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Gerontius
I found it out because I want a new car. I really want to unearth my old bicycle but there's some trips where the bicycle is not right. So I wish I had a little tiny car--like a kei car, or like was sold in the USA and England back in the day. Next machine I get will be electric, simplified as possible, or a 2-cylinder gasoline motor...They don't make a new car I want.
Gerontius
Well, the Austin Seven, the "little Baby Austin" from English music-hall jokes, 7hp when a Model T Ford was 22hp, is surprisingly tough and rugged but its chief demerit is that they came out in 1922 and all of them range from old to very old. But the frame is just box tubing and some leaf springs--they are simple, and I think I could use Austin style parts as underpinnings for a homemade motor car.
Gerontius
These are kind of ugly but also kind of cute for underpowered little struggle buggies. They say they "never did much, but they always did it."
Suspension & frame are the coolest part.
These are kind of ugly but also kind of cute for underpowered little struggle buggies. They say they "never did much, but they always did it."
Suspension & frame are the coolest part.
Gerontius
Rear suspension (1926) just leaf springs bolted directly into the ends of the frame. Radius rods underneath the leaf-springs keep it all lined up--imagine a modern electric motor sitting in there instead. I think if I get around to building a car I'm going SLIGHTLY bigger than the Austin 7 but making a homemade version of the Austin chassis.
Gerontius
The plan is to throw an electric motor in-- I'd asked a friend about using a Model-T Ford chassis but the Tin Lizzies use the bottom of the crank case to attach radius-rods. They fall apart when you pull the motor out, and T axles and what-not are notoriously sketchy. Electric power is too much for the Ford and I think I would be better off doing at-home conversions.
Gerontius
As for why I don't put an electric motor in my Toyota, it has an automatic transmission & those aren't much suited for electrification--also the gas engine works well enough as is; I do not drive often. But smaller is better for cars so I would love to throw a chassis together and at least see if it would yard drive.
Gerontius
Electric cars don't sound great, and there's no telling what they manipulate the new ones to sound like. On the Tundra pickups (now a V-6 not V-8) they pipe in the sound of a V8. If it just sounds like an electric motor it's not going to be much weirder than a golf cart sound, or an old washing-machine.
I hate the way new cars sound--sensory nightmare. I like my old car but not the expense, filth, and oil smoke.
I hate the way new cars sound--sensory nightmare. I like my old car but not the expense, filth, and oil smoke.