Art & Inspiration Interesting ideas that didn't pan out

Who'd want to?
Especially if you came in that Nash.

 

Who was it that made the kit in the 80's where you cut your front tube axle in the middle and put pivots to make it "independent"? I'm thinking possibly Fatman?
First thing that popped in my head when I saw the thread title.

 

Magnetic shot glasses

 

My dad did it a little differently. He built 2 boxes that fit between the front and back seats of our 40 Ford 2 door sedan. Crib mattress went on top. Boxes doubled as toy boxes when we weren't travelling.

 

@HOTRODPRIMER



Hello,

When our dad got his 1949 big 4 door Buick Roadmaster, it was the largest car we had seen. There was plenty of room for two brothers to play and have fun as our dad took the whole family on his many road trips. Despite the complaints of our mom saying it is hot inside, due to no A/C at the time, driving through the Mojave Desert areas and even into hot Baja, Mexico locations. Our dad and everyone’s solution was to roll down all of the windows for some fresh breezes. It worked, but the breeze turned into warm breezes in the hotter areas.

So, after our vacation days, our dad came home one day with a black cooler attached to the passenger side window/door of the 49 Buick. The idea was for water to be place inside the tube and the wind would come inside to cool off the water and send the breeze into the car. In the local coastal cruises, it worked as the cool ocean air cooled off the car. Not freezing, but just cooler than before the large tube sticking on the window and door.

The problems stemmed from water dripping down on the door, somehow getting blown back into the opening and the constant intrusion of water from somewhere. So, our mom got tired of feeling moist and hot, so she told our dad to get rid of the black tube on her car window.

Jnaki

Despite all of the current cruiser cars with the cooler attached to the passenger window, they were not good for cooling down the inside of any car with the windows rolled up. One cool thing was, (pun intended) if we were in the back seat, if we rolled down our rear side window, we got some cooling mist from the leaking water drops. That did give us the feeling of moisture on our faces and the wind blew it cool. YRMV


Within a week, the black outside of the window cooler was history and we did not see it again. We had to be happy with the wind in our faces for the next several years. His next Buick was a 57 and it too did not have A/C. and we still went on long road trip vacations. (But, sadly it was to be our last family road trip. My brother and I were now driving and it had its own adventures... ) as the new 1963 Riviera was the first car our dad owned with a real COLD A/C system. Yippee!

 

Is your wife that small

 

The crib I had as a tot was made so that two of the legs could be raised up and that side sat in the seat, and the other two sat in the floorboard. Me, Mama and MawMaw made the trip from South Carolina to Idaho and back to see my newest little cousin in 1963. Sorry, no pics.

 

Prototype HANS device

 

LOL I had a '58 Roadmaster and a '58 Merc Turnpike cruiser and they both had foot control radios.

Never mind my buddy from Tigard already posted it.

 

My ‘51 Cadillac had one too and it worked. These switches only worked with the selector bar radios.

 

You could easily lose your meat with that.

 

Id rock that. If Course I have an unnatural addiction to ground beef lol. Week or so ago before I left work I cooked up a pound of hamburger and ate it.....like a snack lol

 

I get the whole hamburger cooker idea, and dual exhaust means a nice double burger, but the cheese is going to be messy.

 

Allard did it in the fifties.

 

I had a 46 Ford with a floor switch that controlled the radio.

 

Farm supply, right next to the toe sacks .

 

Always a classic....the pedestrian scoop.......

 

Best things in life are messy my dude

 

....and 5th wheel parking.

 

Some people can’t even drive with 4 wheels. Now you want to give them 5? Oh brother!

 

Wheels with internal suspension turn up again and again:

like large bad pennies ...

 

almost anything the increased fuel mileage or HP that just bolted on. I give you the mini supercharger.

 

I think I remember reading years ago about a coffee maker that was in car and mounted to the dash. I can’t remember which manufacturer made it.

 

I recall many nights sleeping in the fold away bed of our Rambler. Usually when it was too miserable to pitch the tent. Pop was too cheap for motels.

 

There already is a thread:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/ideas-that-just-never-took-off.1163130/

 

Hello,

When we sold our modern styling custom house and moved to a family oriented community near by, our home had the old “track lighting” can lights already installed in the ceilings of two rooms. We liked them due to being able to move them to highlight various areas of the rooms and they all came on with a flick of the switch. This gave us a clear floor + furniture for our wandering toddler son and we had no worries about a floor lamp falling on his head.

But, when we went into house remodeling mode, we installed the ceiling can lights as per style. Inset to take over the highlighted area of the living room wall shelves and area. But, we liked those track lights. So, they were given the new job of being attached over the work counter in the garage.

When completed, the track light cans were placed in all areas of the long counter and one angled for lighting up the shelving on the garage wall. A flick of the switch and the exact area to be lit up came to life. Adjustments were made as the original area made shadows on the counter, so a little movement made it perfectly clear and I could see even the smallest screw/washer. And, counter top work.

Jnaki

We used those for the next 10 years until we sold that house to move closer to my wife’s aging parents. The newer/20 year old house had ceiling can lights everywhere. But, the garage counter needed individual lighting for specific, long work areas under the wall cabinets. Under counter flat lights took care of that new problem. So long, track lights and ceiling can lights.

For working on cars, a corded portable light is/was used to light up the specific area and not the whole garage. Now, we have overhead whole garage lighting for walking around at night, specific individual working area lights and corded lights for pin point vision… YRMV