Let's Talk Cyclecars

Not so easy today but today IS much easier to do a restoration than it was 40 years ago.

 

Salmson recently discovered in France. No mention of the car in the left of the photo. Pics from PWC.

 

They may not be ready to sell the other car.

 

I ran into this video on youtube by accident. It's all in German, but the action speaks for itself.

 

Use the subtitles...

 

Beautiful work. My guess is that he doesn't use that for racing. It would be too heavy with all the added stuff.

 

I guess everyone has seen the extensive build blog of the Jappic. I think 2 of them have been built.

 

One in UK and another in NZ

 

The UK one is by @UKAde (Adrian Ward) on here.

 

If you haven't seen his photo page you are in for a treat. At the top left you can go back and see all his other albums.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55288722@N00/albums/72157631051648930/

 

That other car is a Citroën B2 or B10, both cars have license plates from April 1954.

 

That is some crazy workmanship. How come no pics of it finished?

 

I believe it is finished and I've seen videos of it running.

 

very nice 1913 Wisconsin DEALER license plate. The number were riveted on.

 

That thing has to sound amazing.

 

Appears steering is a spool and rope affair.

 

Just did a Google search and almost nothing about this beautiful build. All I found was a HAMB post from 2017 (by you - Lol!) , and the same pic of the engine on FB. I wonder if he was inspired by Mark Walker’s GN Thunderbug?
I’m just amazed as a mech Eng by folks that decide to “just build an engine”. To me even with a manufacturing background, it would seem too daunting of a task to even contemplate.

 

Cable and bobbin steering was quite common on the lighter cyclecars.

 

Brendan Dillon's creation is a monster, I've seen it run at a local historic race meet, a very interesting fella.

That Salmson is in beautiful condition!

 

Could be inspired by Mark's work. You know sometimes the sane things can be accomplished worlds apart for one another without any contact. Before i saw either I thought about grabbing a couple cylinder assemblies from the many Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wasp engines around her and doing the same thing. I do have access to he equipment but not the time. Each Wasp cylinder is about 156 cu. in...and 2 would give you a 310.I even thought about making a four cylinder BMW boxer engine using 4 cylinder assemblies from 900 cc engines.

 

Duddley Bug

 

The Dudly is nice, but I don't believe it is the car in the b&w photo. Besides the front transverse leaf mounting/kingpin and rad cowl differences, the caption with the photo I posted is as follows:
"A True Cycle car with Solar lamps manufactured by the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company. From the Albert J. Tanck Collection. 1913."
I have, however, been unable to find any further information about "True Cycle" . . .

 

I know of a number of examples over time, where idea's are formed in different parts of the world at a similar time without any connection. It's quite fascinating

 

1922 GN/Frazer Nash Special