Let's Talk Cyclecars

J.A. Mansfield and his Busy Bee.

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/previous-features/a-busy-bee-for-your-bonnet-021735.html

 

Did somebody say micro cars?

http://retrorambling.wordpress.com/tag/micro-cars/page/2/

 

Sarge,those Steyrs looked cool.

 

They have nice lines. It's pretty cool that we can search and find this stuff so easily.

 

Osenat Auction offering for November.

http://www.lva-auto.fr/petites-annonces.detail.php?id=100655

 

Lombard - BNC

 

More BNC

http://tricyclecaristes.forumr.net/t79p255-bnc-cyclecar

 

Cyclecar plans from 'Tout Le Systeme D' magazine April 1952.

La Voiturette Deux Places.

 

8H.P. Enfield at 1913 Lancashire hill climb. I.B. image

 

2 BNCs that started life with Lombard engines but now have Salmson replacement engines in them. Marc images.

 

I love this photo Bob, it completely captures the spirit of vintage hillclimbing. It must've been a cold day though judging by the way those two chaps are bundled up.

 

Glad you found this site!! I have been following your build on SCoA and Reverse Trikes.

 

2 chaps? I thought it looked like 3 blokes! Cold? I've Been out in -71 F.To me that looks like shirt sleeve weather. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif

 

This is one heck of a thread. Thanks for it. I'm a newbie (posted a boring into in the intro section) For my own reasons I'm mulling over a cyclecar project. Every time I Google cyclecar, this thread comes up so many times it's unreal. This is the place to be for cyclecaristes.

 

I don't know if anyone has posted the link to these pictures before. They appear to be from the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Cyclecar Grand Prix at Amiens. There are some interesting vehicles there. Is that bright yellow vehicle really a Morgan? http://rendezvousdelareine.forumgratuit.org/t985-cyclecar-motocyclettes-amiens-1913

 

I think that most of us here on this thread have an interest in a vehicle that is:
#1 home built
#2 inexpensive to construct
#3 simple to build without a lot of complex tools or difficult to obtain parts
#4 economical to operate

Do you think this would fill the bill?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202398570185966&set=vb.156406224422948&type=2&theater

 

Here is a Grofri,an Amilcar built under license in Austria. M.H. image.

 

Here is the rear view of a car with a Cirrus aircraft engine in it. I'd like to see it run at night! M.H. image.

 

new Jappic pics,,, I have just had a visit from a guy who about 20 years ago bought a kit of parts to build himself a Jappic , the project stalled but he has a huge folder of research and many pictures and clippingS I hadn't seen ,, he has scanned some in for me and will scan the rest soon ,,


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7374/10610404106_a73e6bbc13_b.jpg

 

Looking around the web for cyclecar images to inspire me I found this website someone put together in preparation for selling their Woods Mobilette
http://woodsmobilette.com/Index.asp
Though the mobilette doesn't inspire me as much as this next one...
Here's an image of a Menley cycle car from 1920.
http://thepotteries.org/did_you/015.htm

 

Amilcar for sale...

http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/561433273.htm?ca=2_s

 

Rally ABC for sale...

http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/560758368.htm?ca=1_s

 

Oh my. That is gorgeous. It really is.

 

It is gorgeous,and so is the price! Amazing the money these cars bring.

 

Chain drive

 

And the license plate gets sewed to the seat of your pants--

Herb

 

http://youtu.be/sY4lLWr6ZE4
I just found this video on YouTube. It says it's a Swisscyclo cycle car. I can find nothing on the Internet about Swisscyclo. Usually an internet search of a cyclecar name comes up with a link on this thread, but not this one. It's a rather nice looking machine without a doubt.


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From the Museo De Autos Y Del Transporte de Monterrey A.C.

 

It seems to be 2CV-based. That precludes a build date before 1948, and suggests a nostalgic intent behind many of the details.

 

Absolutely 2CV based. Looks like an adapted Pembleton (see below for link)- the engine mounting system is unique (hung from the gearbox mounts) to Pembleton. So probably built in the last ten years or so.

The "friction shocks" are nothing more than a cover for the steering rack tube. They can't possibly be functional as the suspension arm pivots on the steering rack tube.

A nicely done car though.

http://www.pembleton.co.uk/