Thread: Outside the box?

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Have any of you seen this? This is different! I got it in an e-mail.

A roadster whose owner definitely thinks 'outside the box'!

From the H.A.M.B. - Detroit Autorama - 2011

Buick straight-8 turned backwards.
TH-350 transmission.
Front wheel drive.
REAR wheel steering(!)
Narowed '27 Model T body.

That may take a little getting used to. but it is cool

rear wheel steering scares me a bit but i drive fork lifts all day at work and they rear steer as well .. a fellow mite get used to it ..

I love different combos like this.

If you really look at it and stop to think for a minute, it's actually the same as most of the cars we build with one big exception, the body has been turned around on the chassis. Think about it, turn the body around and you have a standard 'engine in the front sitting over the straight front axle, quick change diff in the rear'. I would imagine one of the hardest parts of the project was running the steering linkages since the steering column is facing the wrong way.

Mike

good thing it has a quick change rear end so he could turn it upside down to reverse drive it

That would take more than "a little getting used to" for me.
mechanically very clever however.

WOW!!! Just like driving a big rear steer fork lift or yard or jobsite crane.

Wow, that seems to be the culmination of the current craze of trying to be "different." Sometimes different is just stupid. That being said, I have rigged up my center pedal to operate my clutch and my left pedal to be the brakes. I also rotated my pitman arm 180-degrees so when I turn the steering wheel left, the car goes right, and vice versa. I am soooooooo different.

I saw this in a magazine. Very innovative thinking! Looks like something Preston Tucker would have come up with if he were still around.

Originally Posted by miraclepieco

Wow, that seems to be the culmination of the current craze of trying to be "different." Sometimes different is just stupid. That being said, I have rigged up my center pedal to operate my clutch and my left pedal to be the brakes. I also rotated my pitman arm 180-degrees so when I turn the steering wheel left, the car goes right, and vice versa. I am soooooooo different.

Current Craze??? That's funny! Guys have been trying to create something different in their hot rods in what seems like forever! No one wants what the other guy has or has done! "We" are always trying to put our spin on it! Of course, that's my opinion or my belief...