Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

The silver Lancia referred to a few posts up looks to be a Lancia Fulvia Zagato. Very cool in my view. And rare ish. I saw one in the carpark of my local mountainbike park west of Auckland city a couple of years ago and was amazed
 
CLEMTOG said:
I did some Googling Gerald you are right, the early Suzuki jeeps had 359cc air cooled twin cylinder 2T engines, later the same size but water cooled, the next ones 539cc three cylinder 2T ...
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I met a couple of very attractive girls travelling in one of those 3-cylinder 2-stroke Suzuki 4WDs just east of Mt Isa in Queensland. The bloody thing struggled to get up a hill in first gear. It was blowing heaps of smoke and sounded like it was running on one cylinder when they pulled over in a rest area at the top of the hill. I was touring on my Kawasaki 900 and was busy frying up some eggs and bacon for breakfast. I wandered over to where they had stopped and told them their Suzuki probably needed a clean set of plugs. They looked a bit confused, so I showed them how to pull the spark plugs and clean them. They were very black and oily (the plugs, not the girls). I cleaned them as best I could on the side of the road and burned the oil off them with my gas cooker. When I put them back in, the thing fired up on all 3 cylinders. They were very grateful (no, not THAT grateful). They took off and I never saw them again. There was a truckie cooking his breakfast nearby, who came over after the girls had left and said I'd missed an opportunity there. Oh well. At least I did a good deed.
 
Beucars said:
My father owned a PL17 "Tigre" when young which he always describes as his best car ever

I like the golden age of French motoring with Delahaye, Talbot Lago and later Ligier, Matra etc
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Yep, very innovative engineering. I have a friend with a couple of DB Panhard and of course, that engine was used in a few motorcycles. I used to have a neighbour who put one in a BMW series 2. Very neatly done.

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Paul Marx said:
Yep, very innovative engineering. I have a friend with a couple of DB Panhard and of course, that engine was used in a few motorcycles. I used to have a neighbour who put one in a BMW series 2. Very neatly done.

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Judging by the rear hub, that looks more like a Ratier than a Beemer.

piet
 
Alzero said:
Other than diesels, have there been 2-strokes with more than three cylinders? Excepting the 500gp monsters and the replicas from the ‘80s.
My boat had a pair of 12-cylinder two-strokes, turbos and superchargers!
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Mercury do loads of V6 outboard engines and some very powerful.
My neighbor here in Belgium was 3rd in the F1 World Champion with a V8 Evinrude which is in his lobby on display.
I think though nowadays most have moved to 4 stroke. (shame)
Jules
 
KLEINDORF said:
What we need is a picture of Rowan Atkinson on location in Budapest shooting an episode of
Inspector Maigret being driven in one of these mutant autos for the Euro cred.
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Nah.
Filming in the more abandoned districts of Liège where Simenon was born, in a Traction Citroën would be much more appropriate.
The town of Liège also having an extremely rich motorcycling past, incidently. Only the Fabrique Nationale, FN, still exists I believe, but only making weapons nowadays.

Paul
 
Vince said:
I dont know how this fits into this thread but bombs away
www.odd-bike.com

König 500 GP - Outboard-Powered Underdog

The König 500cc Grand Prix Motorcycle - an unlikely contender that threatened to unseat MV Agusta from the podium using a German outboard motor with legendary novice racer Kim Newcombe at the helm. A true motorsports Cinderella story.
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Fantastic article and good with some motorcycle amongst all the cars. Does anyone know if his fatal accident the one where the gear pedal grounded and knocked it into a false neutral?
Konig motors were use for sidecar racing for some time?
 
A few motorcycles from Buenos Aires:

First a newer RE.
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A KTM 370 with new styling badged as a Husqavarna svartpillen 401.
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A Beta? Anyone know anything about these?
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A customized tiddler.
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Another modified bike, this one owned by a teenage busboy at a pizza shop.
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I love that kids are still chopping and hacking their bikes to personalize them.
 
and in the UK at least two sidecar road racers used the Panhard twin, one such racer was local bloke Doug Young. He also tried the go kart, no supension plan, just twisty wishbones etc, he had a lot of fun and super reliability, (race prep, pump tyres fill with gas, fit charged battery, job done) which made up for a lot, but not quite quick enough
CLEM
 
Alzero said:
A few motorcycles from Buenos Aires:

First a newer RE.
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A KTM 370 with new styling badged as a Husqavarna svartpillen 401.
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A Beta? Anyone know anything about these?
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A customized tiddler.
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Another modified bike, this one owned by a teenage busboy at a pizza shop.
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I love that kids are still chopping and hacking their bikes to personalize them.
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really enjoying the postings of your travels, thanks so much!

Paul LeClair
 
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