An electric Bamby does exist, I guy I know did the conversion and bought the car to the Loxwood Bond rally a few years back. I had a drive and it worked very well, of course it didnt solve all the other Bamby things that need addressing like brakes, steering and suspension. Now the market is a wash with suitable automatic scooter power units, something there wasnt much choice of in the early eighties, a rework of the car would be quite feasible and an interesting project. I owned one in the ninties and selected a better power unit, one with variable belt drive and it work much better , if I had persisted with it I would have scraped the go kart brakes and master cylinder that never had a header tank or reservoir of any description! You had to fill or should I say prime the cylinder with a spoon full of fluid and then hope that it didnt lose any in operation or you would be a dead man, madness!! Maybe a pair of Messerschmitt hubs and cables would have been better. The other issue as I remember was the rear wheel swaying from side to side due to over flexible silent blocks that the whole unit was mounted in[probably the ones from the Suzuki Cs50 scooter that the units were from] Obviously if they had been replaced with others that were too hard the vibration would have been transferred to the chassis. The Nobel has roughly the same set up however the fluid transmission swing arm is held by a couple of stabilizing tie rods at the end, maybe this would have worked on the Bamby? I'm sure that Emma has cast her qualified eyes over it and has come up with something far more competent. Cant wait to see!
