This is allegedly from CNN, but it's actually fairly accurate:
In reply to Duke :
There should be no limits to Halloween. If people can't learn to take a joke or accept some satire one night a year, berkeleyem they aren't worth knowing.
So, I thought I know a lot about old weird British cars, but this is a new one on me. Shamelessly copy and pasting the verbiage I found on the pedia of wiki, then on to pics.
The Scott Sociable was an English automobile manufactured from 1921 to 1925 by the Scott Autocar Company of Bradford, Yorkshire an offshoot of the Scott Motorcycle Company.
Scott Sociable on display at the Bradford Industrial Museum
Scott Sociable
During World War I Alfred Angas Scott had made sidecar machine gun carriers. From these he developed a three-wheel car with two wheels in line and a third one set alongside but slightly behind the other rear wheel, all supported by a triangulated tubular steel frame. Although the layout still resembled that of a motorcycle and sidecar combination, it had wheel steering by rack and pinion. Its power was supplied by the Scott Company's own water-cooled 578 cc twin-cylinder two-stroke engine with drive transmitted through a three-speed gearbox to the offside rear wheel by shaft. There was no reverse gear. Turning was dangerous at speed.[1]
The vehicle was intended for military use, but orders failed to come, so he converted it to civilian use and announced it in 1916 as the Sociable, but production had to wait until 1921. About 200 were made before production stopped in 1924. Complete cars cost £273 in 1921 falling to £135 by 1924.
Adrian_Thompson said:
That thing makes the Reliant Robin feel safe
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
Looks like they ran out of parts.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
OK, that's obscure.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
I like wheel covers. I like long tails. I like the Speedtail.
I hope this sort of thing becomes more common place (Tesla powered 49 Mercury).
It is appealing to me more and more.
In reply to 93EXCivic :
I may need a moment.
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