Gyrocar

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bob

On Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:16:51 AM UTC-5, bob wrote:
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Smokey Stover's two wheels car. Back in the 1970s Popular Mechanics magazine had some plans in their magazine of how to build a Smokey Stover two wheels car. I have that old magazine right here.

On 5/29/2014 5:16 AM, bob wrote:
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This is probably more practical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU

On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:43:25 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
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That Google car looks like one of those German micro cars back in the 1950s.

On 5/29/2014 7:20 PM, JR wrote:
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You're right. I guess the most efficient shape for a car as far as
passenger space goes is one that approaches an egg shape. What this
means is that the car of the future will be pretty darn cute.

On 5/29/2014 6:43 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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A car which drives itself is like hiring someone to go ride
my bicycle. Meh.

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 5/30/2014 2:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:
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Hiring someone to ride your bicycle won't get you anywhere.

Some people can ride a bicycle many miles with a weak spot on the tire, no such luck for me. One time I was riding my bicycle along a road near the sidewalk curb in Daytona Beach and I ran over a thumb tack, I got a flat tire.. That same. Bicycle, another time I was in New Orleans and I got drunk and I forgot where I parked that bicycle. It was parked near that tall hotel that has a big. Square roof thingy on it, exactly where I had parked it the day before. That was an old junkyard bicycle I used to haul around in my van. Nobody would steal that piece of junk bicycle.

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You mean the BMW Isetta? One of the 10 worst cars ever made.

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When I was in the Army at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois (Nike Hercules Missiles)in 1963 I bought a 1957 BMW Isetta from an Air Force Officer. I still have the owner/operators manual that came with that car. The original owner of the car was a woman in Germany. On a rainy day going across the Eads Bridge to Saint Louis that car was 'skating' around on that Bridge. Those little light cars are death traps.