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Re: What is this thing? (On ebay...)

To: "Mgs@autox.team.net" <Mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: What is this thing? (On ebay...)
From: JAMES SCHULTE <schultejim@prodigy.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 08:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
Sure Denise... I'll bet you only know it from old
movies (-:
Jim
78B for sale
70B Heritage body shell
seeking MGCGT/C
--- Denise Thorpe <xyzabcde@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Tab Julius said:
> 
> > As Blake mentioned, it is a driving "accessory" of
> sorts - it sits tight
> on 
> > the wheel but it can revolve, allowing you to hold
> only the knob and
> steer 
> > with one hand, because you can "push" the steering
> wheel through its
> entire 
> > arc easily with one hand.
> > 
> > As far as I think (I don't KNOW this for a fact),
> the suicide knob is 
> > illegal in MOST if not all states.  It is called a
> suicide knob for
> obvious 
> > reasons - it's an easy way to kill yourself
> because you can't control the 
> > car very well in extreme situations with one of
> those.  
> 
> I'd always heard it called a 'necker knob' because
> the guy driving used it
> to steer without ever needing to remove his right
> arm from around his girl
> so he could 'neck' with her whenever possible.  This
> fit in with the
> cigarette pack rolled up in the T-shirt sleeve and
> the 'lead sled'.  I only
> know this stuff from old movies...
> 
> Denise

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