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A-ko

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If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« on: February 28, 2010, 09:36:29 PM »
we'd all be driving shit like this around...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fOZXZQOg0
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 09:45:33 PM »
I wish I had one of those pieces of shit - - and a 2-cycle Saab piece of shit . . . and a 2 cycle DKW piece of shit  . . . and a 2 cycle Berkeley piece of shit . . . and a 2 cycle Goggomobile Coupe 400 piece of shit . . . and a 2 cycle Vespa 400 sedan piece of shit . . . and a 2 cycle Messerschmitt KR-200 piece of shit . . . etc . . . etc, but unfortunately I'm not wealthy enought to buy those expensive highly collectable pieces of shit!
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 10:01:19 PM »
Did you see the end of the video?  All of those chambers were awesome!

The state of cars these days kind of makes me sick.  There is no reason to have all of these giant cars on the road when the majority of the time that they are on the road there is only one person in them.  I hate how cars are status symbols.  Every time they introduce a new version of a particular model it is almost always bigger.

I'm with Eugene, I'd love to have that car.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 10:09:31 PM »
were you mislead? i would fucking kill a man to get a suzuki fronte coupe. imagine how fun it would be tuning that thing.

if you thought i was saying i DIDNT like that....maybe i was unclear. hahaha.

p.s. if we're gonna talk 2-stroke saabs....here's my dream car right here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwuRisdPMo
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 10:11:40 PM »
also i know where an old saab 2-stroke triple is, outside of a junkyard in the middle of nowhere in iowa. i took a picture of it but i dont know where it is. i want it and i want it BAD.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 10:22:34 PM »
Drool!!!!  Looks like they bought the body from the Berkeley factory.

Some of those little 2 cycle cars were really neat.  For example, the 3 cylinder DKW had 3 coils lined up beside the engine head, with a wire from each one to its individual spark plug.  The Goggomobile coupe had a preselector electric transmission . . . with a little H-pattern switch on the dash, just select the next gear you wish to have, the tap the clutch pedal and it is instantly shifted (the would be nice on a dragster hotrod!!).  The Messershmitt  went in reverse by killing the engine and starting it up running backwards.  etc.  etc.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 10:31:18 PM »
are these 2 cycle
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2010, 10:48:52 PM »
Here's the 2 cycle 3-cylinder DKW with the engine running - 3 sets of points, shooting the juice from 3 coils to the 3 spark plugs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2HIdZOdgw

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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2010, 10:51:38 PM »
yeah, those messerschmitts are weird. i love the idea of having multiple reverse gears, hahaha.

i saw an ad for one of those DKWs recently. i want one badly. in the ad it said something about how the engine was so much better than a 4-stroke because it only had 7 moving parts.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2010, 11:01:20 PM »
I've owned 3 Messerschmitts.  The last one I drove from Fort Dix, NJ to Little Rock, AR in 1969.  Mostly doing about 50 - 55 mph.  Top speed was about 70 mph but you couldn't do that for very long without it seizing.

Although it had the same 4 gears in reverse as in forward, the steering was to quick (1/4 turn lock to lock) that you would lose control and probably wreck if you wend any further than 2nd gear in reverse.

I also had many more of different makes of those little 1 and 2 cylinder cars back in the 1960s up to the 1980s when I collected them.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2010, 11:02:23 PM »
Quote from: A-ko on February 28, 2010, 10:09:31 PM
my dream car right here
Oh my GOD. That thing is perfection. Absolute perfection.

I saw the guy filming it and instantly imagined that as Nash in 30 years.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2010, 11:22:35 PM »
Mark, those little blue cars look like Autobianchi Bianchinas, with 2 cylinder air cooled 4 cycle FIAT drive trains.  The Vespa 400 looked very similar.
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2010, 11:57:10 PM »
i almost thought those were vespa 400s. haha
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 12:50:34 AM »
some of the 40ft buses i drive are 2-strokes....

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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2010, 03:06:09 AM »
2-stroke diesel i assume...
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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2010, 09:51:42 AM »
A-ko, it has been so many years since I have seen either type of car that I could easily confuse the twain, especially if viewed from the front

However, there are a few easy ways to distinguish a Bianchina from a Vespa from the front:

The Bianchina headlights, and the upper fender behind them project slightly beyond the lower wheel well area of the fender.  The Vespa headlights are closer together and located slightly inside the fender sides.

The Bianchina headlights project forward from the fenders with chrome trim rings.  The Vespa headlights are slightly Frenched (inset) and do not have chrome rings.

The Bianchina has white rubber bumper overriders located at the ends of the bumpers and directly under the headlights with the turn signals inside the overriders.  The vespa has chrome overriders located below the inside edge of the headlights with the bumper extending beyond the overriders and the turn signals located directly under the headlights and outside the overrider locations.

I would love to have one of each!!  I used to have 3 Bianchinas and 1 Vespa & loved 'em all.

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Re: If only all cars were 2-stroke....
« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2010, 10:28:44 AM »
most definitely 2-stroke diesel
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