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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on April 28, 2011, 05:44:11 PM

Title: peel p50
Post by: richard on April 28, 2011, 05:44:11 PM: how hard is it to get the correct engine for an original p50 - i know a young guy who swears his dad has a car with no engine. not sure i believe him though. also says he has a screen for a Trident
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Bob Purton on April 28, 2011, 05:59:32 PM: Oh No! Not another Peel thread. Yawn! :D :D In answer, quite hard I believe but a DKW that is close but not the exact same model is much easier. This is what I have been told. Trident screens are just a flat piece of glass.
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Peelpower on April 28, 2011, 09:18:00 PM: Quote from: lightweight dickie on April 28, 2011, 05:44:11 PM
how hard is it to get the correct engine for an original p50 - i know a young guy who swears his dad has a car with no engine. not sure i believe him though. also says he has a screen for a Trident

Sent me a personal message where the Peel is located, please ;D

Joke, i know you wont >:(
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Big Al on April 29, 2011, 08:01:37 AM: Does it matter which engine you fit now?

We found a correct 'Peel' engine in the skip pile at Mannheim one year so that goes some way to suggest an answer as to where many of them have gone. That one was sold to someone who had a collection of Peel bits, a wallet and a magic wand but since the engine was free I can afford to snigger.

Noticed in the paper waiting for a Chinky that Peel Holdings are trying to buy Shepperton Studios!
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Jonathan Poll on May 01, 2011, 02:57:42 PM: Quote from: lightweight dickie on April 28, 2011, 05:44:11 PM
how hard is it to get the correct engine for an original p50 - i know a young guy who swears his dad has a car with no engine. not sure i believe him though. also says he has a screen for a Trident

Give me his details, I will give him an engine ;D

You can occasionly find original engines at Mannheim, but Andy Carter is also after them!
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: P50 on May 04, 2011, 01:46:27 PM: Quote from: Bob Purton on April 28, 2011, 05:59:32 PM
Oh No! Not another Peel thread. Yawn! :D :D

Bob's usual response to anyone who dares to post a Peel related thread.

I'm sure however should Bob happen apon and acquire a missing Peel a thread would be posted for all to see and pore over the pics..

::)
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Bob Purton on May 04, 2011, 02:22:29 PM: A bit slow there Pel, I expected you to churp up almost instantaniously! :D You know I dont mean it! And yes, you are right , if I found a Peel I would be shouting it from the roof tops! :D :D
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: richard on May 04, 2011, 10:21:36 PM: and i am just playing gently, gently catchee monkey . well i can dream cant i ? :)
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: P50 on May 05, 2011, 08:47:46 AM: For the interested the Peel motor is an 804 1600 4.2ps type.

But the Peel engines had a 4xxx. So 804 1600 4xxx would be one
of the correct DKW type as ordered by Peel (approx 200 it is said).

So a bells and whistles car will have a Peel chassis plate on the body
and a DKW plate riveted to the motor with its number per above.
Title: Re: peel p50
Post by: Big Al on May 05, 2011, 10:01:14 AM: Australians could not give a DKW 4XXX if it did, apparantly. Cannot advise on the rest of the world but pertinent info!