Kim was organizing boxes full of photos this weekend and came across a picture of me on my Green Machine during the summer of ’78. A couple of weeks ago I took a picture of my son, Lincoln, on his Kett Car for comparison.
The Green Machine was ahead of it’s time. It was the ideal three wheeler if you liked to drift into traffic. The wheels were made of thin plastic and it didn’t take long before I’d worn a hole in the front wheel, making it even less stable which is really saying something.
My parent’s house was next door to a large apartment complex. There was a decent sized hill that cars would use to get to the 2nd level of apartment homes. It was a dog-leg left formation that I’d use to pick up speed before drifting out into oncoming traffic along our street. It’s a miracle I never got run over since the Green Machine was so low to the ground.
Lincoln’s Kett Car is much more nimble and safer to drive. It has a hand break you can see on the right and it’s wheels are much larger and provide at least some level of grip, unlike the skinny ones on the Green Machine.
I sure had fun terrorizing the neighborhood on my green machine. My Spiderman tank provides a nice and classy tribute to the times.
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