Showing posts with label motor wheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motor wheel. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

The above was identified as a Red Bug (but looks like a Briggs and Stratton Flyer or Smith Flyer to me) based on the shifter lever and fuel tank, and is realistically the same as several other brand buggys, powered by a Motor Wheel, and look like a lot of fun. The top photo is the same company cart, but earlier and with electric power. The batteries are in the box on the back, and that is why the kids are looking like they can't find where to put the fuel 



 The fuel company product in the tank is "Whoo Pep"
 from David's great vintage car photo blog http://theoldmotor.com/ where you can just look at the photos, or read about the history behind them too

Friday, July 22, 2011


http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/4-wheel-buckboard-with-smith-motor.html for the engineering drawings and other photos of hte Smith Motor wheel and 4 wheel buckboard

This is one photo from the "Good Dog Scrapbook" of Jim Linderman http://dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-dog-scrapbook-by-jim-linderman-and.html

Monday, July 11, 2011




pretty damn cool

Friday, June 10, 2011

Ain't that the cutest thing you've seen today?

1950 Nash dealership

Navy Shore Patrol helping a fellow sailor into a Medical Department ambulance





I think this is the earliest american flag tank I've seen, and it looks great on this bike








a Ford dealership in 1932

Ozark mountineer burro train ride (can't read the last word)
The Rebel Gal crew and the partially completed nose art that shows how one artist made the painting the right scale
see more at http://21studs.tumblr.com/

Thursday, May 26, 2011









Tuesday, March 29, 2011

1930's France it seems, because just to the left of the motorwheel is a Citreon Traction Avant

Steam powered ditch digger.. .that is a monster

Cadillac tow truck, for more cars converted into tow trucks see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/tow-trucks-were-sometimes-made-from-big.html
Johnny Cash and the 1986 Steam Expo. Very cool. Two times.

the above is the Lanz bulldog, 1 cylinder, compression ignition powered
all of these are just an indication of how cool http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ is

Saturday, February 12, 2011

found on http://motorcycle-74.blogspot.com/
if you get a kick out of unusual "Motorwheels" from the innovators who kept trying to perfect a great big wheel you rode inside of, take a look through http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/motor%20wheel

Monday, December 27, 2010

Never seen one before, and something about the age of a black and white photo tells me that these are obsolete

I have no idea at all what this is

Ok, but why take it out if you have to add skis?

Really early car phone

Odd stuff on this tow truck

1890's and I was told it's a velocipede
Lenin's 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost snow machine. Most expensive snow machine conversion? or strangest use for a Rolls Royce?

I've never seen a photo of a tractor involved in a car crash

no idea what the motorbike in front is

Never seen a train engine like this... must be for moving train cars around in a train yard

For packing dirt roads?

Early Daytona Beach racers with superchardged Auburns, before NASCAR took over racing on Daytona Beach

Click for full size to read the story

Two of the rare Jeeps the (1959) FC 59, but the below is even more rare


Model T tank

Love the motor wheels... I'd so love to ride one! This one was investigated by Hemmings Blog and you can read more about it: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/22/m-goventosas-one-wheel-to-obscurity/ it went 93mph... I doubt that anyone did that more than once given the conditions of roads in Italy in 1931 to 1933, that's when the above photo was taken, 1931


Puegeot in 1934, great designed car, looks like the top is coming down

Wipers on the inside and outside... and that might be Ron Howard... like Tere commented, it sure looks like him during the Andy Griffith show

 

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