Let's Talk Cyclecars

Merry Christmas and the best to all.
A perfect light rolling ch***is for my Curtiss OX5 engine.

 

I just picked up J Higgins 1920 Monroe racer

 

1928 Benjamin for sale...http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/749099729.htm?ca=2_s

that's not to say 28 benjamins either....

 

Yes,extremely high price.Especially if you bought it at that price and purchased the correct motor and transmission to re-install into the car.

 

Morgans via Cuore Clasico...

 

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Rolf,​

Just to add some wings and you would have magnificient flying machine, if not better but more interesting than Curtiss ever made or imagined!

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

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Bob, ​

Wish I had such cars in my childhood! With a freind, I tried once to build it using nice wood-box and baby-kart wheels, somehting in a style that Mickey Mause's nephew had. Without good tools and materials, experience and knowlegde either - we never finished it. Of course, it would be without enigne, just used as gravity racer, even we didn't know for them yet, but found nice and long, down-going alley in Belgrade's central park.

Zoran​

 

Zoran,even though you never finished it, I can tell you still have a smile on your face from the experience.

 

More Morgan...via G.L. ....

 

1921 picture of Ferry Porsche via M.T. ....

 

a couple of Lamberts from R.A. ...

 

I saw this cool Morgan at the vintage races at Lime Rock Ct. last summer. I can't identify the engine but it's the first Mog trike I've seen that didn't have a motorcycle V twin out front.

 

From P. R. ....

 

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... could that be Special made by Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, famous creator of Morris Minor and magnificent MINI?
A few years before The Seond World War, his Lightweight Special was co-designed with George-John Miller Pendlebury Dowsonhad... It was well-known for its rubber-elastic independent suspension allaround, if I didn't mix something!
(inspiration for Mini's suspension some two decades after that)

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

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PHOTOS AND SKETCHES!

 

Merry Christmas to all who contribute to this great thread!!

 

1926 DeCourcy. 1100CC /8 cylinder engine. M.H. pics.

 

GIMA Grand Sport w/1100CC CIME engine via M.H.

 

That's a beauty! Merry Christmas, Bob

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That's a nice piece of automotive art. I'd love to hear it run.

 

Merry Christmas to you Ed! I hope you're still enjoying life making music!

 

Miss Bacfire via G.L . .....

 

D'Yrsan via marc and J-J C. ....

 

Hello Bob,​

You are quite right - that smile last for more then five decades, even dreams made full circle!

We didn't have such kid-cars in Belgrade, so I didn't know anything about suspension, steering, power (pedals or small engines), and have to "invent" all that by myself! Happily, I had a few anginas, so have time to made a lot of sketches while spent days in bed...

After the first fail, my desires grow bigger and bigger and "designs" more serious (appeared foreign magazines!) ... until one day I bought Triumph Herald 13/60 with good mechanics but bad body! Excellent for transformation to English-style special! Unfortunately, it was stolen and sold to junk-yard as old steel. Situation change to worse and I abounded such ideas... After a few decades more, I am building kid-cars: the first (yellow one) for friend's son and the second (red) for my granddaughter... Now, start preparations for two more! ... and, is till have that smile! Maybe, to build one bigger (a lot), so to be rejected by kids, but not to be wasted, maybe I could take a few circles around...

Regards,
Zoran​

 

1926 Morgan GN via G.L.

 

More Miss Ba cfire,this time from T.G. ...

 

the exhaust side of the engine shown in post #6520.

 

To Zoran and anybody else who has unfulfilled dreams....