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1. What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: "Jeff Webster" <carfindr@tiac.net>; Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 21:33:19 -0500; I was reading one of my Morgan books - and it mentioned that around 1958 the factory was looking to add another four inches to the width of the tub in an effort to please the American Market, and it; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00198.html (7,627 bytes)
2. Re: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: LSelz@aol.com; Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 21:53:27 EST; re: '....running boards....' I'll bet their purpose was just fashion. What was the purpose of fins (like on a Sunbeam or Daimler SP-250)? Certainly not to stabilize the car at the transonic speeds th; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00199.html (7,356 bytes)
3. Re: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: SDviewpnt@aol.com; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:28:25 EST; <<Then I began to wonder what purpose the running boards served in the first place? I remember Mob hit men using them in early drive-by shootings - and I could see a use for them with saloon cars (to; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00236.html (7,587 bytes)
4. RE: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:43:48 -0500; I've been told that, in the "old days," drivers in the prairies would set the throttle on the steering wheel of their car and then stand on the running boards and "drive" that way. The wind kept them; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00237.html (8,439 bytes)
5. Re: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: scott.barrie@CIMtegration.com (Scott Barrie); Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:14:12 -0500; More interesting to me is why they would call them that. You're clearly not going to run far on one of those boards.... :-) It's the same sort of misnomer as driving on parkways and parking in drive; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00239.html (7,660 bytes)
6. Re: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: "F Kuzyk" <fkuzyk@cgocable.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:26:16 -0500; Can't confirm it but it sure sounds like a "Prairie thing". Have heard that some of you denizens of that region use "purple gas" in your cars. Gives the Mounties something to look for. Cheers, Fred; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00240.html (9,540 bytes)
7. Re: What was the purpose of running boards? (score: 1): Author: "Michael D. Miles, PE" <mdmiles@home.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:05:26 -0800; Mr Peabody and I took the Wayback Machine to 1883 and 1890 to find that DeDion and Daimler both had a primitive form of the running board to tie the front and rear fenders together while others of th; /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00242.html (8,219 bytes)

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