Let's Talk Cyclecars

Here is the same 1921 Darmont in 1981 with Colin smoking his pipe behind the wheel.Colin pic

 

banjeaux bob
I look forward to your daily contributions to this thread
Thanks for the link - I particularly liked the 'Baby'
Interesting front suspension described as "quirky feature is the single transverse leaf spring front suspension". I cant get my head around how that would be comfortable without an apposing coil spring.
Kume

 

WOAH!

That looks to be a sliding-pillar arrangement of sorts, where the transverse 'beam' is fixed, the spindles slide up and down with the king-pins and are sprung - on the bottom by the coils and on the top by the leaf?

I wonder if the coils' main function isn't basically as a progressive bumpstop, similar to the inner springs in the '30s Chevy Dubonnet pods I'm playing with.

 

Woah!

I didn't pick that up but yes it appears the beam is fixed and the spindles move up and down on the king pins. But I still cant see a comfortable ride on the upward no downward stroke.

An idiot abroad
kume

 

Yeah, it looks like in that picture the suspension is 'topped out' and there's no rebound travel left.

Maybe the car and springing are light enough that when you put people in the car it moves down to the middle of its travel. Or maybe the designer just didn't think quite that far ahead...it wouldn't have been the weirdest thing done back then.

 

1926 Amilcar Special.Supercharged 2 litre AC engine.Alvis transmission.Riley steering. On offer through www.PreWarCar.com

 

F-N Lightview image.

 

I've always wanted one of these.

 

Here are some more images of the Amilcar...

 

Marc loading up Chater Lea,Lombard ,and Sanford heading to Vintage Revival Montlhery.

 

The personification of my concept of just what a "cyclecar" should look like... What, no belt drive...?

 

That Amilcar sits real fine ,don't it Lung? Sounds like it is quite capable as well.

 

Vintage Revival Montlhery is going on this weekend...

Rob Gill images via VRM.

 

Vintage Revival Montlhery 2013.Louis Taurel image via VRM.

 

That black 1926 Amilcar is really a nice looking car.



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From Vintage Revival Montlhery.Michael Buller image.

 

Morgan and caravan.

 

^Too much. Where's the Grinch? Gary

 

Love the little oriel!

 

I was at Monthléry during the weekend and took some 200 pictures. (To have something to post from time to time!)

 

great!

 

We have seen Marc's 1927 Lombard with it's one of one brass headed engine.Now get a view of what it's like behind the wheel.This was taken at Vintage Revival Montlhery this past weekend.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aAypJHbikik&feature=youtu.be

 

Again another picture by Marc and one of my favorites...the four wheeled Sanford roadster.From VRM 2013.

 

Vintage Revival Montlhery 2013.Manuela Langlois pic via VRM.

 

Neat video. Love those cars. Definitely uses most of the road to corner. Probably my imagination but either camera guy was bouncing more at the end of the race or the rear shocks had become softer.

 

Vrm 2013

 

The Flying Archie Frazer-Nash flying his Frazer-Nash.

 

I'm sure I'll get some criticism for this one...

 

The last real official races on this track were in 2004, I remember in the 90's there were parts of the oval closed down, since it was built in 1924 the track never got any real work done on the oval part. They were talking about scraping it because of the cost of the repairs, there is an asso who's fighting to save that historical french track (it's actually the only oval in France). It's in bad shape...

 

Here is a video by Joris Bergsma from http://www.PreWarCar.com about vintage Revival Montlhery.

vimeo.com/64642669