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Topic: Sweet Ride

Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Subject: Sweet Ride
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 1:53pm

I was looking through Youtube when I found this. Is this a forum member's? If so it's very unique and awesome. If it's not a member's it's still an awesome looking machine.

[TUBE]WpUcRYq73YY&NR=1[/TUBE]

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1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500

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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 1:58pm

Too bad they don't show the third wheel.

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Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 2:09pm

Third Wheel!! I thought it was magic. LOL!

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1937 WC, 1950 CA, 1959 D14, 1967 190XT, 2006 Ram 3500

Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 8:28pm

Have you seen that one up close, Charlie?

You probably recall a newspaper cartoon from many, many years ago... Smokey Stover, that drove a two-wheel'd car called the "Foo Mobile".

http://www.smokey-stover.com/

Well, some clever guy named Pete Schlatter decided to build one powered by a lawnmower engine...

http://www.schlattersinc.com/foo_mobile.shtml

The way it stayed balanced, was by actually having FOUR wheels... two on the left, two on the right... and they rolled on the ground INSIDE a tire that had essentially no air pressure. The design was featured in Popular Mechanics. I remember it well, as I read that (and a zillion other things) while being flat on my back, in a hospital bed for most of 1982... I had lots of time to read. Aha- it was June of '78. (Yeah, I actually started reading the current issues, and went backwards to about... 1954... my dad still has most of 'em).

If you look closely at this video, you'll see that those tires are rather flat looking... I'll bet he built that cute bugger using Pete's design...

Posted By: Jeff-in-Kunkletown
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 9:00pm

Guess thats the AC version of a Segway.