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Hot(Tub) Wheels: Cadillac Carpool

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday July 23 2014, @10:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the Big-Splash dept.

cafebabe writes:

The Daily Mail, Yahoo News and HackADay report that:

A couple of car enthusiasts from Los Angeles have come up with an ingenious way to car pool by converting a classic car into a hot tub.

Phil Weicker and Duncan Forster have spent nearly six years converting a 1969 Cadillac Coupe DeVille into a hot tub on wheels.

The car's original V8 engine is used to keep the water the perfect temperature, and watertight steering systems have been installed.

The guys intend to set a land speed record. Commentators note that hills should be avoided. However, given the that hottub car doesn't have seats or seatbelts, it isn't road-legal.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday July 23 2014, @06:15PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday July 23 2014, @06:15PM (#72880) Journal

    Despite all the claims about seats and seatbelts, that might be a CA thing, laws are quite a bit more lenient and safety oriented in most of the country and it would directly be legal. No seatbelts is no big deal, my cousin's 1950 jeep is legal, as is a former calculus prof's genuine original model T. What would be illegal is no insurance company would likely ever insure it, and its illegal to drive without liability insurance. So it would indirectly be illegal in "most of the country" although it would be possible to register it and get plates.

    Seatbelts are required in all states except New Hampshire...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday July 23 2014, @06:43PM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 23 2014, @06:43PM (#72895) Journal

    There is an exemption for cars made before 1964 because before the 1964 federal law requiring factory-installed seat belts, no safety restraints are required. Under the law, owners of classic cars are not required to install safety belts or shoulder harnesses if they were not original equipment on the vehicles.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Wednesday July 23 2014, @07:00PM

      by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday July 23 2014, @07:00PM (#72912) Journal

      There is an exemption for cars made before 1964

      Right...so they would have been exempt if they had used a car made before 1964. But they didn't.

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by frojack on Wednesday July 23 2014, @07:09PM

        by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 23 2014, @07:09PM (#72919) Journal

        Well following the thread upstream, its not clear who the "They" might refer to.
        Clearly not the Caddy, but the sub thread was off on a Volkswagen tangent.

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