Velocars and other interesting vehicles.
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Ludwig, the magazine arrived in the post yesterday and I can assure you it's a homebuild design using plywood over a wooden frame. Similar drive arrangement to the Bond though, but with a trailing type front suspension and drive instead of the Bond's leading fork arrangement.The first picture looks like a German Goliath front wheel drive 2 stroke. Goliaths were made under licence in India until recently.
Some ideas for anybody interested: Bond Microcar, the text states only 85 made, but that will apply to this version. There were thousands made over the years.
Later model, D, I think.
Wiki info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Minicar
From my pics page:
Islok solo and trike page, Holland
http://mo-ped.se/brommers/islok.htm
Austrian HMW three wheelers, various purposes
http://mo-ped.se/mopoja/hmw58t2.htm
Finnish trikes and carrier moped
http://mo-ped.se/mopoja/invamopo.htm#15
German carrier trikes, solos and invalid trikes
http://mo-ped.se/werke/transport.htm
Cyclestar, Sweden, front brake and suspension assembly
Socotri with AubierDunne engine, France
Islok solo and trike page, Holland
http://mo-ped.se/brommers/islok.htm
Austrian HMW three wheelers, various purposes
http://mo-ped.se/mopoja/hmw58t2.htm
Finnish trikes and carrier moped
http://mo-ped.se/mopoja/invamopo.htm#15
German carrier trikes, solos and invalid trikes
http://mo-ped.se/werke/transport.htm
Cyclestar, Sweden, front brake and suspension assembly
Socotri with AubierDunne engine, France
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Here's one were building for a customer who recently lost his drivers license.
We call them rollin eggs (original design built by a man in maine, Jory Squibb)
We've done a few of these they are 49cc and go 30mph and get 90-100 mpg.
We will hook up the wiring and put the front wheels on it tommorrow then take this one for its maiden voyage
I'll post some pics when its finished
We call them rollin eggs (original design built by a man in maine, Jory Squibb)
We've done a few of these they are 49cc and go 30mph and get 90-100 mpg.
We will hook up the wiring and put the front wheels on it tommorrow then take this one for its maiden voyage
I'll post some pics when its finished
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That's a cool design. What was the original prototype called? - 'Moonbeam'? - something like that.
Rick,
That is a slick little rig! Did you do a build thread on it? How did the velocar for your cousin work out? Is he using it?
SB
That is a slick little rig! Did you do a build thread on it? How did the velocar for your cousin work out? Is he using it?
SB
Steve's is almost finished we've drove it quite a bit. Its apart getting prepped for paint.
I didnt do a build thread on this one. The original was called moonbeam.
They are pretty neat. We believe we've improved on the original designa little more room and weighs less. Good over all design.
Ill post more pics of it in a couple days.
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Barely, those kids had the coolest little velocar! The design grows on you after a bit. And you could tell the kids loved that thing. That was awesome.
The only problem is growing up so they no longer fit into it. As a kiddie I loved my pedalcars, - well actually they were my brother's pedalcars and I had to sneak a go with driving them when they weren't around if I didn't want to start a fight.
And my parents had this bad habit of passing on our toys that they thought we'd grown out of to the pointy headed three eyed childspawn of some relative or another. (Please forgive my regression to my 12 year old point of view)
Some years later when I was thirty something I pointed out to Mum that those pedalcars would be now worth a fortune if they'd been stored away in the shed instead of being given to her younger sister's Visigoth horde to be demolition derbyed to death.
And my parents had this bad habit of passing on our toys that they thought we'd grown out of to the pointy headed three eyed childspawn of some relative or another. (Please forgive my regression to my 12 year old point of view)
Some years later when I was thirty something I pointed out to Mum that those pedalcars would be now worth a fortune if they'd been stored away in the shed instead of being given to her younger sister's Visigoth horde to be demolition derbyed to death.