old 50's advertisement

wonder why these never got popular lol
http://s826.photobucket.com/albums/z...Newsreel-1.mp4

Haha, did you see how close it came to the garage door jam when he turned around? That setup looks like it caused more harm than good. :LOL:

I remember when Popular Mechanics magazine would always have these sorts of ideas from the inventors, and feature stuff like this.

Don

A friend sent me that a few weeks back, and I googled "spare tire parking" and saw this patent from 1934 using the rear mounted spare. Like you said, the idea just never caught on.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1948043.pdf

Well they have rear wheel steering on some semi trailers. Crazy to watch if your not ready for it:eek:

Over the years they seem to always come up with stuff to help with steering and parking. Back in the 80's my mom bought a 4 wheel steering Honda Prelude, The rear whells would turn one direction for a slight turn, but rotate the opposite direction for a hard turn. I begged her to get that model(Hell I was still a young kid) and she did because she liked the wheels that came stock on that model vs. the standard model. It only cost about 1200 more for the steering package. I was almost sick we we took it for a test drive in an empty parking lot while the dealer was doing donuts in a perfect circle at 25 mph(me in the back seat). Needless to say it was easy to park, and a blast to drive, though it did come up on two wheels on the freeway once when I swerved to be avoiding being hit by someone who merged into my lane at 70 mph. I guess the sudden wheel spin, at 70, wasn't in the original drive specs(probably what lead to the demise of that short run option.
I hear the new Prius can parallel park itself( which makes sense considering the driving abilities of most of the Prius owners around here!:LOL:

I like some of the other videos there too! The Volkswagon trialer was very cool!
http://s826.photobucket.com/albums/z...1974camper.mp4

I hate that when another '52 Cady snuggles up to my '52 Cady!:whacked:

That volks trailer is very cool too...but I would get some HD shocks or air on my bug first!

Thats some cool stuff.
Kurt