<VV> Motorcycle transplants?(no Corvair)

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

You didn't take us far enough thru the galleries !!! <GGG>
http://www.3wheelers.com/archives/archive2/body_gal153.html
Chuckster

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At 07:03 PM 8/16/2005, you wrote:
>You guys are only 50 years too late! Berkeley used this idea in 1956 
>using a 322cc motorcycle engine to propel a 650lb monoque fiberglass car. Even
>retained the chain drive (making modern swaps all the easier). Even 
>with 17 hp the car would do 60mph. These were upgraded to 328cc, 
>then 492cc (both
>British Excelsior engines)  and finally to 4 stroke Royal Enfield 
>750cc 50hp engines that propelled the car past 100mph. Keep the 
>weight low and you don't
>need much power. I had planned 3 times to add a GT550 engine to a 
>328cc car that would exceed the performance of the Enfield cars...
>http://fnader.com/images/Berkeley_T60/Berk%20engine%20Corvair%20picnic.jpg
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>My 3 wheeler Berk weighs even less!
>http://fnader.com/images/Berkeley_T60/berkeley004.jpg
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>Two Brits have done radical R1 conversions of a Bond Bug (already 
>suicidal in stock form) and a Mini....
>http://www.3wheelers.com/archives/archive2/body_gal149.html
>Can't put my hands on a pic of the Mini at the moment.
>
>Trouble is, a car the weight of a Corvair needs MORE cubic inches, 
>not fewer...
>Bill
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