy.. I’m sorry this storyline (which is close to your heart) didn’t get much reaction from our generation.. Tsup!
Alam ko na! Magpa-film viewing tayo 😀
“Mad Max has been influential in later post-apocalyptic films, like Doomsday and Waterworld.”
switch over to reality. Mad Max has been a GREAT influence to our jeepney drivers. I mean, just look at their jeepneys! mausok, dami design, some of them are literally in a cage, and the drivers. some of them wear post-apocalyptic garb and language; not to mention their driving style.
want an indicator that you’re old? I got excited to see the last indiana jones film but the younger generation were soooo bored with it. add to this the star wars and star trek movies. magtataka sila why we old generation get excited [or overly critical] of the upcoming reboot of star trek.
times have indeed changed. their version of star wars, madmax, or star trek [in reference to pop culture] are the LOD movies, the HP movies, matrix, etc.
hehe.. I’m babbling
I heard of it from a Time Life Book on World War2 .
With gas in very short supply that it was rationed, the Americans and Japanese did make use of such conversion system. What was more interesting was that the German actually made alternate fuels from coal used to power airplanes most specifically fighter planes, some of which were jets/
I was thinking that the Taxi Driver uses Steam engine in order to use the charcoal but I didn’t expect that he will use it…… literally ^^?
leviticus, Indiana Jones 4 did suck (take it from one who saw the first 3 movies on the big screen too). Aliens and the mythos of Indi don’t mix.
Btw, L, I read yung “Beerlenium” last night and got a good laugh again. More on this pag nagkita tayo ulit.
@Ariel: I said I was excited to see it while the younger ones weren’t.. that was before I actually saw the movie. parang nagtataka sila what was all the enthusiasm in seeing indiana jones 4.