The New Joke Thread

[dfelsent]

Yes. A friend drives one of these.

Much safer with the single wheel in the rear.

[Midnight Son]

an Isseta, I believe.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by StuM

Actually, it said "Pickup truck" if you search the intertubes.

Yep, and Volvo Wagons are just Swedish pickup-trucks.

And what’s not to love about picking up a Swede?

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Jamme

This:
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Actually, one of the few genuinely funny Top Gear episodes featured these.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

The Brits have an unusual taste in car designs....

I’m willing to forgive them, they got some cars right. (Even if the designer was more Greek than English.)

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

I had a friend in England that had one of those 3 wheeled cars. I believe that they came into being to dodge some or other tax rule or something like that.

I drove around a bit in it, but it was not a pleasant ride. It was neither car, nor motorcycle.

The Brits have an unusual taste in car designs....

That's a Reliant Robin... popular because you could drive them unaccompanied on a Learners license.. same with big cc motorcycle sidecar combos..
They also had a Regal and a Bond..
The Bond Bug was the one to have tho'.. a two seater sport..

[StuM]

Originally Posted by GILow

Actually, one of the few genuinely funny Top Gear episodes featured these.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...otally-rigged/


In Jemery Clarkson's own words: "A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it's windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I'd asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor little thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel,"

[GILow]

Originally Posted by StuM

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...otally-rigged/


In Jemery Clarkson's own words: "A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it's windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I'd asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor little thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel,"

Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.

[StuM]

Locked down and can't go sailing at the moment? Try this sailing simulator

[bletso]

You forgot the fan for wind!!

[GordMay]

The World Health Organization announced that dogs cannot contract COVID-19.
Dogs, previously held in quarantine, can now be released.
To be clear, "WHO let the dogs out"./?

Technically, Moses was the first man in history to download data, from the cloud, to his tablet.

My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.

[GordMay]

The Finnish people eagerly await ending the mandatory social distancing guidelines; so they can return from the government mandated 2 meters of distance, to the normal 5 meters.

[owly]

I just got my first covid vaccination yesterday, and wrote this bit of humor about the experience. Not a "joke", just a humorous story.... I don't have a Facebook account, and I deleted the actual place names



Dear Facebook Friends:

I got my first Covid shot today at the B__ T_____ Civic Center.......... Frankly I was terrified! The help helicopter was idling in the parking lot of the grocery store across the street waiting to medivac casualties. When I walked in, I was unceremoniously hustled to a table where two burly men held me firmly down as a big nurse with the largest syringe I've ever seen was chuckling evilly as she filled her syringe. The needle looked like a drinking straw.... gazing across the floor of the civic center briefly because I could not bear to watch, I saw paramedics treating a woman who was having convulsions. Another man was getting a epinephrine shot.... his arm swollen to triple it's normal size.... another patient lay twitching feebly on the floor with someone standing over him yelling for a paramedic. The place reeked of piss and **** from terrified people.... the smell of fear. As I returned my gaze to the to the nurse she asked which shoulder......... I said left, and she plunged the huge needle in....... OH MY GOD..... It was like liquid fire in my veins. Beads of sweat stood out on my forehead as I clamped my teeth shut and tried not to scream. I'm not ashamed to say I pissed myself. A red fog descended over my vision, and then everything went black... It must have been just moments. The nurse was holding smelling salts under my nose and slapping my face to bring me out of it..... "can you walk?".......... "I think so"..... With help I staggered over to a chair to wait the required 15 minutes. I was one of the lucky ones........As I left I saw men zipping someone into a body bag, and heard the roar of the help helicopter hauling the lady who had gone into convulsions to B_____ for further treatment.... as another touched down to await the next casualty. The scene was unimaginable........... a veritable hellscape. I dread to think that I will have to go back for yet another shot. Could the disease possibly be any worse than the cure?


HW

[owly]

Originally Posted by dfelsent

Yes. A friend drives one of these.
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Much safer with the single wheel in the rear.

The only time I've ridden in an Izetta was when hitch hiking in the 60's.... quite a shock to have a car stop and the entire front open up.... steering wheel, headlights and all! I'd love to own one but probably never will. The one I rode in was allegedly built by BMW in the immediate post war period.


I've fantisized about taking this to the next level........ a streamlined teardrop car with two fixed front wheels and a steerable rear. Having built a number of rear steering vehicles over the years I've ironed out the control issues using a very simple system that uses body roll to provide positive stability by linking it to the steering in a small way. What The steering drag link lays at an angle between the body and axle in such a way that body roll tries to bring it out of the turn. The right amount of this results in a dynamically stable or at least seemingly dynamically stable vehicle. Bucky Fuller built the Dymaxion car which was a rear steer, and ultimately wrecked killing one or more passengers after which the project was abandoned. Here's a photo..... I know I can do better......

[GordMay]