Let's Talk Cyclecars

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State Library of New South Wales; their caption: 'Olympia Motor Speedway, late 1925: left to right: probably Austin 7, Amilcar, Cleveland Six; Jewett; and Vauxhall 1914 "Fifty Bob" (still running in 2003)'

 

Many thanks. I’ve scoured the interweebs for years now for more pics of his GN JAP. Never seen these before. Some of the very best.

 

Lol! I just recently watched that vid.

 

I really love that video; old school as it gets.

 

'Small English Clino sedan in Smash' - photo by Sam Hood 1872-1953; State Library of New South Wales

 

'Even Baby follows Lang' - photo by Sam Hood 1872-1953; State Library of New South Wales

 

'New MG, Showground' - photo by Sam Hood [1872-1953] - State Library of New South Wales (many years ago I found some similar MG body parts dumped in the bush: front bulkhead, running board, bodywork behind the seat etc; I don't think there was a chassis; I swapped it far too 'cheaply' for some other stuff)

 

1935 Monaco Trossi Aero-engined Grand Prix Car
Built by Augusto Monaco and Carlo Felice Trossi, the 1935 Monaco Trossi is a front engined model, designed to race in Grand Prix.
However, due to terrifying driving dynamics, it never did.
It has a 16 cyl. 2 stroke (3982cc) radial air-cooled engine that powers the front wheels.
Each of the 8 "blocks" has 2 cylinders with common combustion chambers.
The intake is at the rear with 2 Zoller Superchargers and the exhaust to the front into a 4 pipe collector, leading to each side of the car.
It is rated 250hp at 6000 rpm.

 

I have 2 favorite radial vehicles. The Pobjoy Morgan and the Peugeot radial bike.

 

I also found this in my files.

 

Then there is this Indian powered car....
1931 Shotwell - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube

 

Fred,
Can you share more about the Peugeot bike? That miniature radial engine is fantastic!!!

 

No kidding. What displacement is that? Pistons must be "quarter" size!

 

There are some specs in the comments below the video.
Peugeot Radial engine... - YouTube

 

That's all I have except for this other pic.

 

I have just seen the coolest thing ever . Thanks Fred

 

A radial has an incredible sound all it's own. Would love to hear this one run. I have seen and heard smaller ones that fit in the palm of your hand at Cabin Fever.

 

noboD, https://www.google.com/search?q=peu...j0i22i30l2.15810j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Killer, thanks.

 

Your welcome.

 

Go up 3 posts to the one Bob made. It has a youtube of this bike running.

 

I've watched a couple of videos of it and it doesn't want to idle very much. It looks like it has some kind of gear box below the engine.

 

That looks like a pre war Peugeot 100CC "motorcycle". The frame is basically a bicycle frame : notice the pedals and the 2 chains on each side of the frame, the one on the right side is connected to the pedals to help the engine while going uphill or when you run out of gas. They were equiped with some kind of cable operated gearbox with the lever on the handlebar just like a bicycle I suppose.
To me it looks like the arrangement on this bike is as follow : they removed the cylinder head, piston and rod, kept the crank that is now just a connecting mean via a chain and a custom sprocket between the radial engine and the gearbox.
But to me they used a different donor engine for the lever gearbox, because to the best of my knoledge, the 100cc didn't have a gear box.
That's how I would do it to keep the build as simple as possible.

 

There are drawings and castings out there for building a model radial engine that would be suitable to use like this.

 

Big block swap ?





Mike

 

A couple of hours ago ... I was doing some shopping and an Austin club was having a drive nearby.

 

The gentleman, George Luhr, that built these died about 10 years ago. That's a quarter laying on the table, penny in the case. He sold these for around $10,000. He did not believe in CNC equipment and cut ALL threads on a lathe. They were guaranteed to run on gasoline.