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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Bob Purton on January 06, 2008, 07:26:42 pm
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Whats this then?
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Hmm, looks like a French-made Gauthier to me. Probably around 1926
and with the 250cc engine if I'm not mistaken!
Nick D.
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If It wasnt for the fact that you are a public sevant of Her Majesty I would suspect you of cheating and looking it up on the website splashed across the photo! But, Nick, which month in 1926 ? Answer me that! Also, what make engine?
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You suspect right, bobbybubble. I also looked at this webside. So everybody knows nows it is a Gauthier 1926 and a 250cc engine is fitted. Good side anyway!
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Who? Me? A cheat? The very idea! You cut me to the quick with your suggestion!
Nice car, though. Not sure I'd like to be the passenger though - who wants to be the
first to reach the accident? At least with my Trabant I had the benefit of a tank of two
stroke mix to absorb the impact.
Nick D.
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Further cheating - sorry, research - has revealed the model of the Gauthier to be
a "Cabri" and the make of the engine to be Musard. No idea of the month.
I have failed you, my friends, and will now go and fall on my Departmental letter
opener, a fitting end to a not-too distinguished career.
Nick D.
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Well done Nick falling on your sword like that, it shows real charrecter! I agree about not wanting to be the passenger, this layout is something I have seen on some much earlier vehicles that were on the Brighton run so they must have been, what is it, pre 1904? I forgot you had a trab, is that one on the lastest Mintcard add, you know, the smart/dumb balance is restored? I will now look for another mystery car and leave no scope for cheating, its just not cricket!!
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My Trabi was a 1981 P601 saloon in that horrible shade of vomit green. I sold it to fund the
restoration of a Kombi which was much worse than it seemed when I bought it so that had
to go,too. Then I got into Morris Minors for a while before discovering cyclemotors and
microcars. The rest, as they say, is history.
Amities a tous
Nick D.
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Hello Nick, I like the sound of the 2 stroke tanks in your Trabbie absorbing the impact, but it reminded me of a nasty incident a friend of mine saw in Eastern Europe quite a few years ago. After an apparently survivable head-on the Trabbie exploded furiously and was flung way up into the sky, killing those in it outright. It was winter and they had a petrol or gas stove inside the car.