Do I have a false memory of golf-cart driving?

[Julie]

I spent a lot of time on a golf course as a kid because my parents owned one. I loved the times when I got to drive a golf cart around the course and (I am ashamed to admit) it was even more fun to drive through the sand traps.

I was talking with a coworker about driving golf carts, and I said how the ones we had on the course didn't have a steering wheel exactly. It had a steering column with a loop of metal tubing that you moved right to left.

It also didn't have a lever or anything to go into reverse. If you turned the column all the way to one direction (I don't remember which), it clicked over into reverse.

Is my memory fantastical? I can't find pictures or any reason the steering would have been that way.


ETA: This would have been late 70s, early 80s.

[Baldwin]

Sounds like it had a tiller instead of a wheel. On some of the old carts, Forward/Reverse was switched just by rocking a single pedal forward or back. Not sure about the system you describe.

[Orual]

I remember that kind of steering mechanism on .... go-carts? Bumper cars? Something like that.

[Julie]

It was a pretty strong memory, so I am glad to know that I'm probably not inventing it.

[hatesfreedom]

Something like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennrat...ign/522531651/

[Julie]

It must have been similar, hates, though without the top.

And sadly not in baby blue!