Let's Talk Cyclecars

Wow. What a photo!

 

Ed ! How are you? are you still making music?

 

G.L. image

 

2 liter Ballot. J-P W image

 

1932 Ariel Fleet van

 

#10 Cozette blower being fitted to an Hotchkiss AM2 engine by Patrice Coutant.

 

is that a cream can?

 

That's a great little delivery truck.

 

Yes,for transporting milk.

 

1917 Bateman with front wheel drive. LeRoi 4 cylinder .78 X 112 for 26H.P. ...

 

Morgan EV3 electric vehicle. Weighs 1000 pounds and has a 120 miles range.

 

Marc and his Lombard ...

 

Salmson on offer through www.PreWarCar.com

http://www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad190238.html

 

now that's a very interesting chassis - you could bolt a low slung body on that

 

Hello Rolf,
It seems to me that such mechanics must have more courage than drivers?
I think that on the first photo is M.A.S.E. cyclecar from France... For the second, I couldn't be sure...









... and, something quite different, but still crazy: French cyclecar Villard/Colombe, front-wheel-drive three-wheeler!

Ciao,
Zoran

 

P.S: The second car was PEUGEOT Quadrilette 750 cc, baby-car...
Z.

 

Paul Schoroh Racing 1948

 

The Story of "Bloody Mary"http://theamazoeffect.blogspot.ch/2012/03/race-car-of-day-john-bolsters-bloody.html

 

Didn't they stuff 4 engines into that car at one point or was that a different car?

 

I think that was a differnt car.

 

Hello,​

It could be "Bloody Mary" again, but totally modifed, including new metal chassis?


I am wondering where John was keeping his legs?
Confusion could be with facts that his brother Richard built a few of specials for himslef, especially one with 4 engines, too? Engines were different:

"Richard Bolsters four dirt track Rudge engines in a GN chassis. Shelsley Walsh 1938. The car was very quick, good enough for Richard to win his class at Shelsley. However after experiencing continued chain breakage on start up he dropped the idea and built a Hudson engined special."​

Bloody Mary was modified so much that from original used for "racing" over nearby fields in 1929 - nothing was left in period after Second World War. This one in Musum that is still used at hill-climobing - is X-reincarnation of original from school days of Bolster Brothers...

Ciao,
Zoran​

 

...another GN special with four motorcycle engines, maybe on the same crankcase and one crankshaft?


...and, finaly - good look ad Bloody Mary with four engines!

Zoran
P.S.: Rolf, you shouldn't need such extrawaganca and complication - you are in process of construction special with Curtiss V-8 aero-engine!

 

Bolster's 4-engined special (John's or Richard's construction?), named as "Bloody Mary" again...
Zoran

 

Bloody mary is a real hotrod,what a beutiful car,its allways exiting looking at it,
Something just "raw and brute" about it,
Low aswell, not many cars at that time were that low,
Would like to drive something like that,
My father has the book "specials" with bloody mary in it,
Ive been reading it since i was 8 years old, im 52 now,
My dad raced austin sevens in the "750" club,
Ill ask him for some photos of the austin,
Was a lovely alloy bodied car,

 

From Zoran's post... #8006.... this looks like the GN "PARKER".if it is the motor is a Ciruus MKIV aircraft engine of about 5 liters.