Only the outer body panels were stainless. The functionnal car was basically a lotus chassis and an under powered peugeot engine. Many claims were made when it was announced but the final product was literally just the shell with a different car underneath. And it ended up twice as expensive as what they planned.
For those of you that don’t know, the car was manufactured as cheap as possible so the owner could use them to traffic cocaine. The stainless steel was a design choice to make it easier to cut off parts of the car to retrieve the drugs. The Wikipedia states that the first prototypes were carbon fiber but supply chain issues caused the car to be too expensive. They basically made the cheapest thing passable as a drug mule, sold it for some crazy price, and packed drugs into it.
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I worked in Alaska at a canning plant for a salmon season once. All the men lived in one bunk house and we shared a bathroom with shower stalls…
there was one guy that thought it was the funnest thing in the world to leave a log in the shower he used that morning…
it happened so often that they called a meeting with everyone in the men’s bunk house. Just to tell us if it happened again someone would get sent home on their dollar ($1300 plane ride home). He pretended to be super grossed out and kept saying things like “this isn’t funny guys” and “this needs to stop”… sigh.
Anyways… he worked on the loading dock and got hit in the mouth by a crane. Broke all his teeth. the company payed $30,000 to get him a new set.
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