Have you ever wondered what a car would look like covered in 5 1/4-inch floppy discs?

Wonder no more (and note the CueCat on the dash). Spotted around Camberville.

Via Boston Reddit.

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i386 CPUs on wheels?

Kind of blury but I think those are i386 CPUs secured to the wheels. Pin grid array! Somebody who has that many old CPUs sitting round is probably in the computer teardown business? Or a retro computer buff?

Finally

Finally someone found a use for all those old "1000 free hours of AOL!" floppies.

/still using an AOL CD as a coaster

Covering a car in cds

Now THAT would be a public nuisance. Unless they were painted or paint-side out, it would be highly refractive - as in "blinding".

I saw one, can't remember

I saw one, can't remember where, several years ago with overlapping CDs like fish scales. It wasn't "blinding", no more so than silver paint or window glass.

Photo of CD-encrusted car

http://www.flickr.com/photos/serkes/3922323212/

This isn't the one I saw, which was a big 70s American boat, like a Plymouth Fury.

It's holding up very well. I

It's holding up very well. I saw it on Oxford St. A couple/few months ago.

What key is on the door locks?

Could they all be "esc"?

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