Topic: Off roading in the old days

[neale_rs]

Fun video

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nq2jY1trxqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/nq2jY1trxqg</a>

[Jeffy]

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.

[JohnnyO]

We don't need no stinking lockers, rollbars, and seatbelts.  Rubicon Trail, 1968.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vov-IPy_6NM

[neale_rs]

That's a good video. 

[Jeffy]

We don't need no stinking lockers, rollbars, and seatbelts.  Rubicon Trail, 1968.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vov-IPy_6NM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/vov-IPy_6NM</a>

The Rubicon Trail is much older.  +118 years older.  These are taken around 1920.  That's Little Sluice they're driving through.



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.



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

[neale_rs]

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!

[chardrc]

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. 

[Jeffy]

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.