So let me help you guys out. About 4 or 5 years ago DARPA (the military studies and project group) partnered with the Military organization I was with on developing a light weight, quick response vehicle for specific situations that would need to be infiltrated and exfiltrated quickly with one or two casualties. So we contacted Local Motors, which produces the Rally Fighter car (here in Phoenix). The culmination of the project was this, known as the "Flypmode", should still be searchable on the Internet. I was lucky enough to be a test driver and suspension tuner while we had it. Power supplied by an LS3 with 4L60 trans. Basically it's just a re bodied Rally Fighter.
Here are some photos of it in our shop when it was flat sand colored, in fact the black one at SEMA may be an entirely different vehicle than our test mule.
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Wow Greg thanks for that info! How was that beast thing?!
LOL!! Should have known you'd know about this thing, thanks!!
Just one of those weird coincidences really. It's kind of funny, because about a year ago when I was flying back from D.C. there was a guy sitting next to me on the plane and he noticed my screen saver on my iPad (it was a photo from KOH), he asked if I was into off-roading and one thing leads to another he mentioned he worked at Local Motors and builds the Rally Fighter cars. I start laughing, showed him some of my photos from work of the Flypmode vehicle and he freaks out. He said that Local Motors heard that the government had destroyed, or crushed it, or something like that. I said no, that the project ended up going nowhere and the vehicle was in our compound under a covered parking space collecting dust and sitting on four, almost flat tires. I gave him some contact info to the senior logistics person at our unit who had signed for the vehicle and to speak to them about recovering it. Looks like they may have done just that :thumb:
Wow! You just might be the most interesting man in the world...