Boy I'll say. Notice the drip pan under the Benz...
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From: spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Kent McLean
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:17 PM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] ARE YOU TOO OLD TO DRIVE THIS CAR?
rrengineer wrote:
> You drive this car with a joystick *
> *
> The influence of video games in our lives *
Nah. A joystick is just the evolution of a tiller, which has been around
since some guy named da Vinci in 1478. It even had programmable steering.
Yeah, *that* da Vinci. Benz used one in 1886.
<http://www.3wheelers.com/leonardo.htmlhttp://www.3wheelers.com/leonardo.htm
l>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benz_Patent_Motorwagen_1886_(Replica).jpg
>
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
--
Kent McLean
'56 100 BN2
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