Comments on: Prizes for Home-Built Baby Autos! (Jun, 1931)

By: Don

Don — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:11:29 +0000

StanFloride == Defaults Iron or Faulted Rosin or Dials Fortune or Radios Fluent or . . . .

Don == nod

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:48:40 +0000

oops, should be: ‘name of the magazine on the last page.’

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:47:08 +0000

Isn’t there a porn movie with the same name as the book on the last page?
The author’s name anagrams to: Hyper Meaty Guru or Uprear Thyme Guy or Trumpery Gay Hue

(okay, I’ll stop now)

By: Toronto

Toronto — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:22:57 +0000

I remember a car we made when I was about 12 that had no throttle in the conventional sense. Instead, the speed was controlled by adjusting the tension of the drive belt – basically a slip clutch.

We did that because the centrifugal clutch on the motor was too hair-trigger to be useful. It was an Iron Horse motor from an old Maytag washing machine, with a step-on starter (effectively under 1 HP as I recall, but probably rated 2HP.)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:09:48 +0000

TimE: Good catch.

By: TimE

TimE — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:44:09 +0000

Anyone else notice that Artist’s Rendering #2 has no throttle or brakes? Unless “Kick Starter” is the coolest name for a gas pedal anyone’s ever used…

By: KD5ZS

KD5ZS — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:30:02 +0000

The suspension system is really crude……

By: David

David — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:58:30 +0000

I wonder who won?