And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Fuller's car was first by three years. It was called the Dymaxion and was a three wheeler with one wheel in the back and the two front wheels driving. The Scarab had a V8 driving the rear wheels. Both were late to the party, in 1914 an Italian aristocrat commissioned the Aerodinamica built an A.L.F.A. (later Alfa Romeo) chassis. https://www.museoalfaromeo.com/en-us/collezione/Pages/A-L-F-A--4060-HP-Aerodinamica.aspx Al_in_Ottawa
I likes, a lot!
ReplyDeleteme too
DeleteBefore mountainous regulations drove all creativity and options out of existence.
ReplyDeleteWas this car made before or after a similar car made by Buckminster Fuller?
ReplyDeleteFuller's car was first by three years. It was called the Dymaxion and was a three wheeler with one wheel in the back and the two front wheels driving. The Scarab had a V8 driving the rear wheels. Both were late to the party, in 1914 an Italian aristocrat commissioned the Aerodinamica built an A.L.F.A. (later Alfa Romeo) chassis.
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I do believe that I would be embarrassed to be seen driving that vehicle.
ReplyDeleteThe FIRST minivan...not that's anything to brag about.
ReplyDeleteI’d drive it.
ReplyDeleteA lot more creative than a VW Buzz
ReplyDeleteDidn't one of these win the Mille Miglia back in the day?
ReplyDeleteGonna catch a lot of stuff with those rear wheels when making 90 degree turns….
ReplyDeleteThat interior would be hazardous in a collision.
ReplyDeletei'll give 'em a hunnert bukks fer it, no questions asked.
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