[herr_oberst]

If you want to have some fun, imagine yourself in the cockpit. The instrument panel is directly in front of you at your chest, knees are up in the air as high as you can get them (note the placement of the foot pedals) between two cross bars and the steering wheel is in between what little space is left between your knees; you're going for 150mph with that un-suspended bracket and you and your body will be meeting up-close and personal with what's left of that front axle at the crash scene if you don't do everything just right or if some bit of 1950's safety technology doesn't meet expectations.