Velocars and other interesting vehicles.
- Thread starter Intrepid Wheelwoman
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Not your average trike... meeting that down a dark alley might make me go the other way. A trike with serious intent.
SB
Ha, good one! If it were mine, that would be his name. A bulldog of a trike. "Let's go for a ride, Butch". That trike doesn't need a horn to get people out of the way. But as we know, Quasimodo had a good (Villiers) heart.
SB
...quite strange three-wheeler! I think that I saw somewhere such body, but everything else looks ot me non-original: front wheel is too small, engine is too high and gas-tank even more - with small windows: could driver see anything in front of him? I would keep it in garage with strong light, never come-in when it is in dark. Engine looks to me as old JAWA 175 cc - somebody copied somebody...
In this video you can see a unique artwork pedal car and a lot of unusual self builds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92AiqZ4aQzo
And a velocar project from AtomicZombie
http://forum.atomiczombie.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3161&c=9
Kai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92AiqZ4aQzo
And a velocar project from AtomicZombie
http://forum.atomiczombie.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3161&c=9
Kai
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What a cool little car. I want one. I'm gonna ask Santa Claus for one for Christmas. Carrying it into the bar seems a little extreme. Easier to buy a six pack and go for a drive.
SB
Hello,
Could this be our friend PLYCAR? Good film, magnificent vehilce - now, my wife wants something like that instead of my simple HPV-quadricycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHYywUkoPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kuHT2AEdM
Could this be our friend PLYCAR? Good film, magnificent vehilce - now, my wife wants something like that instead of my simple HPV-quadricycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHYywUkoPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kuHT2AEdM
Hello BAW,
Thank you on wonderful video abut that cute automobile! Small but almost real... Looks to me as some cars from cartoons!
Me too! Me too! It was a pretty cool little thing. Of course, it would be just like me to put a higher-horsepower Morini 50cc in the thing. Get a bit more spritely performance and reliability/longevity. But outside of that, I would not change a thing. Wish I knew what kind of car that was.
[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Hello Annie,
Wonderful old video (I like them original, black & white) - and interesting velocar. I saw before a pair of photos, but here we can see all details of construction - chassis especially. I like tandem seating, even too crumpled - and fixing of wheel's axle on both sides - bicycle's style. I am wonder are that ordinary bicycle’s wheels? [/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Problem should be step-in and step-out for two of us pensioners...
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS, cursive]Interesting test of driving it on three wheels! Could be inspiration for "sociable"?
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Fun with homemade velocars 
Why should the young have all the fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKHP66MiX_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4d338rIs2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUxqP8xSIM
Why should the young have all the fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKHP66MiX_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4d338rIs2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUxqP8xSIM
Hello Annie,
You are quite right about fun. It seems to me that from the same things and happenigs I had more fun now than before...
Here is one fellow (senior) that like to visit classic car race Mille Miglia - driving his own red car, cute velocar. On the first photo construction couldn't be seen well... But on the second it looks as nice quadricycle, but something is strange: it has 5 wheels? It is operated as three-wheeler...
Just to stay in red-color style, attached is one tandem, maybe gravity racer - not HPV?
You are quite right about fun. It seems to me that from the same things and happenigs I had more fun now than before...
Here is one fellow (senior) that like to visit classic car race Mille Miglia - driving his own red car, cute velocar. On the first photo construction couldn't be seen well... But on the second it looks as nice quadricycle, but something is strange: it has 5 wheels? It is operated as three-wheeler...
Just to stay in red-color style, attached is one tandem, maybe gravity racer - not HPV?
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My brother sent me this picture with little information other than it is from 1931 and was capable of 93 mph. Wow, some unicycle!
SB
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Hello SB,
Quite interesting "monowheel", only speed looks to me too optimistic? ...and, there is always quastion of motive: why should somebody build something like that - quite impracitcal, when with the same money and less pain could build decent motorcycle? However, more than a cenutry people like to "invent" such vehilces. I must say that I prefer everything that build you and Steve, or many builders present here!
Quite interesting "monowheel", only speed looks to me too optimistic? ...and, there is always quastion of motive: why should somebody build something like that - quite impracitcal, when with the same money and less pain could build decent motorcycle? However, more than a cenutry people like to "invent" such vehilces. I must say that I prefer everything that build you and Steve, or many builders present here!
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Yah, a little strange. That one with a soldier in it is bizarre. What happens when it tips over? Can't get my head around how these things work. If I made one it would end up like a kid inside a tire making himself dizzy and then sick as a dog. I'll pass...
SB
SB