Yes, those were the days. However, you would have had to be very patient with the 12-13 hp if you'd used the Isetta instead of a spare tire to drive home.
World of too much rather than plenty.Yes, those were the days. However, you would have had to be very patient with the 12-13 hp if you'd used the Isetta instead of a spare tire to drive home.
I'm much more fascinated by these small automobiles that taught us to walk than today's pompous 2.5t SUVs. But that's the way it is in a world of plenty and another story ...
Well, let's put it that way: Not everything that is technically possible is also useful ...
Which model was this one and was it rear wheel drive?
Today, people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't like
It is a word of plenty, but too much is in the hands of too few.
Rebuilt an Isetta engine a couple of years back. Everything's still available ex German suppliers. To make it more suited to modern traffic speeds i did the roller bearing big end conversion. Std car uses a plain bearing. Basically it's the 250 bike engine rod and big end bearing which drops straight in. Takes being flogged to keep up much better. Interestinly, no rebalance is specified - which did surprise me.Yes, those were the days. However, you would have had to be very patient with the 12-13 hp if you'd used the Isetta instead of a spare tire to drive home.
I'm much more fascinated by these small automobiles that taught us to walk than today's pompous 2.5t SUVs. But that's the way it is in a world of plenty and another story ...
This one would appear to be an R8 Gordini.
She has good taste! Very elegant, expect for the fenders maybe ?!
1956. Fashionable then..
If you saw my van, you’d know the Isetta was not a step down.Yes, those were the days. However, you would have had to be very patient with the 12-13 hp if you'd used the Isetta instead of a spare tire to drive home.
I'm much more fascinated by these small automobiles that taught us to walk than today's pompous 2.5t SUVs. But that's the way it is in a world of plenty and another story ...
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Disco volante (flying disk) is usually translated as flying saucer. It's a uniquely MV Agusta look. The 1970's MV 750S is probably the pinnacle of disco volante tanks. A mate of mine has one and I'm very jealous.
Just had a 175 engine on the work bench, fair bit of quirky engineering in there. Reckon that has turned me off from MV for good, the innards of the 350 twins were a disappointment for me and the fours a nightmare... I'll stick to Laverdas, thanks.
MV's.... When Chris Cutler told me about the one piece cranks with roller bearings and how the mains had to be cracked and reassembled onto the crank the the whole lot carefully fed into the crankcases or some such thing. Yeah, nah, they can keep those.Just had a 175 engine on the work bench, fair bit of quirky engineering in there. Reckon that has turned me off from MV for good, the innards of the 350 twins were a disappointment for me and the fours a nightmare... I'll stick to Laverdas, thanks.
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