Let's Talk Cyclecars

I really like the Type 40.

 

Hello, there!
Could that be PANHARD sport/racing special, with two-cylinder-boxer engine?
Ciao, Zoran

 

Pretty sure that’s a BMW-based Nardi-Danese. Really neat either way.

 

It's a 1951 Nardi Danese with BMW 750 power

 

Thank you, both!
I had somewhere photos of Nardi-BMW, bur forgot on it and lost photos in many folders that I made trough a couple of decades...
Beautiful torpedo racer in Italian style, with excellent construction of chassis and suspension!
Regards, Zoran

 

That is really nice.

 

Just came across this on FB.

 

When I googled 1936 Austin 7, found this thing. Pretty cool.

https://ferraris-online.com/cars/1936-austin-7-supercharged-special-mk3/

 

That Bantam body is way too wide for the Austin chassis.

 

I was wondering about that.

 

I think they were built on Austin 7 chassis'. My Ruby's frame rails end, more or less, under the middle of the front seats. The body is on outriggers. You can kind of see in this cutaway

Under the skin, the biggest difference between 7's and Bantams (or American Austins) is the block is a mirror image so that the intake/exhaust is on our passenger side. That's pretty cool. I think there are some V8's out there made from one of each on a custom crankcase. Mike

 

Thank you Ziggster!​

It looks interesting compared to some other failed projects put on sale.
But, beside being quite non-Bantam, it is ugly (issue of taste and reams?) and planed to be installed to something else:

Maybe not to this shown chassis, but used for something third?
Only worth there is Austin-7 chassis in good condition (but, with too wide tyres)? Good base to try some other project! Good price, too...
I like Austin-7 specials, especially DIY projects, the same as a little more "modern" Topolino based...

Ciao, Zoran​

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It is a late Austin Seven chassis, the wider wheels on the rear of the car are the 16" wheels fitted to most of the 'export' Longbridge built cars. That LHD steering box that is in one of the photos is interesting. Possibly from a Rosengart or BMW version of the A7 that were built under licence in France and Germany. AFAIK, all of the US built cars were 75" wheelbase; all the Longbridge built cars had 81" wheelbase from 1932 onwards

 

I wonder if the plastic Bantam body was made wider for use on dragsters!!
You could also get rid of the wire wheels and go with offset rims to get the tires out where they need to be. I just saw, on My Classic Car, a Fiat Topolino hot rod with a CSB 350 blown engine. Really nice build.

 

1922 GN Vitesse T.B. pic.

 

What would it be like to drive in the rain in that car? Won't the water just come right up and over the windscreeen?

 

Unusual driving position . . . presumably to see over the nose cowl . . .

 

OTAV Cyclecar by Stefan Marjoram

This O.T.A.V. started life as a much larger car but was later converted to a 'sporty' cycle car. It's still in the early stages of being rebuilt but looks great already.

 

LOL. Love that car but it has to be the oiliest rag of all the oily rag cars!!

 

I suppose it beat walking , riding a motorcycle ,bicycle or horse in the rain. I noticed how people dressed in the early days of motoring. My grandmother told me her mother mentioned how fortunate my grandmother was ...because my grandfather had a closed car when they were courting. A Model A Ford coupe .I think we loose sight at how close folks lived to nature...even in urban areas.

 

I guess you are right about that. Early Morgan 3 wheelers had no hood at all.

 

Mallory Park VSCC meeting, 31.08.24

 

Love the OHC's.

 

No details given from an event in the 1970's

 

I guess that is a GN chassis special. I have a copy of John Bolster's book "Specials". It's a great read.

 

I have that book as well.

 

https://www.prewarcar.com/602459-brescia-crankshaft
I've never seen one of these before and I've never seen a 4 banger with throws like this either. So what would be the firing order for this crank? It could be 1234 but I doubt it.