{"id":111892,"date":"2020-08-25T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/its-a-wind-up-gorgeous-spring-powered-toy-car-not-for-kids"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:22:28","slug":"its-a-wind-up-gorgeous-spring-powered-toy-car-not-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/its-a-wind-up-gorgeous-spring-powered-toy-car-not-for-kids","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Wind Up: Gorgeous Spring-Powered Toy Car Not for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-a-wind-up-gorgeous-spring-powered-toy-car-not-for-kids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2011<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This gorgeous, stainless steel and bronze toy car is simply named <em>Toy Car<\/em>, which seems an appropriately stripped-down name for such a minimalist vehicle. Without a body, or even a cover over the engine, you can see exactly how the car works.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s essentially a fancy version of the pull-back-and-go cars found in cereal boxes and kids\u2019 fast-food \u201cmeals\u201d everywhere. Pull the car backwards while pushing down and the motion of the turning wheels is stored as energy in a coiled spring inside the big central toothed wheel. Let go and it unwinds, propelling the machine forward. When the spring has fully sprung, a clutch disengages and lets the car roll free.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_FAILSAFE?source=HCL_WIR_GLOBAL__TRUNCATED_MESSAGE_FAILSAFE_0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_FAILSAFE?source=HCL_WIR_GLOBAL__TRUNCATED_MESSAGE_FAILSAFE_0\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2011 This gorgeous, stainless steel and bronze toy car is simply named Toy Car, which seems an appropriately stripped-down name for such a minimalist vehicle. Without a body, or even a cover over the engine, you can see exactly how the car works. It\u2019s essentially a fancy version of the pull-back-and-go cars found in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}