They wanted something equally at home on the lawn or picking up a few things in Wal-mart. Optional front grocery basket and tow behind grocery-cart hitch.

 

HEY! I resemble that remark😆😆

 

These were marketed to 70ish year old folks that had urban yards of about 5000 sq. ft. but were not physically able to walk behind a mower.

 

Must have been something to do with the Y2K.

 

I agree it looks very unconventional, maybe bizarre and even freakish. Definitely a niche market for them.

Too small for me to have a use for. Then again I set up my lawn so I can fit anywhere with a large machine- one big tree I have to go around and no tight inside corners. I can mow it almost as fast with a conventional front steer tractor or a residential zero turn. Haven’t tried the stand on commercial zero turn I want yet.

In contrast with the first parts of this thread, I would like to point out the design has some “clever” to it with the integrated bagger. It can fit places other comparable sized bagger equipped RERs won’t very easily where extremely tight maneuvering is required. I think a few other offshoots of this design were produced by “other” brands.

 

I think the market for them was in the Florida retirement housing communities. You can mow your yard, then just continue to drive it to the store or restaurant.

 

The Jitterbug phone of mowers?

 

My first riding mower was like that but only it was a John Deer. I called it the Turtle. Sure could get around things good and good for a smaller lawn. Probably not real
expensive either.

 

My first riding mower was like that but only it was a John Deer. I called it the Turtle. Sure could get around things good and good for a smaller lawn. Probably not real
expensive either.


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I owned one of those for over 15 years. It served me well cutting my half acre. I had to replace the drive belt and that was it. Now I have a JD 1025 R which takes care of our 11 acres.

 

That CC looks like a Yardman Yard Bug that MTD imported from Germany A friggin nightmare!

 

It is a Yard Bug Made Under Cub Cadet, White & Yardman and does Have the the Internal Bagging system I think it was 1.5 Bushel or 2.5 Can't remember Perfect for a small Yard But it was messy and you tended to cover the engine in grass

 

Looks like something a 75 year old with pink golf pants could get on/off of without leaving a mark.

Bill

 

Place up in Jersey called "Turtle Back Zoo"
Apparently they been there..

 

Funny, my first thought at seeing it was that it looked like a turtle.

 

Yard-Man Yardbug

 

I think it is kind of cute....but you want to see something ugly on 4 wheels

 

 

@forkz that one looks more like a Go Kart ...hey...if they worked ...who cares what they look like?...Not everything on 4 wheels is going to look like a

or a

 

Bottom Car Looks Like a Morgan But I don't really know Cars except I wouldn't want a Morgan! Get In accident You need a new Frame Because they are wood frames

 

Yeah, about 2/3 of what's being put out on the roads these days.

 

These Daimlers still look like catfish to me.

 

Hey look… Honda’s version!

 

I'm not arguing that the Cub 1027/Yard-Man Yard Bug were bad machines, or even possibly perfectly sized for some yards, but they're just flat out ugly. The various others that have been posted in this thread, such as the John Deere 56, Weed Eater WE-ONE, and Honda H3009/H3011/H3013, all manage to satisfy the same niche market without looking like they were designed by a turtle-obsessed grade-schooler.

 

I always thought these took the cake for the ugliest thing on 4 wheels:

AMC Pacer:

 

I always thought these took the cake for the ugliest thing on 4 wheels:

AMC Pacer:

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Rolling fishbowl.

My vote goes to the Pontiac Aztek.

 

We call those community mowers...I never liked them a pain in the back side to work on no room unless u tare it apart lol ...The weedeater brand had a plastic transmission that also broke ...I don't see many of them anymore

 

The weedeater brand had a plastic transmission

I'm sure some finance guy thought this was a truly great idea. Not so sure about the engineers.

 

I was watching a yt video on the top 20 ugliest cars ever produced and they listed the Triumph TR7, bull puckey I bought one in '74 when they first rolled out and it was a chick magnet. I kept it until I graduated college in '76 when a young girl wanted worse than I did. To me the ugliest car was my 1st, a baby blue '63 4 dr. Mercury Comet aka the "Vomet". It had a little 6cyl., 3 on the tree, drum brakes, no a/c or power steering, now that thing was butt ugly but at least I had a ride in high school that got a gazillion mpg. Only one of my "so called" friends would ride in it and that was because he didn't have a car.

 

I put a small block chev and a th350 in one when I was a teen ha ha it was a wild car

 

I think a Prius makes the pacer look like a super model of cars the rolling toasters are ugly as sin too

 

My dad had a pacer it was a fish bowl lol I hated that car

 

Had one of these as a kid. Sure beat pushing a lawnmower...

Circa 1968 - Forward, neutral, reverse. Speed controlled by throttle. Fiberglass shell

 

Looks like a golf cart. Interesting floating seat design.

 

LOL! It was actually a good dependable little machine. Think it had maybe a 4 hp engine. Great for a very flat 1/4 acre on Long Island.

 

Futuristic styling for 1953. Catfish tracktortag?

 

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Futuristic styling for 1953. Catfish tracktortag?

No, the grill on the Stude is very different than the grill on the Daimler. The grill on the Daimler looks like the slightly open mouth of a catfish to me. Minus the feelers, of course.