How to attach a machine gun to a VW???

Do you have a sun roof?

it would not be perfect unless it was an NOS Kuble mount going on a perfectly restored kuble and done for less then $5k. Wait thats just the restriction I would be held to.

Mario

Yeah, sunroof is definitely the way to go. Get get a trusty old .50 cal with bipod and weld the bipod down just forward of the sunroof. If it was me I'd go with a '64 or later. Those had the sliding metal sunroof instead of the ragtop. You're probably going to want to completely remove the passenger's side seat so a companion can stand straight up with head and shoulders just above the sunroof in a perfect position to aim and fire.

I really do think that a machine gun tote'n Bug is a two man operation. One to drive and one to acquire and eliminate hostile targets. Much more effective than one man trying to drive and operate the .50 cal at the same time. You and your buddy can alway periodically swap duties so that everyone gets fire the 50.

Use duct tape and crazy glue. Add some bubblegum if things loosen up.

Good luck buying one, but that's the one you'd want. The factory where they manufacture these things is in Scottsdale, AZ right by the Scottsdale municipal airport (KSDL). They also have a roof-mount bracket for a suburban or tahoe, I forget which exactly. You could probably mod that to fit a VW.

Chris

Is it an Air-Cooled or water Colled Machine Gun?

If it's water-cooled I'm afraid you'll have to ask in rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled .

H. :)

It would be better to have a precision aiming system and a gun which fires less rounds than a gattling gun.... that way you would not need to have a trailer behind you just to carry rounds. Now, if you reinforced the roof so that it would not flex, then you could mount a separately gimbaled weapon and sensor - if you can get an accurate enough pointing sensor on the weapon, then it would not take that much processing to auto-track off of the video from one of the newer, uncooled IR sights. A tracker would be useful so that the driver could have a small touch-screen display bolted in front of and above the fuel gauge, and after using a joystick to slew, and touching the target of interest, he/she could then focus back on driving while the tracker kept locked on. A centroid tracker would be a lot easier to implement, but then you would have to waste a few rounds hitting the spot you want on the target, and if your target went next to something else of similar intensity, you might breaklock - reaquire the wrong target. A feature-based tracker is definitely better. Some sort of offset-adjustment would also be good so that you could determine where on the target to hit...... If you had high-quality rounds so that when you characterized their flight behavior there was a narrow range of deviation from the norm, then the computer could factor in your velocity, the range of the target (ohhh... need a cheap laser range finder), and adjust the lead accordingly. Hmmm... VW has analog speedometer... I wonder if a wind velocity meter would address both ambient wind speed and vehicle speed? Since this system is for close range targets, "down range" conditions would, in effect, be local conditions.Of course you may want to ping the target more than once if it is coming towards you rather than being in the ideal position of crossing your path (or steadily matching your speed in front or behind...).

Two other issues to deal with would be affordability and, maybe worse.... detectability.

Hmm... if you did not want a telescoping system that would rise up out of the pre '64 sunroof on command, what about housing the gadget in a "flying saucer" on the hard-top roof and put fake ads on the side for "Flying Saucer Pizza"? The clamshells of the saucer could open up to give the weapon room to slew in El, and the circular shape would allow full 360 degrees slewing in Az. One problem would be effective elevation. You would be fairly limited to ground targets unless you had some sort of folding mechanism for the top of the saucer, and the entire mechanism would have to be high enough above the roof to allow the back of the weapon to not strike the surface of the roof for high targets, and the muzzle striking the roof for low, close-in targets... well, if the diameter of the opening were about a yard wide, then that would allow for amunition and slewing..... but then you have to make it practical for wet weather operations...... hmmm... make that an uncooled IR viewer AND a visible light camera.... that way you would not have too much degraded performance if it is foggy or raining. Oh, and with the visible light camera, you could record the results for damage assessment AND to make cool YouTube videos! ;)

-- KWW '65 Beetle (Jenny the IOC) '64 Beetle (TBD the Blue Wave) wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

I think you are better off with tank conversion. Its pricey, but you can't put a price on your life.