Modern Mechanix
Issue: May, 1929
Posted in: Just Weird, Nautical
Posted: 03/23/2012
2 Comments on DAREDEVIL STEERS BOAT WITH TEETH (May, 1929)

DAREDEVIL STEERS BOAT WITH TEETH (May, 1929)

Truly a wonder. Is there anything that technology cannot achieve?

DAREDEVIL STEERS BOAT WITH TEETH

STANDING on one’s hands in the bottom of a speeding motorboat and steering the craft with the teeth is the latest thrill in outboard motoring, invented by “Skeets” Eckleberry, noted bronco buster. The photo below shows him “doing his stuff” while his boat skims along at 30 miles an hour in Biscayne Bay, Miami.

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  2. The Car-Boat That Flies (Jun, 1956)
  3. PIPE FOR FALSE TEETH SMOKERS (Feb, 1929)
  4. High Speed With Low Power Boat Has Pontoons for Hull (Dec, 1932)
  5. If I’d had this when I was your age, I might have my own teeth now (Nov, 1934)
2 comments
  1. Charlene says: March 23, 20129:43 am

    I don’t know about technology, but stupidity can achieve a hell of a lot.

  2. Toronto says: March 23, 20122:13 pm

    Charele – Arthur C. Cluck once said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from stupidity.” Take Bluetooth phone headsets for example. (Please!)

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