Would that Green Hornet upside-down car trick work?

[Dr Hermes]

Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.

My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

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[h***@gmail.com]

What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car upside down?
Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

You'd need another locking dipstick for the trans fluid, yeah. Also,
this is 1966, so it's gonna be a bitch to start if the carb float bowl
is totally empty. Might need a carburetor that doesn't mind being
upside-down, or else you could try and get some 1966-vintage fuel
injectors to work. (Good luck with that, the engine computer hasn't
been invented yet.) Also, the radiator overflow tank needs to lock and
seal when the thing is upside down; there can't just be a hose coming
out the side of it. The gas tank probably has charcoal cylinders, so
there's gonna need to be some kind of valve between those and the gas
tank that shuts when the thing is upside down, and (of course) the
breather holes in the filler neck will need the same treatment.

Did I forget anything?

[r***@westnet.poe.com]

Post by h***@gmail.com

What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car upside down?
Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

You'd need another locking dipstick for the trans fluid, yeah. Also,
this is 1966, so it's gonna be a bitch to start if the carb float bowl
is totally empty. Might need a carburetor that doesn't mind being
upside-down, or else you could try and get some 1966-vintage fuel
injectors to work.

Use an aircraft engine, which are generally engineer not to be so
dependant on gravity.




John

[Mary Shafer]

Post by r***@westnet.poe.com

Post by h***@gmail.com

What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car upside down?
Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

You'd need another locking dipstick for the trans fluid, yeah. Also,
this is 1966, so it's gonna be a bitch to start if the carb float bowl
is totally empty. Might need a carburetor that doesn't mind being
upside-down, or else you could try and get some 1966-vintage fuel
injectors to work.

Use an aircraft engine, which are generally engineer not to be so
dependant on gravity.

Only if they're so designed. For example, most aircraft can't fly
inverted for very long before the engines develop problems. The
demonstration teams have had to make modification to at least one
model of airplane for that reason.

Mary

[Hactar]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

The fuel filler isn't that tight, so it would drip. In the cars I've
dealt with, the windshield reservoir is a plastic container that would
either pop open or leak badly if the car were inverted. The sludge and
metal shavings in the oilpan would go to the cylinder head and clog the
small passages there. The shocks and springs aren't meant to handle that
big a negative load.

In general, lots of bad things would happen if you inverted a car.

[Dr Hermes]

Thanks for the quick and informative responses, you guys. I had a
feeling Britt Reid would be looking for a new car the first time he
tried this arrangement but I didn't know why. All the changes he would
have to make on the car to do this would be so expensive that he could
afford a second Black Beauty instead.

That's not even wondering how he could fit rocket launchers under the
headlights, or how the car had green-colored 'infra-red' headlights for
night driving.
Not to mention the fact that neither he nor Kato wore any gas masks and
yet could walk into the cloud of anesthetic vapor he sprayed from that
gas gun without being affected.

Oh well, it's still fun to watch a young Bruce Lee beating up American
gangsters twice his size.


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[mdginzo]

My guess is that the car isn't upside down for long. Once it goes under a
mechanism turns it rightside up for storage.

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

[Greg Goss]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

Aren't there overflow vents on the brake fluid?

[Guy]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

If you had enough money, you could get a motor built that can *run* upside
down, like aerobatic airplanes need.

[Les Albert]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

All the liners of the cup-holders would fall out, and the floor mats
would have to be put back in position.

Les

[Dave T]

Post by Les Albert

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

All the liners of the cup-holders would fall out, and the floor mats
would have to be put back in position.

All the loose change would fall out of the cubby under the radio as
well. At least, the change that wasn't stuck there with a layer of
dried Coke.

[Les Albert]

Post by Dave T

Post by Les Albert

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

All the liners of the cup-holders would fall out, and the floor mats
would have to be put back in position.

All the loose change would fall out of the cubby under the radio as
well. At least, the change that wasn't stuck there with a layer of
dried Coke.

Dried Coke in the well under the radio? You haven't been using your
cup holders.

Les

[groo]

Post by Les Albert

Post by Dave T

Post by Les Albert

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys
would enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored.
Clamps would pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round
section of the floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up
on end. The sports car would go down under the floor and the Black
Beauty would come up from where it had been hanging upside down like
a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black
Beauty's dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the
engine before the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had
a special locking dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would
there be to storing a car upside down? Would the transmission fluid
be harmed, or anything else?

All the liners of the cup-holders would fall out, and the floor mats
would have to be put back in position.

All the loose change would fall out of the cubby under the radio as
well. At least, the change that wasn't stuck there with a layer of
dried Coke.

Dried Coke in the well under the radio? You haven't been using your
cup holders.

Kato was a slob.

[John Hatpin]

Post by Dave T

Post by Les Albert

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?

All the liners of the cup-holders would fall out, and the floor mats
would have to be put back in position.

All the loose change would fall out of the cubby under the radio as
well. At least, the change that wasn't stuck there with a layer of
dried Coke.

And all the shopping on the back seat would get thrown around too.

[Bill Turlock]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

Sheesh!
Let's pretend that the underside car is supported by a quick-release
gimbal arrangement. No problems.

Bill

[Dilbert Firestorm]

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

hmm..

I'm sure that car would be totally customized for the purpose its intended
to do.

[Jerry Bauer]

Post by Dilbert Firestorm

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

hmm..
I'm sure that car would be totally customized for the purpose its intended
to do.

I think the writers just made it up.

[Dilbert Firestorm]

Post by Jerry Bauer

Post by Dilbert Firestorm

Post by Dr Hermes
Remember the 1966 series with Van Williams and Bruce Lee? Our boys would
enter the garage where Britt Reid's sports car was stored. Clamps would
pop up to grip the underside of the car, a big round section of the
floor would then rotate like a manhole cover going up on end. The sports
car would go down under the floor and the Black Beauty would come up
from where it had been hanging upside down like a bat during the day.
My first thought was that Kato would then have to put the Black Beauty's
dipstick back, replace a quart of oil and clean off the engine before
the crimefighters could get going. But maybe they had a special locking
dipstick fashioned. What other drawbacks would there be to storing a car
upside down? Would the transmission fluid be harmed, or anything else?
http://community.webtv.net/drhermes/ForbiddenKnowledge

hmm..
I'm sure that car would be totally customized for the purpose its intended
to do.

I think the writers just made it up.

probably, but it sure was one hell of a tricked out car.