Best Messerschmitt video ever!

[Azimech]

Enjoy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlFaERcPeA&NR=1

[Blackdog_kt]

Damn, they really do have a fetish with the side-hinging canopy thing over there, don't they? :-P

[Splitter]

You Europeans will drive anything lol.

Is it true that the car was a three wheeler so the that the owners did not have to pay certain taxes on cars?

Splitter

[Snuff_Pidgeon]

A guy down the road from me restored one. Its a little beauty, you can hear the 2 stroke a mile away along with the blue smoke bellowing out of it a sight to behold, even the interior looks like a basic cockpit!

[WTE_Galway]

Always been more a fan of the Gogomobile myself :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSFUC3-ars&feature=related

[Fossil-Goz]

Always been more a fan of the Gogomobile myself :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSFUC3-ars&feature=related
Nah not the Dart

G O GG O

[zapatista]

You Europeans will drive anything lol.

Is it true that the car was a three wheeler so the that the owners did not have to pay certain taxes on cars?

Splitter
i had a friend when living in holland yrs ago who owned a BMW of the same era and genre, his had a door at the front and was a little 2 seater

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachment.php?attachmentid=3565&stc=1&d=1286449248

the story he told at the time was that at the end of the war the BMW and messerschmitt factories were not allowed to make airplanes anymore and for a brief period they produced some vehicles based on using previous manufacturing plant (and even using some sparts they had left over from the war era ?). no idea if that was true or not however :)

i think even heinkel made a few cars like that after the war, each one looking weirder then the last one :]

[WTE_Galway]

i had a friend when living in holland yrs ago who owned a BMW of the same era and genre, his had a door at the front and was a little 2 seater

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachment.php?attachmentid=3565&stc=1&d=1286449248

the story he told at the time was that at the end of the war the BMW and messerschmitt factories were not allowed to make airplanes anymore and for a brief period they produced some vehicles based on using previous manufacturing plant (and even using some sparts they had left over from the war era ?). no idea if that was true or not however :)

i think even heinkel made a few cars like that after the war, each one looking weirder then the last one :]





175cc Heinkel Kabine ...


http://www.thomast.nl/images/trojan200.JPG

[zapatista]

175cc Heinkel Kabine ...


http://www.thomast.nl/images/trojan200.JPG

its a little beauty, and clear to see their airplane manufacturing background !

the Messerschmidt also had a 4 wheel version it seems, and a ragtop to :)

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachment.php?attachmentid=3570&stc=1&d=1286505113

btw did you understand the german spoken in the gogo mobile vid clip you posted ? the owner, who does a little spin at the start of the clip, had replaced the original engine with a nitro methane powered one that produces more then 10x the original power (and peaks at 12000 rpm) :)

[robtek]

The 4-wheeled Messerschmitt was actually a FMR (Fend-Messerschmitt-Roller) TG1, called "Tiger", and had a 490ccm 2-stroke engine with 19,5 hp, approx 290 - 320 were build.
The name "Messerschmitt" wasn't used then anymore.
There was a english company, Tri-Tech, that until 2009 sold kits for 2650 bp or ready build replicas, called "schmitt" for 8800 bp.

[WTE_Galway]

btw did you understand the german spoken in the gogo mobile vid clip you posted ? the owner, who does a little spin at the start of the clip, had replaced the original engine with a nitro methane powered one that produces more then 10x the original power (and peaks at 12000 rpm) :)

I can read some German but spoken german is beyond me :D However I realized it was a modified Goggomobile when I saw the Yamaha motorcycle engine on the Dyno.