Let's Talk Cyclecars

Great idea but it looks like some of those wrenches would be hard to get out of there. I have 2 screw drivers like those. Nicely made and the tips are still like new after all these years. Don't make them like they used to.

 

That dash is busier than a 747's.

 

Angouleme - I usually stand around that corner. Going there in September.

 

I'd pick my corner carefully until the guy in the green Moggy works on a better braking system.

 

I love the mismatched instruments and Public Works Department switchgear. Also the way working bits are neat but quite unhidden.

 

cyclecar,tim pic

 

He's just wiping some snot off of his gloves

 

Amilcar

 

You know...every once in a while we have this discussion of what is ,or is not a cyclecar. I can say with all certainty that this is NOT a cyclecar...

 

Fred, check out Yahoo Groups for Cycle Karts. They have over 600 members and are mostly US located.

 

A new view of a Twin City Cyclecar.


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Looks like a /2 BMW rear half tied to a VW front half. G.L. pic...

 

G.L. pic...

 

Montlhery...

 

Thanks, I joined that group too but activity there peaked in 2011. Not much happening now.

 

"PIGLET" and future drivers!

 

After signing up here some time ago I made a couple of posts and then the work in my shed took over and i didn't post again till now... The picture of the Messerschmitt a few days ago prompts me to post two pics, one of me as a toddler admiring my older brother's pedalcar built by my Dad, which my oldest brother had handed down now he had outgrown it. Called the Shelley Special, it was supposed to be a Bugatti lookalike but its kinda like a cyclekart as you have to screw your eyes up to get the resemblance.

A few years later, in the late 50s, my Dad owned a Heinkel Bubblecar (aka Cabin Cruiser) with a 175cc 4 stroke engine, and also borrowed a prototype Bond Minicar with a 125cc 2 stroke Villiers engine. The Heinkel we called 'Trixie', but the Bond rapidly earned the name 'Haywire' as it was totally unreliable for no apparent reason. The Heinkel we toured everywhere in, even as far as London and France (we lived in Edinburgh at the time) but the Bond was soon returned to its owner.

Marticelli

 

OK so now I've worked out how to post pics (but not thumbnails I hear you cry!!), I'll post some pictures of a remarkable early cyclecar (actually a monocar) I discovered in a museum in Belgium some years ago. As far as I know its the only survivor of a very small production circa 1908, and its got a de Dion 500cc single cylinder engine under the bonnet (hood?) and its called an AZA.... I know no more but I hope you'll agree its a fine thing.

Marticelli

 

Thank you Marticelli!

 

No trouble Bob, don't think I can compete with your prolific output!! Can post more if folk want, but perhaps someone will share with me how to post thumbnails as the form here seems to be not to post full images which you inflict on everyone... Tips?

Marticelli (for those who don't know me, aka Martin Shelley, VMCC OEC and Blackburne Marque Specialist and long time member VCC and VSCC)

 

Here I thought you were an Italian from Scotland! Please post all you can.Me,I only post thumbnails because I don't know how to post full size images.Hey,let's trade!

As far as my the number of my posts...I borrow from people all over the world,daily.I ask permission for stuff that is undoubtedly their images.Otherwise,I steal ,then post.

If you are involved with the VCC and Vscc,then we probably know a lot of the same people!

 

More is better.

 

I'm a member on there as well, under the same username. Some Amazing builds!! I'll half to drag some images over here to the HAMB from the cycle kart forum.

 

Here's John Bolster at Lewes in 1929. G.L. pic...

 

"Miss Bacfire" 1.9 litre V-twin BAC.. Ben Marchant pics...

 

Some progress on Anthony's Hendee/Wing.Anthony pics...

Wet sanding the body with 1000 grit to the original base coat. Getting the motor ready for a complete rebuild.

 

......but is this a cycle car???

 

I have always thought of it as one.Somebody else may hold a differing view.


While we're on the subject ..what about these?

 

... or this three wheeler built by an A. Graham to take his wife on their honeymoon in.

 

For nearly twenty five years I have had a plan to build an Eric Longden cyclecar which in my opinion is one of the nicest looking cyclecars of the early twenties. The business was located on a first floor level of a building in Shaftesbury Avenue right in theatreland in London, and Eric Longden himself was a retired Australian jockey who had had to give up riding through injury and took up his plan to build a small car when he was already working as a theatrical agent, hence his location in London. The finished cars had to be lowered to the street in a rather crude hoist which at least on one ocasion failed, wrecking the brand new car before its new owner could take possession!

Longden raced his own prototype successfully and went on to build a fair number before production was transferred to the company that made the Bleriot Whippet, the Air Navigation and Engineering Company, ANEC Ltd, which were situated in Addlestone, Surrey, quite near to Brooklands track.

There are some well known images of Longden in his car which was nicknamed 'Chunky Chunky', but the pictures I attach below are from the son of an owner of an E-L, Stuart Tresilian, who worked for ERA pre-war and then was with Rolls Royce and Bristol on aeroengine development. The pictures were taken during Tresilian's time at Cambridge University where he read engineering, in 1922-24.

Marticelli