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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]From early days of my interest in old automobiles, I found a few [FONT=Arial, sans-serif] [/FONT]pictures with Mercer Raceabout and Stutz Bearcat - and felt in love with such concept! Of course, didn't know that most of successful American factories produced such variants on their touring models, around and after 1910... Most confusing was calling them speedsters, or runabouts, or raceabout, or roadsters or whatever (never knew origins and purpose of such names – until Wikipedia helped)... I made a lot of sketches, trying to scale-down them, good for motorcycle engine and two teenagers! Didn't know that people did that before me, even making them smaller – just for bigger kids. As in[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][/FONT] many such cases, I thought that I must be only lunatic and didn't talk about that to family or friends...[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]As I told before (on other places?), I wouldn't try to make exact replica of any model, just my interpretation of beloved automobiles (in any category of my interests). So, If wooden chassis is preferred (and it is), I would make any of shown models in that way – no mater on original.
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Of course, that should be 3[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]rd[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif] or 4[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]th[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif] of possibly built projects...The first one is this HPV-quadricycle with additional “[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]electrification[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]”; the second one: classic-style velocar with engine – road-legal; the third-fourth could be any small road-legal “[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]automobile”[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif], in any shape that I want... The first two could be possible![/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Rust on quadricycle is just ugly, no problems for construction – simply bad quality of Chinese work (I suppose). Declaration on bicycles was “[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]designed, assembled and serviced in Switzerland[/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]”, without note where they are built). Rust could be polished: need more work than money![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Ciao,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Zoran
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]P.S.: On attached photos is Stutz Bearcat - [FONT=Arial, sans-serif] [/FONT]kid-car, but cute![/FONT][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Zoran
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