Let's Talk Cyclecars

BTW, busiest week in Angouleme isn't the racing, it's the comic convention


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Members of the Maori Battalion in Italy during WW2

 

thanks for the reply!

 

From justacarguy
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/09/look-at-this-barn-collection-above.html

 

Designed by Gerry Anderson, perhaps?


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Mike Mercury and Supercar

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From Fred Korthals

 

My photographer friend asked if he could take some environment shots of my garage, so naturally I had to reorganize and tidy up a bit motivating me to pull the Airhead Roadster out of the corner and into a spot where I can get to all sides of it. Now I’m finally ready to move forward with fabricating the body. A few weeks back I went to look at a home built experimental plane that had crashed into a tree decades ago and was salvaged by the seller. My thought was that I might be able to use the fuselage for my body since it was close in proportions and similar to the shape my chassis is asking for, but unfortunately it was made of very thin aluminum and was a little too narrow. It sure was cool though, and the story would have been great. In the end I decided to build from scratch, and seeing the planes construction in person helped to solidify my build method. I was originally going to create the substructure out of bent tubing since I have a roll bender, but have now decided to build using the more traditional method of bulkheads made from flat sheet similar to aircraft and boat construction. I feel this will better fit the style and period of the hand riveted chassis and will allow me to remove material later to lighten things up. I don’t have a proper welder or the skills to weld thin sheet aluminum, so most of the body will be riveted (I do have a pneumatic riveter) and I plan to attemp to braze panels together in complicated areas like the forming of the boat tail section, etc.. In a few weeks I’ll be making a trip to CA where I have a 1967 Yamaha YR1 350 Gran Prix in storage that I’ll be shipping over. My plan is to purchase a HF English wheel and a few other metal working tools, load them onto the skid and ship them over with the motorcycle so I can start shaping some metal this winter.

 

Since it is an air cooled engine have a look at some GN cyclecars. They did some amazing body work in the '20's with no compound curves on many makes of cars.

 

Airhead, I for one would love to see regular updates of your progress.

Please tell me that's a kit Speedster not OG so I can fight back some of the jealousy.

 

Built with parts from an Italian truck frame, engine from a German motorcycle, wheels from an English bomb trailer, gas tank from a B-24 Liberator and the throttle from a German bomber by members of the 376th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force in Libya.

 

like they had a lot of spare time on their hands....

 

much larger than a cyclecar.....just imagine it's a little smaller.

 

https://www.facebook.com/1490870518...de-son-ami-jean-marie-guiva/1821255354610503/

 

https://hiveminer.com/Tags/coches,cyclecar/Timeline

 

Very cool

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From Ivan Dutton...

 

I cant wait for Part 2!

 

Wonderful video. i watched them all.

 

Great video. Thanks for sharing, Bob

 

Hey Fred, is that your old Moggie in new paint in your avatar?

 

Yes it is, indeed. The paint job was horrible so I spent the summer re-doing it.

 

I thought it looked sparkling in the avatar. Beautiful results.

 

...anybody has an idea what this trio could be?
Looks to me as original rat-rods from old age...

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

Thunderbug does well in the first half. Nothing in the world like watching a GN (or FN) turning a curve into a multitude of straight lines (except driving one perhaps).

What is the US equivalent of the S F Edge trophy ?

 

Good question - I wondered that myself when it was first posted. Interesting front suspension - aircooled french? Groovy regardless.

 

They look more like barn-finds than RR to me. The one on the right looks like a Sizaire-Naiudin, possibly the middle car as well, albeit heavily modified. No guesses on the other one.

 

Hello,​

All three look to me as barn-finds, too - but probably heavily modified in their youth!

Probably that all three belonged to the same "stable" - kept together form old times, maybe changing owners from time to time - as a complete.
Question is are they in good running condition at all? The left one is quite different, looking almost normal with a rude modified body.
One at the middle and one at the right had the same suspension, but the diferent bodies - maybe modified too.
Looking through their grills - it seems that there is not an engine inside, but could be single cylinder from the era of "Voiturette" racing days - maybe Sizaire-Naudin? However, suspension looks similar but not the same as S-N had - maybe modified...
Edwardian racing cars transformed into vintage specials from whatever reason?

Ciao,
Zoran​