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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on November 15, 2011, 05:52:31 PM

Title: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 05:52:31 PM
where else other than in the obvious would you find this 1953 vw beatle speaker grill - on a micro ?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Chris Thomas on November 15, 2011, 06:15:08 PM
Knowing you  a Gordon front grill

Chris Thomas
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 07:14:00 PM
try again  ;) ;)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Big Al on November 15, 2011, 07:31:49 PM
Pfail body air vents?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 07:47:22 PM
Pfail body air vents?

Bingo!

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4682471441_499f094ca5_b.jpg)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Big Al on November 15, 2011, 08:01:10 PM
So if you rotate the left headlight the engine gets louder and the other changes it from radio 2 stroke to radio 4 stroke etc? Cunning these Germans.
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 08:04:47 PM
well done but not too hard knowing my interests  ;)

Bruetsch must have liked them - he fitted them to The Rollera, Bussard and Pfeil fronts as dummys and Pfeil rear wings as engine vents . interestingly production Rolleras - they built 6 , have a different arrangement of 3 ally bars across the nose - i wonder if VW objected ?

 ;D al are you tuning into R2 or V2
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 08:12:19 PM
well done but not too hard knowing my interests  ;)

Bruetsch must have liked them - he fitted them to The Rollera, Bussard and Pfeil fronts as dummys and Pfeil rear wings as engine vents . interestingly production Rolleras - they built 6 , have a different arrangement of 3 ally bars across the nose - i wonder if VW objected ?

 ;D al are you tuning into R2 or V2

Now, time for me to outsmart you with my amazing Brutsch Knowledge...

The V2 also had them, it has the same nose as the Pfeil.

This doesnt have it, but I have never seen these recent pics of the France Jet v2n... http://www.djibnet.com/photo/brütsch/
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 08:16:18 PM
had trouble posting so had to retype and missed out v2 second time  :(

well done jonathan we will make something of you yet  ;)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 08:24:34 PM
cant make anything of that link - its all in ****** french  :D

sorry i did get there it really wasn't very hard . nothing new to me but nice to see the video of bert grimmers mopetta again - nice
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 09:00:46 PM
cant make anything of that link - its all in ****** french  :D

Probably what my dad is thinking ;)

http://www.djibnet.com/photo/br%C3%BCtsch/france-jet-1100-cockpit-3625521337.html

The first link didnt seem to work correctly.

Hehe, I can virtually guarantee I am the kid with nthe most microcar knowledge on earth ;) I know a guy in the same grade as me who knows quite a bit aswell.

Microcar-World is taking place. Still needs a load of work, but it will be a site with information on loads of cars :)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 09:16:08 PM
Rollera as originally mooted by herr bruetsch
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 09:25:58 PM
thats the pic i was after
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Air_Tourist_Rollera.jpg
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 09:27:46 PM
Rollera as originally mooted by herr bruetsch

Wasnt the first picture a Mopetta? It said Mopetta, but looks like a Rollera...
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 09:33:47 PM
first picture ? the page from mag ?  it does say rollera , and is . the last pic - the brochure shows the rollera as designed i think , but production cars 6 ? /8 ? dont  seem to have had the speaker grill on the front
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 09:39:09 PM
first picture ? the page from mag ?  it does say rollera , and is . the last pic - the brochure shows the rollera as designed i think , but production cars 6 ? /8 ? dont  seem to have had the speaker grill on the front

Mixed up my words. Looks like a mopetta to me. Looks a bit shorter, but xcant really see. Mopetta window, no hand bar, 2 tone like mopetta.

JP
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
easy to mix them up in some pics. mopetta frontal trim makes more of a circular enclosure which i always thinks looks a bit empty - until the handle and number plate arrive
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on November 15, 2011, 10:03:17 PM

Hehe, I can virtually guarantee I am the kid with nthe most microcar knowledge on earth ;)


 What's this then?   8)   (Don't help him, those who know...)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 15, 2011, 10:09:07 PM
easy to mix them up in some pics. mopetta frontal trim makes more of a circular enclosure which i always thinks looks a bit empty - until the handle and number plate arrive

Thats why there brutches, all different ;)

dont get it Stuart... I dont know any kid that knows any more then that!

EDIT: I didnt seethe pic lol.

 No idea. Some sort of mix of a MC and a Kikos?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 15, 2011, 10:12:05 PM
no idea but you said not to say if i did  ;)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Bob Purton on November 15, 2011, 10:23:52 PM
But is it a microcar or an IC? Jonathan only claimed to know about microcars.
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Big Al on November 16, 2011, 09:19:15 AM
They learned the Rollera of their ways?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 16, 2011, 04:42:24 PM

Hehe, I can virtually guarantee I am the kid with nthe most microcar knowledge on earth ;)


 What's this then?   8)   (Don't help him, those who know...)

Looking at it closely, I'm guessing its a Yamaha. It has the same handles bars and same "dash" as my Yamaha QT50 moped.
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on November 16, 2011, 05:05:22 PM
 Getting warmer...   :)  Here's another view. It's not anything homemade either, despite what it looks like..... 
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 16, 2011, 05:07:58 PM
looks like jonathans pretty much there to me !
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 16, 2011, 05:23:05 PM
Getting warmer...   :)  Here's another view. It's not anything homemade either, despite what it looks like..... 

Hmmm... Looks like a bath plonked on the moped.

My memory is quite bad... What was the Moby like? I remember it was some sort of moped cabin. Is this one?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on November 16, 2011, 05:26:05 PM
 By jove the boy's good!   ;D  Tis indeed the Moby which lurks deep in the Bubble Building.  (Cure streamers & marching band by way of getting it)
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Jonathan Poll on November 16, 2011, 05:31:51 PM
By jove the boy's good!   ;D  Tis indeed the Moby which lurks deep in the Bubble Building.  (Cure streamers & marching band by way of getting it)

Hehe I told you ;)

Its horribly bui,lt! Was it a one off?
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: Big Al on November 16, 2011, 06:25:13 PM

Thats why there brutches, all different ;)

dont get it Stuart... I dont know any kid that knows any more then that!

EDIT: I didnt seethe pic lol.

 No idea. Some sort of mix of a MC and a Kikos?

MC Kikos, about sums that sort of music up really.
Title: Re: mystery part
Post by: richard on November 16, 2011, 06:58:34 PM
music ? are you on yamaha organs now ?