[Spridgets] ARE YOU TOO OLD TO DRIVE THIS CAR?

[David Booker]

Didn't Ed Roth do a kustom with joystick steering too?  Seems like it was one
of his with the bubble tops he made in the pizza oven back in late 50's/ early
60's - maybe Mysterion or Beatnik Bandit?
 - David

--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:


From: Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] ARE YOU TOO OLD TO DRIVE THIS CAR?
To: spridgets at autox.team.net
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 12:16 PM


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.html
>
<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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