Rare Cars #2 Cheetah GT

Bill Thomas was a sports car designer for Chevrolet Motor Company, he made the Cheetah GT. The Cheetah GT was an answer from Chevy to ford when they had Carroll Shelby creating the Shelby Cobra and the Shelby Daytona.

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The Cheetah GT was powered by a 383cid Corvette V8 with 475hp and 500lb of torque and had a fiberglass body. Today you can buy replicas of this car and you can make it look as real as possible.

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Rare cars #1 Vauxhall XVR

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The Vauxhall XVR is a 1966 prototype sports car that had only 3 cars made. It was definitely not fast, it only had a fuel efficient slant 4 cyl with 100hp and could barely make it over 110 mph. 2 of the prototypes were mockups with no engine and a fiberglass body, but the functional one had a metal body and the slant 4 engine. The functional car and one of the mocks were crushed for parts by Vauxhall, the remaining car is now in the Vauxhall heritage museum.

 

 

 

 

NASA presentation

today we had people from NASA come in and talk about some of the things NASA has been planning to do. one of the things that they showed us was the new mars helicopter, so they had us fly drones over a map of mars and we had to land the drone in the plastic ring. the drones we used for this was the Parrot Mambo.parrot mambo

Nerf News#2

This blog is about the new Nerf elite carry case. the case will obviously be made of a light materiel and is going to be a tactical camouflage and is going to have room for up to 200+ darts. It is able to carry up to 6, 18 dart magazines and 6, 6 dart magazines. It will cost from 10-20 dollars.

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Nerf news#1

Im here to talk about the new Nerf mega ackustrike bulldog pistol. this pistol is obveisle going to have ecseptionel performance. the bulldog is going to have a flip up scope, a fold out handle, dart storage, and a hidden stock. this blaster is going to be back prime and will be around $25.00 U.S.bulldog

Blog Post #3 My Presentations

This week we had to make a presentation on something we wanted to, it was our choice. We were supposed to try PowerPoint, Google Slides and Prezi. The benefits of each are, with PowerPoint you can do practically anything you want, I think that PowerPoint would be better for high school and college. With Prezi, it’s a lot more practical because you can do pictures but its limited to the ways you can have them, I think that Prezi would be better for like a job presentation. Finally, my favorite one is Google Slides. I like google slides because it’s very accessible and its really easy to use.

One thing that I did this week that was really fun this I got to make a co2 dragster car, So far I am only on the prototype, but it’s turning out very nicely.CO2 Dragster.jpg

The Journey Begins

I chose the name ‘Mark’s Toy Zone because I love toys and my name is Mark.

As you probably know from the first sentence my name is Mark, I obviously live in America, Oregon to be more specific. I love playing with, buying and messing with toys. My favorite toys are hot wheels, nerf guns, and Legos. My favorite Lego set is the Benny spaceship, my favorite Hot Wheels set is the Baja Cutoff, and my favorite Nerf gun is the Nerf Rival Prometheus.

I love cars, my 2 favorites are the Ferrari 812 superfast and the TVR Sagaris. I just love European design, but I also just love American design because, in my opinion, the USA is the only country that can execute the muscle car properly. My favorite music is European hip hop, electronica, and European rock, but I also like Twenty One Pilots. That’s a bit about me,