Let's Talk Cyclecars

This is the PEBL.

 

I get an error when I try to view the attachment.

 

I knew that....

 

I just saw this on Craigslist today:

If I had $500 laying around I would want to buy this. Looks like a good starting point for something fun.

 

Post the link.

 

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/d/antique-mini-car-buggy-frame/6772174430.html

 

It almost looks like a late 40s British 500cc racer. Hard to tell without seeing the motor mounts (which might not have ever been completed.) Someone grab it.

 

1924 Mollmobil marc pic. ...

 

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Thank you SR for interestign advertisment!​

It could be made a cute and efficient special on that chassis, in a style of British Formula 500, or hill-sprint racer, or trial cars, or cyclecar or whatever!


Design and construction look quite good with many interesting details... All around independent suspension, nice big wire-spoked wheels, chain transmission and so on...

Ciao,
Zoran​

P.S.: If it is somewhere in Swiss, I would try to find 500 Swiss Franks (equal to the USA $$$ - my monthly Serbian pension income)

 

It might not be an open diff. A cheap method for locking the diff was to fill the spider gears with melted lead.
Does anyone recognize any of the components?

 

Just in... a FB post from Clarke Walker. The only clue mentioned is "Mont Ventoux". Now that's a copilot! Gary

 

And whats the driver looking at ?

 

Before or after the crash?

 

I always liked this photo.

 

There are plenty of them around in the US--just look for a Range Rover (or a V8 Discovery etc)

Roo

 

4 wheel Sandford

 

This is the link to the Hanomag pictures above sorry the article is written in german language https://www.zwischengas.com/de/FT/fahrzeugberichte/Hanomag-2-10-PS-Kommissbrot-.html

 

No apologies required for posting articles written in languages other than English. It's time we English speakers quit being so lazy and learn something new....besides most pages self translate anymore.

 

SWINCAR all-terrain vehicle elecric

 

Hello, Tarcoleo!​

That is the photo of the SWINCAR that I was waiting for a long time: two-seater version! That would be the only variant acceptable for me and my wife for cruising across and around Bern, in SWINCAR or any other light electric-powered quadricycle! For sure that for road-legal use it must have all the lights and other equipment, proper for necessary attest and registration. With 4 Kilowatts electric-motor (a Kilowatt in each of the wheels) it could be accepted to category similarly to a moped (light quadricycle) - single-seat model! For the two-seat model with 6 Kilowatts in total, it should be attested and registered as heavy quadricycle... (or detuned to 4 Kilowatts)
Of course, all this does not mean that I have money to buy one...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&v=jDNGGa3u-B8




https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=qDjsPN2QtQ8


Watching the first photos some years ago - I couldn't understand all the movements of those "spider legs", over uneven terrain and especially during turning of quadricycle in short radius... Only short films seen later gave me a solution: hard to imagine, even harder to design and almost impossible to make it properly for attractive and safe use. But, the creator Pascal RAMBAUD managed in all that!

Zoran​

 

I’ve been planning a 3 or 4 wheel electric hub motor powered car for some time now. Converted a few bikes and a trike, and now that “fat tire” bikes are popular manufactures are offering powerful hub motors laced to wide rims so you can run a decent tire with some side wall and an adequate contact patch. My design would be more for town/neighborhood use, something much like the Hanomags pictured above.

Here are two of my favorite designs I’ve come across. The first is very utilitarian with forward storage trunk, drop in windows, etc.. and similar to what I’d like to build, the second is 4-wheel hub motor powered with polycarbonate body and suspension of all things. Notice the clever use of fork hoops to suspend and support the wheels and axles, and the use of calipers and discs. Some of my serious mountain bike friends have pretty trick hydraulic disc brake setups on their bikes.

I have to finish my electric catamaran first, but it’s 600W of solar with MPPT control will serve as a charging station for the electric car once built. I just started laying out the panels as seen in the last photo.

 

Here are some more photos of traditional cycle cars to make up for me getting off topic with talk of solar boats!

 

Interesting looking car on the beach.European Cycle car or american iron?
From stiffspeed

 

American iron at its finest. The Wisconsin Special. 16ft long, 836 cu. in. ...

 

Thank you SR100,so the picture should be in the thread Aero engined vintage racers

 

Thank you SR100,so the picture should be in the thread Aero engined vintage racers

 

It looks good here too.