...they did in Colorado.

Yes unfortunately this story seems to have been circulating on the internet with the “heat from the engine” bit and other inaccuracies since the early 2000s. The only earlier mentions I could find online of this invention have the facts correct. Like a lot of things on the internet, once it’s out there, it’s out there…

If you read the patent, each car would have had its own heat source. The heat did not come from the engine.

Some googling reveals that this is one of the those unfortunate corruptions of history that occurs when somebody makes a mistake (ie. presuming a “car heater” means a heater in an automobile) and then people keep repeating the mistake - and each repetition only seems to provide more credibility for the claim the next…

Two things to point out here: the patent drawing shows a railway car, and the text makes it clear her invention was for railway cars. Second, the patent describes a self contained system, with its own combustion chamber, it didn’t rely on the heat produced by an engine.

This is your brain on guns.

Naw, completely correct.

Nader was highly critical of the VW though. In fact he wrote a book just about Volkswagens.

lol it’s people who believe Nader handed the election to Bush that are responsible for Trump and his racist friends getting power.

I feel like we’re due for an honest historical reevaluation of Nader, now that that boomers all have one foot in the grave, and perhaps the man and his activities can be considered more objectively. Nader’s criticism of automotive journalism made automotive journalists turn him into the symbol of all government…

It’s honestly exceptionally hilarious to me that people will blame Nader for the 2000 election, and not, you know, the millions of people who voted for Bush anyway.

I don’t believe any exist now. I know there was a member of the 360 Driver’s club who had one, but it was crushed by his carport during a hurricane in the 1980s. I didn’t believe any came over “officially” until I saw it and the specs listed on the catalog of imports for ‘68 (I think this was printed in either Car &…

I haven’t ever seen an Auto-Clutch unfortunately.

I’ve only seen two ‘68s and they both had the plastic rear window.

Sort of. The U.S. spec cars got a lot of options as standard, which weren’t standard in Japan. The 25hp engine, 4 speed transmission, and automatic fuel cutoff were optional in the home market. The 1968 US cars (which had none of the options mentioned above) were virtually identical to what the Japanese got, except…

I drove a 25hp Subaru 360 from Denver, CO, to Savannah, GA, and it was surprisingly well behaved at 55-60mph.

The oil filler is what finally got me on it. I kept wanting to say Porsche, but that oil filler just didn’t match anything.

I’m thinking B is a Tatra.

Ok redoing my answers:

B appears to have four cylinders, that’s throwing me off.