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Originally Posted by CobraBall
Between 1934 & 1939 Chevrolet had a dash mounted "throttle" knob attached to a cable. It was the poor man's cruise control. 
Once at the desired cruising speed, the driver pulled the "throttle knob" out until he was controlling the engine speed with the knob instead of the foot pedal. The cable was hooked directly onto the carb linkage at the same place the foot pedal cable was attached.
Constant RPM, not a constant speed. Worked fine on flat roads which were not very common in the 30's.  |
This is too funny... I was looking over a guy's restored '36 Chevy truck a couple weeks ago, and looked at how his OEM 'hand throttle' as he called it, worked. The guy even gave me some pointers on how to give it a little more friction, and showed me how it is passive when not being used. Deceptively simple.
PS I bought a cable last week...