Horseless Carriages and Iron Ponies.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, Here's hopin' it stays there for a long time!

[Leo Tanner]

Weren't that Burt that did that one?  Bacharach er somethin like that.  I just remember Paul ridin that bike around with the gal on the handlebars.

Leo, Here's hopin' it stays there for a long time!

Thanks.

[Texas Lawdog]

Yep, I was a junior in College in 69. We saw Butch and Sundance at the Multiscreen in Guymon Oklahoma. Ol' Paul riding the bicycle with Katherine Ross on the handlebars. The Western movies, for the most part, were getting fewer in number and quality.

[Delmonico]

Kanza Kurt sent me this, wonder if they make a new version for a F-150, may need one soon.

http://vimeo.com/2638558

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Wonder why it didn't catch on?

[Delmonico]

Wonder why it didn't catch on?

Might not have worked as good as the film, might not have been durable, might have been to expensive. 

[Texas Lawdog]

Strange looking vehicle?

[Leo Tanner]

Might not have worked as good as the film, might not have been durable, might have been to expensive. 

Or perhaps all of the above.  The demo came out 5 years before the depression, he prolly had it perfect right when everyone went broke.

[Texas Lawdog]

During that time, most farmers didn't have the money to machinery.

[Delmonico]

Got to thinkin' also, most farmers would not have a way to lift that Fordson up high enough to put it together.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Have to have some pretty big beams in the barn and one heck of a winch........

[Texas Lawdog]

Some big beams and a big chain hoist.

[litl rooster]

Cost

[El Peludo]

Interesting film.  Saw a film of that same idea applied to watercraft, for the military, it seems, probably back in the forties or fifties.

[Texas Lawdog]

Might be from an article from Mechanix Illustrated by Tom Maycahill.

[litl rooster]

The only good I see with having that set up would be to pull a bob sled of hay or flat out transportation. It probably wasn't worth a dam on real hilly terrain.  Go out to Montana Wyoming and the Dakotas and you can find other all terrain vehicles that would date in that era for use in snow. Not to exclude the areo cars.  Many of still being used... But I am reasonable sure the cost of one, out weighed the owning of one. However give a farmer a need and a scrap pile  and a long winter and they come up with outlandish contrapt(s?)ions.

[Texas Lawdog]

Shop projects.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Building chevies in 1936;

http://www.dump.com/2011/07/15/fascinating-1936-footage-of-car-assembly-line-video/

[Four-Eyed Buck]

That's when they had some metal in them things!. Those heavy presses remind me of the first years I had at Hoover's. Vacuums were still made of metal mostly, especially the canister models( Constellation, Slimline)........

[Leo Tanner]

Grew up pushin a Kirby.  That sucker had a few pounds a metal in it.  Could clamp the head ta a work bench an get all kinds of attatchments fer it, from grinding metal ta shinin shoes. 

[mestiza letty]

Electrolux or the Rainbow were the best canisters on the market in the '70's- '90's. Could strip one myself...
Got a good cussin' in the mid '70's by my aunt for the "Rainbow door to door" sales guy that talked her inta buyin' it... She's still usin' it last I hear...

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

My parents bought a Kirby from a door-to-door salesman for several hundred dollars, back when that was a LOT of money. (About 1950) They wondered if they had been had.  The proof found in the pudding was that that heavy old beast kept on working for almost 50 years.

[Johnny McCrae]

Just noticed this Topic...
Here are a couple of Iron Ponies I used to own. The Black one with the leather bags is a 1989 Heritage Softail. The Black one with hard bags is a 1994 Heritage Softail. The Blue one is a 1940 WL

[Leo Tanner]

The 45 inch flatty is beautiful.  Them rocker clutches er a lot a fun. 

[Delmonico]

So do any of you know why mortorcycles really have kick stands?