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There were six brightly colored small, metal, old fashioned roaster style (no roof) imitation racing cars, that were on separate tracks and went up the side of the barrel overhead and down again.
They strapped us into these cars with full waist and shoulder harness. Then the barrel began to roll. The car would of its own weight stay at the bottom. You had to pull on the steering wheel for leverage and push on a foot pedal, which acted as a brake that grabbed the track, and thus pulled the car up with the barrel rolling 'round. It was hard to push the pedal down and the brake had a tendency to slip with the weight of the car, so that it would go up half way, and then slip back. You had to learn the knack of the thing. You jammed down the pedal and revolved up as far as it would go, until it started to slip. You let off on the pedal and slid back. But it would slide past dead bottom back up the other way. Reaching the top of the back slide, you jammed the pedal again and the momentum would carry you further up forward. Each time you did this you got carried forward higher, the object being to roll completely upside down and over. Sometimes you would get almost over the top and couldn't quite make it, so that you would be hanging upside down - very scary. Once you made it over, it was easy after that because all the downward momentum would carry you all the way up and over the other side, if you kept the brake jammed on, so you could roll round and round.
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