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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Barry on December 14, 2012, 08:46:21 AM

Title: maratuech
Post by: Barry on December 14, 2012, 08:46:21 AM
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4936618374663&set=oa.549266485102007&type=1&theater

Title: Re: maratuech
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on December 14, 2012, 02:40:14 PM
Gorgeous! I'm suprised I never saw this in any of the Tintin books.
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Post by: Bob Purton on December 14, 2012, 03:50:09 PM
Truely fantastic.!! Forget my current project, I want to build one of those!  I assume its a one off?
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Post by: Barry on December 14, 2012, 04:24:05 PM
I want one too.  Best thing I have seen for a long time.  Late 1930 do you think?
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Post by: AndrewG on December 14, 2012, 05:30:19 PM
Stunning! Not just a rudder but an elevator/tailplane too - not that lifting the rear wheel off the ground seems like a very good idea.......
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Post by: richard on December 14, 2012, 05:41:21 PM
well we all seem to love it - god help us if we find it's 750cc and i.c. though  :)
Title: Re: maratuech
Post by: Barry on December 14, 2012, 06:17:50 PM
I must admit it would look better in light blue!

As a boy I did think about grafting an aeroplane body onto a car chassis. 
Looking at the Maratuech, a small scale Spitfire fuselage on a doner chassis (reduced to one wheel at the back) could be popular.  And a real Messershmitt look alike perhaps.

Title: Re: maratuech
Post by: piatti on December 14, 2012, 07:23:37 PM
The Maratuech is a one-off. Bulit in 1922 by Fernand Maratuech. He built several types of machines all his life and has always dreamt of constructing a plane.
As he did not have the money to realize his dream, he built a plane without wings... Over the next ten years, he drove about 5000 km with this vehicule around his home town Villeneuve-sur-Lot!
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Post by: Barry on December 15, 2012, 08:28:49 PM
Not quite as well executed.
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Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on December 15, 2012, 10:12:25 PM
Hmm, Zero points.
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Post by: Big Al on December 16, 2012, 09:00:45 AM
Maybe so, but the Panda seems quite exited.
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Post by: marcus on December 21, 2012, 08:20:21 AM
The Maratuech looks fantastic, and yes, certainly worthy of being in a Tintin book. Would I like to drive down Kings Road, Chelsea in it?


Ohhhhh YES!