Let's Talk Cyclecars

1938 by Henri Barousse via Marc...

 

strange little car....

 

Gorgeous! - seems a shame to hide marchals behind that grill though.

 

DePoyer

 

Saxon with some woman suffragettes in about 1916.

 

When I saw this I thought it was a Frisky Family Three offshoot. Turns out its a NAMI A50 Belka (Russian for squirrel). "[The] idea of the car was originally characterized as a "formula 5x5" - 5 seats, 500kg dry weight, controlling fuel 5l / 100km, engine displacement of 500 cc and a power reserve of 500 km."
It was developed as a prototype for a family of small cars, but 'the powers that be' favored the ZAZ-965, so only a handful of prototypes were built. It got it's name from, Irbit, the town in the Urals where it was designed. Irbit had been a trading center for squirrel fur.

The agricultural version prototype.



The proposed family of vehicles.

 

Thanks SR100 !

 

Here's the 1924/6 Morgan/GN "Salome" (1120 cc V2 ) at Curborough & LP 2015.Images by GCL...

 

Sort of related, but back in high school metal shop someone built a go-cart and powered it with the drivetrain from a Honda motorcycle. When he finished it and needed to bring it home, he just fired it up and drove it. Must've been quite a sight to see a go-cart whizzing through town and down the road...

 

More from the lens of GCL... The GN "Thunderbug"

 

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Hello,
I supposed that something is wrong with this drawing of strange auto, including stupid name and sense-less text... There is solution from Internet:

"McCall’s 1982 book, Zany Afternoons, presents a collection of brief articles about an imaginary society from the 1920s to the 1950s, often populated by uber-wealthy and spoiled sophisticates who enjoyed such diversions as autogiro jousts, wing dining, zeppelin shoots, and tank polo"​

A few drawings of similar creation are attached! Quite a man with great imagination...
Ciao,
Zoran

 

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/p...o-winner-1924-25-rhemag-1-litre-024608-2.html

 

The 1953 efforts of Hungarian Imre Vogl .

 

Grofri..Amilcar built under license in Austria via Marc.

 

... very brave p***enger (mechanic?) at the front seat!
Daradevil racers for dardevil machines (modified De Dion-Bouton Qaudricycle)!

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

Original 1937 Morgan Super Sports . Images from Gasballoon.

 

GN photo by Andy C.

 

Austro Cyclecar via T.K.B.
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=aaz&datum=19130601&seite=27&zoom=33

 

These from Motor Journal out of the Czech Republic. An event using interesting mobiles to share a day with some disabled kids.I say mobiles because there were military vehicles,motorcycles,and a variety of other machinery there....as well as some very special riders.

 

A nother image via Motor Journal from a different gathering.

 

Salmson via the Veteran Car Club Pra ha (Prague,CZ)

 

A de's JAPPIC recreation at Kop Hill .Ade image.

 

Some cyclecars at Circuit Des Remparts d'Angouleme....

 

Cyclecar in OZ from J-P C.

 

Hello,
What that could be?
Interesting special: fully independent suspension - and, it looks ot me as four-wheel drive? ... or at least, front-wheel drive?
Zoran

 

For sale right now on Le Bon Coin:
1938 Barousse apparently 1 of 1 with a 350 Jap engine.

 

It's a BSA-Indian special. It has an Indian motorcycle engine and a BSA front-drive drivetrain. The rear axle looks like an Austin 7 with a transverse spring, but it isn't clear whether (or how) it is connected to the engine.