[OT] You & your Car: Two Hundred Years Ago - was: OT: WWJD

[tberk at sbcglobal.net (T Berk)]

Patrick Bureau wrote:
 >
 > ->From:Dan Krautkremer
 > ->
 > ->Jesus was an carpenter. Therefore he would drive
 > ->a pickup truck with ladder racks...
 > ->Danno,
 >
 >
 > It would have to be a diesel since refineries
 > where not invented back then.
 > -
 > ATS - Patrick Bureau


Funny- A TDI running off of EV Olive Oil.

Here's a question: What would you need to do if you and your car were 
transported back oh say 200 years to the beginning of the 1800's. (let 
me go do some research as to what to expect...)

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OK, I found a page with a church's bicentennial coming up; it has a lot 
of the stuff I was looking for in one place:

<http://www.dtownpc.org/Gant.htm>

So, the horse is the main means of long distance travel. The ship gets 
you across oceans, if you can afford it, in terms of both time AND money.

Oil is around but it'll be safe bet that gasoline isn't yet being 
refined. I'd say kerosene might be though, and other more tar like 
flammables. So fuel is a problem.

Lubricants, while inadequate, become less troublesome though. I'd think 
filtering and reusing, with augmenting, your original oil would be a 
good idea.

Rubber has been around awhile at this point but (lets check) BUT 
unfortunately
<http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrubber.htm>
Firestone won't have patterned Vulcanized Rubber until decades later.

So, tires are scarce. Air filled pneumatic tires will prob. not be a 
factor. Solid tires made from, something, will likely be a better option 
(ugh).

So, what happens to your car in 1804? Man, if only it was 1904, things 
would be soooo much easier.

Of course the original question might have been 'what if' it was 2 
*thousand* years back instead but- Hmmm, jack it up off the wheels and 
sleep in it.

Or do like I do know; sit behind the wheel and make "vroom!, vroom!" noises.


TBerk