Let's Talk Cyclecars

Kit built with Moto Guzzi engine

 

First turn at any speed = Ker Plop

Herb

 

Rick Scaldwell's V-8 J.A.P. GN,artwork by Stefan Marjoram! ...

 

Littles

 

I saw this the other day while surfin' das Net. Only a few left!
https://industriamechanika.com/shop/land/26-her-majesty-s-estafette-.html

 

Any information on this one? The components look modern, despite a bit of Neanderishness about some of the details.

 

That is a Triking brand; available as a kit or completed car.

 

Just the picture...

 

Pretty cool how this car has taken on a secondary life! Here is another spin - off by artist E ric Black.It even made it into one of the car magazines.

 

1930 Morgan
Silver Arrow ( painted red) from marc ...

 

I know that car! That, and if you look closely in the background, the green '34 were both racing at the Monterey Historics, last year. The green didn't make it this year.

 

Well Conor,do you have any images to share with us?

 

Don't see them with their tops up very often...

 

Learning young ...

 

I actually have started the restoration of the '35 F4. The only indoor place I have to work on it is my 9'x12' shed.Yes, it will need to come apart to come out!

 

In typical British fashion...although I assume you're an Irishman!

 

An Irishman raised on British cars. Here are the three Morgans at the Historics in 2014

 

Thank you Conor!

 

You're welcome. And thank you for keeping my inspiration going. This tread is the first I check! My goal is to have my Morgan on the road by June. And here's a mock up picture (with a sneaky peek of what else I drive

 

From Marc ...

 

An autumn drive ...

 

From MrScharroo's Weird Car Museum Flicker page:
"Duofront 1955
The builder of this vehicle is Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Trautwein, from Meersburg, West Germany. This was his first Duofront, based on a Norton motorcycle, built in 1955. He built several types of Duofront.
The motivation of this pioneer was the gain in safety. “Motorcycles are wonderful, but dangerous. You need more traction. Better give them three or four wheels for more stability in the road curves“.
Black and white photo was found on www.autopuzzles.com and is colorized."
The cutouts in the bodywork appear to allow a folding front suspension, but I can't see what advantage that would give.

 

Perhaps the cutouts allowed the car to lean in the corners?

 

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Dodge,​

You must be right! Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Trautwein with his 3-wheeler appeared on a few web-sites for tilting vehicles and there are some newer photos with him on such tilting tricycles... (for me original black-&-white photos are better than colored). Russian we-site:
http://carakoom.com/blog/7119

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

Trautwein seems obsessed with maintaining track width absolutely during lean. Hence the ugly negative-offset front wheels on most of the trikes. I'm wondering if a tiny bit of track loss might not be unproblematic. My own investigations into this suggest something in the order of 3% at 45° of lean, using conventional T-bucket-style front wheels and available spindles. It would certainly make for a simpler arrangement.

My investigations are about a perennial daydream of mine, a T-bucket from the firewall forwards attached to a traditional '60s longbike from the headstock back, which of late has become a Tilting Three-Wheeler. I'm thinking that a Jaguar XK six and foot-operated manualized BW65 might be appropriate.

 

From artist Stefan Marjoram ...