Let's Talk Cyclecars

Just a matter of modifying the sump to collect oil.It had to have pressurized lubrication.If not there are plenty of engines that have had their cranks pressurized.Model A Ford engines come readily to mind.Funk,Peitnpaul(sp),etc... pictures from The experimental Aircraft Museum in Oshkosh.

 

Why does this look like a wheel is missing??!!
LOL, Fred V

 

Hale Morgan about 1952.1100cc J.A.P.. Ewan pic

 

J.J. pic

 

For all my freezing friends...

 

Senechal , Marc pic

 

I'm thinking that as the Boomer generation ages and we begin to deal with the reality of worn out knees, there might be some of us that would like to go for a putt in a motorcycle that we don't have to hold up or lift back up after we've dropped it. This is the main reason for my project.

 

Raayberg Marc pic

 

1924/26 Salome Shelsley Special Morgan /GN

 

An LAT image

 

VSCC image

 

Morgan. G.L. image

 

Hardy Special. G.L. image

 

Bedelia at full throttle competing in the Montanglaust hillclimb of 1912.

 

New desk top!

 

car fiends.... looks like a page out of Dr. Suess's "Go Dog Go"!

 

Spec sheet for the Pridemore Cyclecar of Northfield MN. The Pridemore first appeared in literature in February 1914. I can't actually tell if any were ever made or sold as there is no more record of it after April of the same year.


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GN "Thunderbug" at Cadwell Park. Simon pic

 

Morgan at 2012 Banbury Vintage Motorcycle Run. Simon pic

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBLf5iGEbc
Really great video of Frazer/Nash racing. Amazingly good audio for once. Watch how squirrely these car are; that front wheel is is constantly working.

 

They seem to have zero caster.

 

Prescott 2013 . G.L. image

 

F-N G.L. pic

 

Pierre Viossat in his 746cc Mathis at the 1934 Klausenrennen.

 

We have seen this radial engine beauty before in 2 of these images.Today we'll add a third.

 

Morgans

 

Yeah, and speaking of that, why did all those cars have so much positive camber? What was their philosophy for that?

 

Twin City Cyclecar, constructed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1914. I'm currently toying with the idea of attempting some kind of recreation of this.


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Here's some pictures and stuff from Bedelia enthusiast Marc from France.

 

Cool! Very interesting body. Do you have a rear view? (The caption is wrong.) Is it just my eye, or is the side view significantly lower than the front? I vote for the lower setup.