Let's Talk Cyclecars

Lombard special with V auxhall engine,1947 via Marc ...

 

H ere's some more from Cameron Engineering (http://www.cameronracingengines.com/ ).

 

C ameron Engineering manufacturing new J.A.P. KTOR engines and parts....

http://www.cameronracingengines.com/

 

Super Street said it has a 150hp 1989 1200cc FJ1200 Yamaha motorcycle motor.

 

messerschmitt with a hemi ...

 

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Bob,​

Could such vehilce be the answer on Dave's dilemma that started this wonderful Forum 8 years ago ( Bigcheese327, Dec 5, 2007 ) and 7530 postings:

"Driving home from school today, listening to NPR, I hear talk about the SmartCar coming to the U.S. in January. Which gets me to thinking about small cars. Which gets me to thinking about the Fiat 500 I see in the parking lot every now and then and how I fantasize about putting a Hayabusa engine in one. Which further leads to me thinking about motorcycle engines in four-wheeled contraptions in general."​

The most important and beloved cycle-cars in history had the most powerful motorcycle's engines from that period - that now could means 120-180 HP!
For me, something classic around 500 cc, as: BMW boxer, or Moto-Guzzi single, or some English single or twin, or … with power less then 40 Hp should be enough!

Zoran​

 

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Hello Ned,​

Quite interesting idea about titling three-wheeler, the same as many ideas in your blog!
As you are excellent in drawing sketches of experimental automobiles, do you have some of that now described?
If I am not wrong, some time ago you published here wonderful sketch of tilting Bedellia?
Jaguar XK inline-six engine is one of the most beautiful and probably the most practical for European builders of DIY automobiles... In Serbia, more practical and still beautiful would be older 280 MB twin-OHC inline- six, and even older OPEL Commodore single—OHC inline-six (for modest projects)...

Zoran​

 

Basil Davenport at Shelsley Walsh in 1928 ...

 

Hemi ME! Gads... I bet the motor weighs more than the entire car! Gary

 

..and, now something quite different!
(paraphrase from “Monty Python's Flying Circus")
Gigantic automobiles: had chain transmission (some of them), rudimentary body, crazy look – but far away from cycle-cars!

Zoran​

 

... and, a few who knows what: overgrown cyclecars from pioneer era of motorisation in rural America?
Zoran

 

correction: phrase was "Monty Python's - And Now For Something Completely Different"

 

BSA

 

Amilcar C6 owned by luc ...

 

ALTA

 

She's probably thinking "bloody well beats the hell out of a walker".

 

...or will someone help me get in ,please....

 

From Marc ...

 

This might make a great engine for a cyclecar..

http://gtspeed.us/2014/07/23/starting-up-an-homemade-radial-engine-from-old-vw-parts/

 

From D.T. ...

 

1920 Temperio 8/10 roadster... images from www.pbase.com

 

Austin Seven chassis,Raleigh Seven Sturmey Archer engine and transmission. Built by T.C. ...

 

via D.T. ...

 

Looks like Porsche wheels?