Have you ever wondered what it's like to drive a car from the early 1900s with a transmission half made out of paper? Of course you have--you're human. Well Jason got a chance to drive a 1913 Metz with the long-abandoned tech of paper-friction drive in the streets of Los Angeles and lived to tell the tale.
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