12 Comments on Suddenly, Everything Else is Obsolete
Looks like FDR’s or the Pope’s buggy.
Gee Wally, I love those knobs and gauges down by his shoes! Sooo…in the days before seat belts and air bags they just wore hats?
That thing is going to corner like shit with “front wheels always in alignment.” In a curve, you need the inner wheel to turn a tighter radius than the outer wheel. That’s called “Toe Out on Turns” and it’s engineered right into the steering knuckle design on a normal automobile.
And how would you ever get it up on a lift to change the oil or work on it? Damn thing would buckle in the middle.
No wonder they weren’t too popular. That “everything else is obsolete” attitude sounds kind of like this may have been a “progressive” design.
At first I thought it was a Dymaxion, that freaky looking funky car created by Bucky Fuller back in the 30’s. I’m a huge Bucky Fuller fan, the guy was a very eccentric creative genius who was way ahead of his time and probably ours as well.
I’d pay to see a demolition derby face off between that and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile (and a Pontiac Aztek)
I guess intersections weren’t invented yet, hence no t-bone collisions 🙂
Better yet a Pontiac Aztec and an Edsel. An Edsel was said to look like an Oldsmobile that swallowed a lemon but whoever designed the Pontiac Aztec should be shot just because.
At first glance I thought it was a roomba.
Holy shit, this is the car Homer Simpson built!
Thanks, but I’ll stick with my Tucker.
Looks like the precursor to the Dyson Ball….they both suck.
@Tom D – Surprise her with a Kaiser.
Amaze her with a Frazier.
Now I know why the old man bought a Tucker!
I followed a guy driving a late 40’s to early 50’s Kaiser/Frazer last Summer all way the from Ritzville on I-90 into Spokane for about 60 miles. He kept it at about 70-75 mph in the left lane and I had to catch up to him to see what he was driving and it surprised me that someone was still driving a Kaiser/Fraser. The body looked rough but mechanically that guy had that old beast humming right along. I think it was just someone taking it out for a drive and having a blast trying to get people to guess what kind of car that was. It was pretty cool seeing a car like that, I hadn’t seen a drivable Kaiser/Fraser probably since I was a kid back in the 60’s.
Looks like FDR’s or the Pope’s buggy.
Gee Wally, I love those knobs and gauges down by his shoes! Sooo…in the days before seat belts and air bags they just wore hats?
That thing is going to corner like shit with “front wheels always in alignment.” In a curve, you need the inner wheel to turn a tighter radius than the outer wheel. That’s called “Toe Out on Turns” and it’s engineered right into the steering knuckle design on a normal automobile.
And how would you ever get it up on a lift to change the oil or work on it? Damn thing would buckle in the middle.
No wonder they weren’t too popular. That “everything else is obsolete” attitude sounds kind of like this may have been a “progressive” design.
At first I thought it was a Dymaxion, that freaky looking funky car created by Bucky Fuller back in the 30’s. I’m a huge Bucky Fuller fan, the guy was a very eccentric creative genius who was way ahead of his time and probably ours as well.
I’d pay to see a demolition derby face off between that and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile (and a Pontiac Aztek)
I guess intersections weren’t invented yet, hence no t-bone collisions 🙂
Better yet a Pontiac Aztec and an Edsel. An Edsel was said to look like an Oldsmobile that swallowed a lemon but whoever designed the Pontiac Aztec should be shot just because.
At first glance I thought it was a roomba.
Holy shit, this is the car Homer Simpson built!
Thanks, but I’ll stick with my Tucker.
Looks like the precursor to the Dyson Ball….they both suck.
@Tom D – Surprise her with a Kaiser.
Amaze her with a Frazier.
Now I know why the old man bought a Tucker!
I followed a guy driving a late 40’s to early 50’s Kaiser/Frazer last Summer all way the from Ritzville on I-90 into Spokane for about 60 miles. He kept it at about 70-75 mph in the left lane and I had to catch up to him to see what he was driving and it surprised me that someone was still driving a Kaiser/Fraser. The body looked rough but mechanically that guy had that old beast humming right along. I think it was just someone taking it out for a drive and having a blast trying to get people to guess what kind of car that was. It was pretty cool seeing a car like that, I hadn’t seen a drivable Kaiser/Fraser probably since I was a kid back in the 60’s.