The Absolute Worst Getaway Car

[pavementpariah]

Interesting fact, Cadillac was the first company to introduce electric start.

In 1908 a woman was driving her car accross a bridge when it stalled. Because of the difficult starting technique of the crank start she couldn't get it started. So a man named Byron carter stopped to help her. While he was cranking, the engine backfired and spun the crank around backwards hitting him in the face and breaking his jaw. Gangrene top effect and he died later that year. Carter was a close friend of Cadillac so he decided to get rid of the crank start because no one would ever be hurt by his cars again. So he contact Charles Kettering, who worked for DELCO at the time and contracted him to being an electric starter/ generator for his cars. By 1912 they were completed and installed in the Cadillac model 30. And the rest is history.

[upshifter]

“Keep the car runnin, Johnny. Me an the boys will be right back with the loot, see?”

[marquaviouschester]

"I'd take a horse over this any day"

-John Marston

[GC_x.]

Rich man had cars. Poor man had horses. Now rich man has horses and poor man has car.

[funkimonki]

I just imagine the robbers and the cops looking at each other frantically as they both try to start the engines then start driving at 10 miles per hour

[zamaniyingwah]

“You gotta do it with your left hand”

Meanwhile: Proceeds to crank with both hands

[dwaynejohnson]

Pro tip: have a getaway driver waiting in the running car.

[PANZERFAUST]

Imagine wearing a full three-piece suit and a hat on a blazing Summer day, and you have to do all that bullshit lol

[rostdreadnorramus]

Not to mention the fact you'd be like the only one driving a Model T in the area, so it'd be a little hard to blend in or anything.

[adamkirkpatrick]

"YES! WE STARTED IT!"

Just in time for your lawyer to drive it to the station for the interrogation.

[guypehaim]

Actually, the Ford model T held the world's record for acceleration for first ten feet of travel from a dead stop until the 427 Cobra came on the scene.

[Gohan_Fanboi]

At that point the blues already captured you, book you, went off duty for the day and spent the remainder of their careers in service until they retired.

[hermannshulz]

Two words, getaway driver. Keeps it running while he waits for you.

[risel]

_"I'll steal it! _*_NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!"_*

[haystackhider]

*Inside the prison cell:* "But I was just trying to save some fuel boys.."

[birthday_cakeman]

*steam power has entered the chat*

Some steam cars had a 30 minute start up procedure lol

[allareasindex]

Model T Nerd Dept.: Set the spark to Battery, not Magneto. Then switch to magneto once it starts.

[NathanaelB]

"It was marginally better than a horse"

[Landon-Ricketts-]

“I could walk faster than this peice of crap”


-John Marston 1911


Edit: bro you guys gotta chill with the like button 💀

[TheGyroBarqusShow]

The cop: Nah bro you don't have to getaway, just rest.