I've learned not to trust anything AI says. Utter BS most of the time. Parkhurst & Ludlow were American, can't find a trace of them racing outside the US, but I stand to be corrected...
I'd find it much less scary to be a passenger of the era when one was (is) expected to clamber all over the rig as circumstances demanded. The sidecar shown would quickly make me unhinged with claustrophobia, as if I'd been stuffed prematurely into my coffin. --rats
I've learned not to trust anything AI says. Utter BS most of the time. Parkhurst & Ludlow were American, can't find a trace of them racing outside the US, but I stand to be corrected...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I find AI is nearly always wrong when it comes to historical things at least...
DeleteI'd find it much less scary to be a passenger of the era when one was (is) expected to clamber all over the rig as circumstances demanded. The sidecar shown would quickly make me unhinged with claustrophobia, as if I'd been stuffed prematurely into my coffin. --rats
ReplyDeleteMe too. The inert-era passengers in those old pictures tend to have this air of total resignation.
Deletemost of the time, they did not mention the sidecar monkey's name because they were forced into it against their will.
ReplyDeleteAlmost looks like a straight jacket
DeleteA.I. knows quite a lot.
ReplyDeleteAnd what it doesn't know, it will make up.
Maybe the passengers of the full-enclosure era were recruited from the morgue and viewed as ballast and nothing more.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the passengers of the full-enclosure era were recruited from the morgue and viewed as ballast and nothing more.
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