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[HolyCount]

Yeah. a mate of mine had one in the 70's-- was basically a cockpit on wheels ---tandem 2 seater

They look great  they are worth a fortune now....

Yeah -- I bet he wished he still had it !!!  He also had the isetta bubble car, iirc, three forward gears and no reverse.  He once drove it into his garage, tight up against the back wall --- then realised he couldn't open the front hinging door. With no reverse he was trapped !!!!!  Took a few hours before he was missed  --- he had tried the horn  -- do you remember the pathetic little squeak they made

[HolyCount]

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/heinkel.htm

thats the bubble car thing
i think
im not old enough to remember it properly

Different thing -- but same concept ---

[Leomas]

Firstly I don't know if this is the right section so Admins feel free to move it.....

I have been wanting to build a trike for a looooong time now but after continually failing to find someone willing to build the chassis for me I am going to have to do it myself so...
I have been told that car chassis 'members' are only fairly low guage steel and I am using the front end of a Rover as it will be a 'tadpole' trike so a cradle for the engine and then a simple spine back to the rear wheel. Making it easy for myself I was planning to use simple box section with cut'n'weld webbed corners rather than bending.
How thin a wall do you think I can use for the box as the thinner it is, the lower rating I can get away with on the welding kit?

ps  Volunteer welders welcomed if only to show me what I will undoubtedly be doing wrong

1800vvc or 2.5 kv6?
if your gonna be stupid you may as well be really stupid   (i would)

Doug

Sadly it's just a 1.6 that I had converted some time back for LPG. Bodywork is rotted to whatsit but the engine/running gear still seem fine.

[stuart30]

Thanks for that but I'm building "That's not a trike"....

Rover engine/complete front end/front wheel drive (yes folks, two wheels at the front)
Automatic transmission (OK so I'm lazy, anything to remove the need for foot pedals)
LPG

Seen a few car-engined trikes and they all seemed to have the same issue with the gear lever sticking up in the way and from there they just got ugly. If my concept works it will be stunning and suitable for anyone to ride (disabled capable, hand controls only...possibly even with wheelchair if I could rig the floor properly) and if it doesn't then it will never see the light of day and all evidence will be destroyed.

So it has 4 wheels then.....?

I do believe there called quads...

No -- what he is talking about is a reverse trike -- 2 driven wheels at the front and a trailing wheel at the back ... Lomax style

Oh right with ya now...

Butt ugly things....go for a trike,

[dbug]

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/heinkel.htm

thats the bubble car thing
i think
im not old enough to remember it properly

Very early 60s waiting for a bus - saw one of those fall over as it came round a slight bend!