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| Re: [GMCnet] Fwd: steering from the back wheels would be interesting like bucky's car but both wheel [message #161109 is a reply to message #161108] |
Tue, 21 February 2012 19:30   |
mickeysss
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it was in the new york worlds fair about 1933 or so a taxi ran a stop sign and killed the driver.
the newspaper stated freek car roll over kill people.
It was not the cause of the car. But as always, no good deed goes unpunished. It got the reputation
from that But it was a great design that was framed. go to utube and see all the new vid's on it.
Dymaxion car.
It was a great design. It was faster, got better gas millage, looked so much different than all the old 1933
square bodies, Amelia Earhart is in the back seat in this video. I think it could be done and put a table over
the third wheel in the back of the frame in the back lock the front wheels straight it could work.
just an idea. It would be good to keep a lot of water in the tanks in the low middle area for center of gravity for sure.
here are a few of the early films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO80IjrO9d8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWKd5tWuU4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhSonPwM8zE
On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Matt Colie wrote:
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> mickeysss wrote on Tue, 21 February 2012 18:50
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: "Michael S. Mitchell" <syntrivity@earthlink.net>
>>> Date: February 21, 2012 9:38:20 AM PST
>>> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
>>> Cc: "Michael S. Mitchell" <syntrivity@earthlink.net>
>>> Subject: Fwd: steering from the back wheels would be interesting like bucky's car but both wheels.
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>>>> check out the way this turns in it's own length.
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>>>> You could make the rear wheels just two or maybe all four, of the gmc be the steering and the motor front straight drive only.
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>>>> just for the fun of the idea. Here is a video of bucky's car from 50 years ago or so. one wheel in the back may not work?
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>>>> It might work. A three wheel gmc. with steering in the back. He told me the steering jacked up the rear when you turned
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>>>> it a few inches so when you let go of the wheel it would gravitate to straight steering.
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>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLZE23EJKs&feature=email&email=comment_reply_received
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> Did you happen to know that Bucky wrecked Dymaxion twice before he learned to drive it??
> Even with his later modifications, it had a terrible crash avoidance. Did you ever try to drive a forklift fast with the lift forward?
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> I have forgotten whether the original is at MSI in Chicago or at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. At one, a curator tried to drive it into the building and damaged it again.
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> Matt
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