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From: Lancaster County PA
This is cool!
I wonder if this ever made it into production?
Pretty cool idea.
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Pretty cool idea.
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From: Kzoo
Pretty neat. I imagine it would take up a lot of trunk space. For trucks though it seems they could devise a system so that it lays flat under the bed until you flip a switch. Then it would rotate down and fall into place. I'm guessing a system like that would come with a lot more headaches then it solved though.
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From: Frequently frozen MN
Looks interesting, but I bet that it ws a real mechanical nightmare. Seems like it's at least partly hydraulic.
I don't think that they ever built any outside of the concept. I lived through that era, and I followed car stuff -- never even heard of it before.
Might be good for manuvering, but I don't think that you'd want to stick the back end into traffic when you were leaving a parking spot
Cool find.
hj
I don't think that they ever built any outside of the concept. I lived through that era, and I followed car stuff -- never even heard of it before.
Might be good for manuvering, but I don't think that you'd want to stick the back end into traffic when you were leaving a parking spot
Cool find.
hj
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From: springfield il
no fear it will as many of the idea's of the earlier generations have been , ripped off by some snot nosed kid in a design studio , and the company knowing full well it ain't true will tout it as a " new and the first of it's kind " idea , as so many have been now , and be put into production soon . like the sliding roof in some of the general motors suv's , any body remember the studebaker wagons in the day that had those ? nothing original seems to sprout from the minds of anyone these day's it seems , and they steal from the minds of the past without so much as a nod in an effort to bedazzle the public and sell another piece of overpriced plastic crap to you ................... i'll get off the soap box now ...... who's next inline ??????????????????
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