RUMCars Forum
General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on December 19, 2012, 11:09:03 PM
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wish this was under my tree this year
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Opperman Unicar? You are welcome to one.
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come on then Bob what on earth is wrong with this one then ? fibreglass 328cc excelsior engine and BRITISH > are you a racist ? tell us . is there ANY British designed microcar of the 50s/60s ? that you do like ?
http://www.handlewithfun.com/lot-details.cfm?SaleCode=BW13&CarID=r255
i certainly wouldn't mind this one and suspect this could fetch a fair bit - nice little slideshow
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I would be happy enough to have one, but not enough time for a kit version!
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I'm sure Bob loves the Nobe, but its just a german car in disguise ;)
I love the Unicars. They are weird, but great!
JP
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Hi mate I have one for you, but not till I get home - same issue kit nobel. I think bob likes german cars in disguise ;)
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come on then Bob what on earth is wrong with this one then ? fibreglass 328cc excelsior engine and BRITISH > are you a racist ? tell us . is there ANY British designed microcar of the 50s/60s ? that you do like ?
http://www.handlewithfun.com/lot-details.cfm?SaleCode=BW13&CarID=r255
i certainly wouldn't mind this one and suspect this could fetch a fair bit - nice little slideshow
I thought I would like Unicars but having seen a couple in the flesh they just didnt appeal.
What DO I like, I thought you knew, mainly bubbley shaped cars like Avolettes, some Brutches, bubble window Isettas, Pear drop, Tourette, if not bubbly then aero looking like Kaiser, Inter, many of the French 1950's cars like Rolux, Atlas, Rovin etc, some of the Morgan based kits like Triking. British cars? Frisky, Bond C and D, Tourette . The kind of thing I dont like are lumpy cars lacking style like Loyds, Gordons, ect. What I would like as a gift arriving on my door step I think would be a Rolux Baby, as Arfer Mullard once sung to Hilder Baker, "Your the one dat I want, Ooo Ooo Ooo" :D
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Well agreed no bad ones there , perhaps you would have included the scootacar. I like the others on a historical front - the gordon is creating quite a lot of local interest.lloyds I know little of but they sold in 10s of thousands in the day , a bit too normal for me . Marcus - I don't think a kit of brand new parts would have been too challenging . I have somewhere the instructions for the unicar- all I need to do is find the unassembled parts.
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I like the fact that the scootacar is a unique British attempt at a Bubble car but I think the styling is ungamely. I can understand local historic interest and also investment but the cars I own I have bought because they please my eye.
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On the whole German and French micro car design and styling was better than British and I prefer four strokes to two. (Ooo, matron!)
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Also one for you later marcus, kit for christmas morning 1958 ,with bsa 650 4 stroke engine built by boxing day
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if you do find one under your tree and , like bob, you don't want it please let me know . always great to get a kit at christmas . what a treat to get a full size one in a crate :)
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more plans too big for one post
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Pity the Opperman Punicar, wheel drums to weak to be a sports car. Indeed not helped by the lack off diff on the narrow rear axle. Roulette handling and the joys of Zanyish Bandai 322cc or Calapsior 328cc depending on construction method. Another brave try to run over Blofeld's cat, there, by Mr Bond.
The Scootacar is the pick of the field, all be it with the style of a speeding bogey, its a flick of the finger in front. Yet the earlier Bonds have something in the looks department the eccentricity of design is an acquired taste. The more developed later cars lost the styling to become square shaped and I agree with Bob that the blimp/bollide shapes are much easier on the eye. The British seem not to have a natural eye to form with vehicles in the main. When they do very often the content is then substandard. Thus the imported Isetta, imagined in Italy, scrubbed up to scratch in Germany and lent to Brighton become the most successful 'British' bubblecar. All rather describing our motoring manufacturing over the last five decades in a microcosm.
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agreed agreed - but my point was the excitement of getting a kit in a crate on christmas morning . you boring old sods have you forgotten fun christmas presents and making kits . if you get anything more fun in your stocking good luck to you .
don't over analyse it - imagine it :)
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The point of Chrimbo presents with instructions is to ignore the instructions and do it wrong. Get frustrated and leave it till after New Year and then either leave it laying about or do it properly over the next few days, weeks, months depending on degree of difficulty. On this basis our family were pretty certain one present we would not get would be Airfix etc. kits. This was because we used to do them with some care. Chrimbo was for additional Meccano, Leggo or other more generalized tooling, materials for construction. I recall a transparent clock kit you could see the workings of. A Heathkit radio. Philips electrical sets. The last two are probably long extinct. One year my Uncle gave me a Maplins catalogue instead of a card when they were mail order parts and kits from Essex? Oh to be young again with all those things to make and learn about. Stuff football.
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now your talking ! with 4 boys we usually reckoned to have enough bits left over to make something else
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My Leggo colour was yellow. It stopped fights. My sister had little interest in Meccano though, so that was shared between two. We had a lot of it, much the early thicker gauge stuff from Grandfolks and family, as we were the only boys in the generation, other than Cousin Andrew (His father was the one who had a Jarc in Banstead) who was older and a bit of a genius, already making computers out of scrap bits etc at 12 in 1970. His uncle Dick was employed as an inventor by Marconi. Probably the source of parts. Clever family. It was expected that boys made stuff in our family.
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would that stack of crates to the left be a stack of excelsior 328cc engines that santas little helpers are getting ready for me ?
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Certainly look like engine crates!
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come on then you injin ears whats going on on the workbenches ?
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Who are you calling enjin ears?! Well they could contain engines for the Unicar but if they do I think they have over ordered! As Oppermans were tractor manifacturers they could equally contain small tractor engines.
Great picture by the way. I dont know where you keep finding them!
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i have a few of these these pics from one article ages ago - they were a great series of photo's ( see pub meet , tourette buck etc ) so as i have just had my first lesson in cropping i will try a few more .
trying to find something to keep us interested go with the flow - nothing will please us all :)
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surely not an engine for one of these -but even a real one of these could be fun for christmas - The Opperman other three wheeler
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