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RE: micro car? - Austin in the Shed - 17-04-2022
I remember my dad having one,possibly two Nobels.Available in white over peacock blue only according to wiki.
Around 400 made,He had to repair some accident damage to the fibre glass body on one and had a bad skin reaction to the fibre glass in repair,I guess I would have been about 6 or seven at the time.
Through the garage I remember Mesersmitt ,Heinkel,Isetta and Bond.
The Reliant SV,as possibly the worst vehicle next to a side car outfit being driven in,Hot oily fibre glass and scary!
The Bond for its ability to turn around in the road.
Similarities to the Seven making the sidecar outfits redundant ,the introduction of the Mini killing off all these kind of cars.
However I would love a Peel P 50 or replica.
RE: micro car? - Reckless Rat - 17-04-2022
Probably not something you will see every day, not just one but a pair of French Micro cars or "voiturettes" made by Charles Mochet, called a Vélocar.
Don't know the year but he started making them in 1924. These two were seen at a local old car gathering near here in 2018:
![[Image: 20171008-141558-1.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/kgBs8NSq/20171008-141558-1.jpg)
![[Image: 20171008-141702.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/3JL9dfdt/20171008-141702.jpg)
![[Image: 20171008-095833.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/9M8trrfr/20171008-095833.jpg)
RE: micro car? - Robert Leigh - 17-04-2022
It is not evident from the picture of the Micron that it has if I remember correctly bobbin and cable steering, which turns the whole of the front axle with the engine unit, and braking is by a single drum on the solid back axle. I got interested in one last year, thinking of the Festival of Slowth. I lost interest when I learned that the asking price was 35,000 euros. In 1958 I had a Mark A Bond Minicar, with cable start and the 122cc Villiers engine. This also is a vehicle where the power unit turns with the front wheel, though up to 180 degrees, allowing it to turn on the centre of the rear axle.
RE: micro car? - Mike Costigan - 17-04-2022
Yes, I too was briefly interested in that Micron until the price was revealed!
How about this for silly transport? The ultimate sidecar combination:
RE: micro car? - Duncan Grimmond - 17-04-2022
I can see the fear engendered by the bobbin/wire steering but Tim Gunn seems to manage with his Grafton cyclecar and I gather it does stop...I certainly hope so any way! I'm working my way towards convincing myself that I need to build a Cyclecar as per his reprinted book "How to build a Cyclecar"
RE: micro car? - Ivor Hawkins - 17-04-2022
Duncan, is the Avolet amphibious or is that an exhaust trim from someone with a sense of humour?
If my Latin is anything to go by with a name like that it should fly!
RE: micro car? - Reckless Rat - 17-04-2022
They actually called it an Avolette, and they made a de-luxe version that had a double rear wheel:
![[Image: EzhrB__WEAAgSXo.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzhrB__WEAAgSXo.jpg)
RE: micro car? - Duncan Grimmond - 17-04-2022
Yes the spelling was incorrect, I took it from the transfer on the front and couldn't read it...The propellor was there as a teaser I gather. I love the cast aluminium step detail...
A few more from the same rally
RE: micro car? - Anne Griffiths - 17-04-2022
Did the Peel 50 only come in Lemon & Orange? Just asking for a friend
RE: micro car? - Bob Culver - 17-04-2022
Ha, ha.
I doubt if the tractor combo would acheive 16 mpg. The picture has a somewhat Oz look about it.
When climate change is taken seriously and the cost and impracticality of millions of evs sinks in, seems i.c. microcars will have a place. Can fit in the typical English front garden and as we are now forsaking the 1/5 acre and emulating English cities of the 1890s also suitable here.