Nitrous-powered wheelbarrow with mega audio!
Yeeeaaaah bwoy
11 September 2009
Vijay Pattni and May Starey are your hosts for this week’s Weird World of Wheels.
It started out in ancient Greece, spread throughout medieval Europe and eventually helped build what is now ancient China.
Fast forward a few thousand years and we get to Australia. Home of Neighbours and V8-powered utility vehicles dubbed ‘Utes’.
So what did our friends down under do with the humble wheelbarrow?
They (probably) drank a lot of beer and decided that what the world really needed was a nitrous-oxide powered wheelbarrow…with the world’s loudest stereo system.
Gallery: click below to view the world's loudest wheelbarrow with NOS
Yes, this custom wheelbarrow packs more ICE – In Car Entertainment – than the North Pole (at least for the time being anyway), with a touchscreen DVD head unit, two subwoofers, 1 amplifier, and more speakers than there is space to comment on…
At the annual Perth Autosalon last year, the bassy-beasty was a Monster Class Winner thanks to a 170.7 decibel bass record.
To put this into perspective, loud conversation tops out at around 50dB. Thunder goes up to 100dB. A jet aircraft at take-off is pushing 110dB. A frickin’ space rocket on take-off is 140dB, eclipsing the human ear’s pain threshold of 130dB – so you can guess what this must sound like.
No? Try putting your ears in a food blender and see what happens…actually, don’t.
But to make sure you can cruise while making your eardrums bleed, the creators of this three-trailer wheelbarrow fitted a 49cc engine and kitted it out with a shot of nitrous to help it hit the heady highs of an 18mph top speed. Watch out Ferrari…
It took “thousands of hours” and near £78,000 for the Sounds Xplosive Audio team to build it.
And for being totally ‘out there’ and ballistic, we at Auto Trader salute you.
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