paulplom Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 8:53 AM, Austat said: FEI X3 "Lavinia", designed and built by some Brazilian university students: You'll never burn yourself on that exhaust every single time you get in or out of the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 On 8/14/2020 at 8:47 PM, DVee8 said: That looks a lot like a Fiat Idea. That is because it it is almost the same car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Laurence Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Lamborghini/Bertone Genesis: a 1988 People carrier with gullwing doors, a Countach V12 and a 3 speed automatic Quintus, bunglebus, Dan_ZTT and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 750mm Vignale http://www.bernimotori.com/abarth_750mm_vignale_it.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 My friend owns one of those. It's actually incredible. He used to commute in it in the '80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkrc Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I have no idea what that is but it looks a bit "Big Fat Gipsy Wedding" Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkrc Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Renha Formigao Austat, Yoss and Mr Laurence 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info. sdkrc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkrc Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 bunglebus, Bfg, Yoss and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 10 hours ago, sdkrc said: Renha Formigao They look very much like they could have been made by Gurgel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkrc Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: They look very much like they could have been made by Gurgel The red Formigao looks like I made it Absolutely see what you mean. Both Brazilian as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Three-door bingo. Three back seats, but no back doors. Why? I can't see any advantage in this over the five-door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 13 hours ago, puddlethumper said: If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info. From a quick glance I thought it said Fromage - wedge shaped and a bit of a whiff about it. Which brings me to this - the Sebring-Vanguard Citicar an American electric car using 6 volt batteries with a range of 35 miles. Phun Phact - 4444 were made and they held the post war production record for US made electric cars until beaten by the Tesla Model S. More here - https://siamagazin.com/the-sebring-vanguard-citicar-is-an-electric-cheese-wedge-from-the-70s/ And this, on the outside at least, became the Elbil Norge Kewet Buddy (Kewet = the rather snappy Knud Erik Westergaard Elektrisk Transport). Knud was a Dane making pressure washers; he sold this company in the late 80's and moved into electric cars. First made in Denmark, then moved to the former DDR and then bought out by Elbil Norge (nee Kollega Bil A/S) who moved the production to Norway. It looks like they packed it in in 2013. There was at least one in the UK... Atomkraft? Nein Danke. JeeExEll, puddlethumper, somewhatfoolish and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Look at this horror - The Electric Shopper Model FG-75. Made by The Electric Car Company of California, Inc in the 50's and early 60's. I won't bore you further, read this if you must - https://www.prestigeelectriccar.com/en/history/1091/Electric_Shopper_1960 'Dependable for more than 25 years' - legal, decent, honest and truthful ? But it looks like at least one has existed for more than 25 years (whether it was dependable or not is another question). JimH, Aston Martin, JeeExEll and 7 others 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Astonishingly it looks even worse in real life, than in the drawing face, martc and gtd2000 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 I like the fact that if you look at the photo after reading Blx comment, it looks horrifically offended in a Y Tho way. Supernaut and martc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 4 hours ago, martc said: Atomkraft? Nein Danke. The irony of protesting about a power plant, in an electric car. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 2 hours ago, bunglebus said: The irony of protesting about a power plant, in an electric car. Funny, I thought that. Assuming the thing is being charged, using the National Grid, at 18:20 on 18/8/20 11% of the electricity is coming from nuclear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Interesting that these ancient comedy Septic electric things have the same range as most current ( geddit?) plug in hybrids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 9 hours ago, robinmasters said: Three-door bingo. Three back seats, but no back seats. Why? I can't see any advantage in this over the five-door. The very early ones were all 3-door, but sales fell off a cliff when the much more practical 5-door came out. robinmasters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 23 hours ago, puddlethumper said: If I remember my Portuguese correctly, Formigao means a small ant. A bit of, probable, useless info. Ah, as in formic acid, from ants etc. That makes sense. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdkrc Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Shamelessly stolen from a subreddit called r/weirdwheels but supremely* interesting. It's a collection of North Korean vehicles. I imagine there's a heck of a lot of rehashing here https://ibb.co/album/6g06BC *Downgraded to 'quite interesting' after going through the lot face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Last one looks like a Brazilian Fiat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Kumgang! Check out that smooth handlebar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Sounds like a bukkake party spartacus, Remspoor, bobdisk and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 A North Korean rip-off of a Chinese rip-off of Japanese machinery. WCPGW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman Of The People Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 On 8/20/2020 at 6:59 AM, martc said: From a quick glance I thought it said Fromage - wedge shaped and a bit of a whiff about it. Which brings me to this - the Sebring-Vanguard Citicar an American electric car using 6 volt batteries with a range of 35 miles. Phun Phact - 4444 were made and they held the post war production record for US made electric cars until beaten by the Tesla Model S. More here - https://siamagazin.com/the-sebring-vanguard-citicar-is-an-electric-cheese-wedge-from-the-70s/ There's an automatic car wash local to me that has one of these on a revolving plinth sat outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 RPB (Racing Plast Burträsk) Piraya / GT, a Swedish VW Beetle-based kit car: Remspoor, bunglebus and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 BMW 3200CS: timolloyd and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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