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Re: Plymouth Prowler & me
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Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:10:06 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Andrew Saada wrote:
   This is a sweet interpretation of a Prowler. I think the overall form is right on and the size is fine.

It’s great by itself, but it’ll probably need to be a bit isolated in a MichLUG show, since most of the cars are 4-wide.

   As to the “x-wide” question, that’s a tough one. One way of determining the issue is to look at the roadway for which this vehicle was built and see if it fits within the parameters.

What now? Road...way? I think the closest thing I’ve ever owned is the grey space landing pad, and I’m not sure offhand which road width MichLUG uses.

   Another thing is to go by the wheelbase, but this may just be doing the same thing as the first.

The front wheels are 5.5 and the rear wheels are 7.

   A third option would be to average the widths of the “section bodies” of the car.

Hmmm, the skinniest part is 3-wide, right where the outer edge of the fender crosses the outer edge of the Bohrok eye. That would give it a mean average of 5-wide. The median average by stud-length is also about 5.wide. I’m not even going to attempt a true average.

Well, one thing I just realized is that I have no idea how wide a Prowler is compared to regular cars, so maybe it should be determined by whichever section is about as wide as a more standardized car.

   I would also suggest creating a hover version, like something we’d find gracing the skies of The Fifth Element.

I wouldn’t attribute the word “grace” to anything seen in that movie, but I do have an idea for how I could build an airborne version without changing the body very much. We’ll just pretend it’s from Futurama.



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(...) Dave, This is a sweet interpretation of a Prowler. I think the overall form is right on and the size is fine. As to the "x-wide" question, that's a tough one. One way of determining the issue is to look at the roadway for which this vehicle (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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