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Title: Off roading in the old days
Post by: neale_rs on August 21, 2013, 07:35:23 PM
Fun video

http://www.youtube.com/v/nq2jY1trxqg
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: Jeffy on August 21, 2013, 10:43:54 PM
Keep in mind that by 1920, out of the three million miles of road across the continent, only 36,000 miles were considered auto-friendly.
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: JohnnyO on August 22, 2013, 08:24:55 AM
We don't need no stinking lockers, rollbars, and seatbelts.  Rubicon Trail, 1968.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vov-IPy_6NM
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: neale_rs on August 22, 2013, 09:42:22 AM
That's a good video. 
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: Jeffy on August 22, 2013, 01:28:41 PM
Quote from: JohnnyO on August 22, 2013, 08:24:55 AM
We don't need no stinking lockers, rollbars, and seatbelts.  Rubicon Trail, 1968.

http://www.youtube.com/v/vov-IPy_6NM
The Rubicon Trail is much older.  +118 years older.  These are taken around 1920.  That's Little Sluice they're driving through.

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/yokomura/Misc/rubicon_littlesluice.jpg)

If you ever get a chance you should watch Ken Burns Horatio's Ride. Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson and his partner Sewall K. Crocker were the first to cross the United States in an automobile back in 1903. http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/films/horatio.html  It really is a great story.  With a 20hp car on a $50 bet.

(http://pics.imcdb.org/0is195/012640.6817.jpg)

In 1906, Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive across the United States.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Alice_Ramsey_ggbain.03065.jpg/800px-Alice_Ramsey_ggbain.03065.jpg)
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: neale_rs on August 22, 2013, 01:45:59 PM
For some reason the Little Sluice picture is not showing up.

That is a serious off road vehicle in the second picture, look at the ground clearance and the approach and departure angles!
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: chardrc on August 22, 2013, 05:58:41 PM
lay a vehicle on its side. then proceed to roll it the rest of the way over by hand to get it back upright, thats a new one. guess it worked better when vehicles were lite enough not to crush the roof when upside down. 
Title: Re: Off roading in the old days
Post by: Jeffy on August 22, 2013, 06:12:42 PM
Quote from: chardrc on August 22, 2013, 05:58:41 PM
lay a vehicle on its side. then proceed to roll it the rest of the way over by hand to get it back upright, thats a new one. guess it worked better when vehicles were lite enough not to crush the roof when upside down. 
It's kinda hard to roll a car up the hill.  You can see the hill at 1:26.  Also notice how the windows are still intact.  It's laminated glass (an invention from 1903) but still.