For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over…

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      12 days ago

      Somehow the builder didn’t even mention it. But there almost no way he hadn’t seen that right? I think that book came out in the late 1960s.

      I’ve wanted a Steyr Puch Haflinger since I was about 5 from that book. Pretty rare in the US though.

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        12 days ago

        That looks like it could kill two families of five in a single sunday trip to the beach.

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          12 days ago

          It’s tiny and only goes 50mph max (maybe, and that’s pushing it). it’s more like an all terrain golf cart than even a UTV.

          It’s smaller than an old OG jeep.