Three-Wheeled Midget Car Built in Spare Time (Nov, 1938)
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1938
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1938
| Buy on Ebay
Three-Wheeled Midget Car Built in Spare Time
In his spare time, stretched over eighteen months, a Californian built a three-wheeled midget automobile that has traveled sixty-eight miles an hour. It has a front wheel drive and rear wheel steering, and covers as much as forty to forty-two miles per gallon. There are buttons on the windshield for attaching a top.
That really caught my eye. You wouldn’t happen to have the complete how-to article, would you? A homebuilt micro-car would be a fun project.
Of course, if the article is still under copyright, I understand.
Comment by RJ — August 21, 2007 @ 11:16 am
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any plans on how to build this one. Sorry.
Comment by Charlie — August 21, 2007 @ 11:17 am
Ah well. The photos are still good, and give me some ideas.
Comment by RJ — August 21, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
If you’re looking for plans there is at least one set in the Popular Mechanics do-it-yourself encyclopedia. I got my set at a garage sale but I see them in used bookstores all the time
Comment by beaglebot — August 27, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Tree wheels is unique but i you have that of this kind of year is so ugly.You know why it because you are going be different car.
Comment by 4reyes — December 15, 2008 @ 7:02 pm