Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Probably! One scratch less or Moore on the fender, who will care!?
But beware of getting off-road! Tree will not be amused when his corn and cotton fields will be wrecked by your joy-riding!
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But beware of getting off-road! Tree will not be amused when his corn and cotton fields will be wrecked by your joy-riding!
Looks like the right movie to me!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The never released director's cut, probably!?Looks like the right movie to me!
wulf
God-Emperor
Easier to drive - not so much. You would also have to watch out for anti-tank missiles and mines. On such a mine it is written in very small print that you should never tamper with the trigger of the detonator. And you should have a very good insurance company that doesn't immediately try to cancel your contract after the 10th flattened car.
Automobile design has always been an inexact science. You'd think that the designers might have seen some problems from the start though.
For example, we have the Reliant Robin
, the Zundapp Janus 
, and the Nissan Pivo
. Mind you, sometimes the designer can go out of the way to build a solid, foolproof machine - one that will stand up to almost anything. The problem is that no designer can imagine all possible scenarios. Here we have a photo of the Overland Acuato. Possible problems with steering, but lots of wheels. As we can see, this is a photo, taken in the early 20th century in Minnesota, shortly before the car was written off by the insurance due to an accident of some sort. The exact details of the incident are not well known, but the owner of the car, a Mr. T. Hangen Trier, was not pleased.
My great grandmother reportedly always said that car was a big piece of crap. She had even Moore interesting things to say about its owner, so the story goes, but exactly what was never passed down to me.this is a photo, taken in the early 20th century in Minnesota, shortly before the car was written off by the insurance due to an accident of some sort. The exact details of the incident are not well known, but the owner of the car, a Mr. T. Hangen Trier, was not pleased.
wulf
God-Emperor
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
You mean : designing the car Barb-proof, for instance?
Tax purposes? In the US, even a full bodied car with only 3 wheels gets taxed as a motorcycle... It is way cheaper!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
I did a bit research. The car's name was in fact a Reeves Octo-Auto, named so because of its eight wheels. It was indeed based on a 1910 Overland model. Reeves also designed the Sexto-Auto, with only two wheels in the front. Both models were built for carrying multiple passengers and were described as durable and comfortable, however they were too expensive to attract suffcient costumers.
Milton Reeves (1864-1925) was one of these self-made inventors and entrpreneurs that made America's Gilded age, the late 19th and early 20th century of economic expansion. Reeves is credited with the invention of the first variable speed trasmission, and of the muffler, to contain the fumes and noises of the newly invented atomobile, and which were both produced by a company he had founded with his brothers.
The Gilded age was two years ago the setting of an exciting story on this forums, by @Barbaria1 and @windar :
https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/against-all-odds-a-gilded-age-romance.9531/
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The three wheels are an in-built incentive to drive carefully!
If it's Clarkson-proof, it juuuuuuuuuuuust miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight be Barb-proof?
Giggle snort. Clarkson is one of my comedic heroes. I absolutely love his “now what could possibly go wrong” series on farming in the Cotswolds!If it's Clarkson-proof, it juuuuuuuuuuuust miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight be Barb-proof?