Above is design, below is what remains of a round piece of wood 205 years after it was installed on an ox cart, consider that the log it was cut from may have been 100 years old to get this big around and it's possible that the wood is over 300 years old.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
the oldest wheels in California, a look at how the first wheels were designed
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Innovative and inventive rear wheel design for broadsliding
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Labels: innovation, Motorcycle, rims, wheels
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Nethercutt Museum Wheels
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Labels: Nethercutt, spokes, wheels, wooden
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Diplock's Pedrail. What a name! Somebody should call their band this name.
If it had caught on, we'd still know about it, but it is a interesting idea for rough terrain, maybe rocky terrain. Reminds me immediately of these other two unusual ideas in rim/wheel design http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/justacargal-found-most-unusual.htmlFound on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com
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Labels: innovation, innovative, wheels
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Justacargal found a most unusual prototype rim and tire replacement made of springs
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Labels: innovation, innovative, rare, rims, unusual, wheels
Monday, January 31, 2011
Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona 2011, Wheels
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Labels: Grand Nat'l, wheels
Friday, January 14, 2011
Vista Burger Run 2011, Reflections
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Labels: lights, reflections, wheels
Monday, December 27, 2010
Real unusual things from trailer washers, motorized wheels, to tank track Rolls Royces
Never seen one before, and something about the age of a black and white photo tells me that these are obsolete
I have no idea at all what this is
Ok, but why take it out if you have to add skis?
Odd stuff on this tow truck
Lenin's 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost snow machine. Most expensive snow machine conversion? or strangest use for a Rolls Royce?
no idea what the motorbike in front is
Never seen a train engine like this... must be for moving train cars around in a train yard
For packing dirt roads?
Early Daytona Beach racers with superchardged Auburns, before NASCAR took over racing on Daytona Beach
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Two of the rare Jeeps the (1959) FC 59, but the below is even more rare

Model T tank
Love the motor wheels... I'd so love to ride one! This one was investigated by Hemmings Blog and you can read more about it: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/22/m-goventosas-one-wheel-to-obscurity/ it went 93mph... I doubt that anyone did that more than once given the conditions of roads in Italy in 1931 to 1933, that's when the above photo was taken, 1931Posted by alex at 9:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Auburn, caterpillar tracked vehicle, innovation, Jeep, model T, motor wheel, one wheel, Puegeot, rare, snow machines, Tank car, tractor, velocipede, wheels










