Something that, if you didn't mind adjusting it a couple times a driving season that you'd put on a custom car
By far, mine is the throttle linkage for a 1952 Johnson 25HP outboard, shown below.
A very close second was a hotrod I saw that used sprockets and chains from what looked like a bicycle for the throttle linkage. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of it.
This one right here:
because it mates a Boxster shifter and cables to an Audi 6MT. I got the motion ratios right on the second try.
I am rather fond of the contraption I am working on for the Dell'Orto for my RX-7. The trick is that I want to keep the original throttle cable and MOP linkage, so I made a dummy shaft where the original carb sat, using a donor carbs linkage parts, and some Stromberg linkage arms drilled out to 5/16".
My mom's 2004 Forester(which I drove for about 50k) had a cable actuated hydraulic clutch. I found that odd for a car that new.
The Corvair says "Oh you call that a serpentine belt because it turns a bit on a single plane, that's cute."
Can't find a pic online now but the Peugeot 205, IIRC the RHD version, has a mechanical linkage to activate the brake MC in the LHD position instead of moving the MC to the right side of the firewall. I probably have a pic on my phone if I were to spend an hour hunting for it...
I saw an old Civic at a car show and was amused at how it was LHD but the brake master cylinder was on the right side.
Honda used a twisting bar setup with the brake and throttle pedals.
I was a teen when these things came out and I really thought they were on to something with this design.
What they were on to I had no idea, but I sure liked the way it looked
The mention of linkage right away reminds me of something.
Paper bag manufacturing is a really simple process and even relatively modern machinery is quite simple with a lot of linkages, levers, and cams. I worked in a bag plant for a few years and the machine that makes a lot of the cement bags for the North American market, bags with valves, was from the early 70's and, to me, resembled the game mousetrap more than it did a piece industrial equipment.
So, funny story, I started that job July 2nd, and a few weeks later was the two week summer shutdown. It was all new to me, I'd never seen this equipment before, so I was doing a lot of the smaller, simpler jobs and learning. On the last day of shutdown, the in house expert was installing a rebuilt reject unit on the old machine. It checked through a series of timing, latches, and spring loaded pins, to see if the valve was actually inserted to the bag properly, and if not, it rejected the bag, through a series of latches, levers and linkages. It's a purely mechanical device that I had never seen before.
10 hours into the 12 hour shift, expert guy comes over to me, and asks, would you mind looking at something for me? I've been trying to set it up all day and I can't get it. Maybe a fresh set of eyes will see something. So I go over and see this reject unit for the first time. It was both simple and complicated at the same time, and I had no idea what I was looking at. He explained how it was supposed to work, and I pretended to understand, figuring he'd see that I had no idea and let me get back to installing new belts on the other machine. After about 10 minutes, and trying to further that process I asked, do you have a drawing? Sure, here it is. Right away I notice the cam on the drawing and idiotic me, I think, it looks just like the oddball intake cam profile on a later G13 16V. I ask him what the cam does, he explains it and it actually starts to make sense. So I look back at the reject unit to see if I can put it all together, and the cam guy in me, I notice right away because of that oddball shape. This cam is in backwards. I check. I double check, and I tell him. This cam is in backwards, and show him the drawing. We swap the cam out, he explains how it's supposed to be timed, I make the adjustments, and it works. The next day I get called into my bosses office. Three weeks into my probation, he says congratulations, you've completed your probation early, you start at full rate effective immediately. Pure luck
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