Car puts spare tire to use

Energy & Sustainability

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

This 1950s newsreel shows a car that was modded by its owner to deploy its spare tire as a tight-spot parking assist. (Thanks, Lew!)

2 thoughts on “Car puts spare tire to use”

notexactly says:

March 7th, 2011 at 5:33 am

I saw a more recent version of this a couple years ago. It might have been posted here, actually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4J3MW2tUuc

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.