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Is this a wagon? Personally, I don't think so. A 5-door hatchback? Well, maybe I'm used to normal wagons.
This one's sitting next to that MG which is still financially out of reach. He wants 200€ for it, without inspection certification. When I asked how much with, he replied "without inspection". I suspect, it's one of those built while a scandal in Japan allegedly occured where they were slipping cheap Chinese steel into factories. This particular brand is notorious for rusting out. The previous owner wasn't any help, since he didn't bother to clear debris from the fender well where you see all that rust. I ceared it, before the owner did away with it, months ago, as it was sitting there. Today, I noticed that it was dirty again, in that exact spot. I can see what looks like Bondo, beneath the tank filler.
It has over 278,000 kilometers. Too bad, because I like it and really wanted it. It's got a cool instrument panel with what looks like orange-numbered guages. If it either had a good body or much fewer milage, I'd go for it. But, it's not a rusted out American classic wagon with high milage. So, unless you talk me out of it, I'll have to refuse it as a parts car for someone else.
By the way, it has a 4-speed automatic which I prefer over a stick shift, in a used car, because an automatic can't have a poor driver wearing out the clutch.
That MG next to it has a crease in the front fender that I didn't notice, as I posted its image in Grizz's thread

 

Just keep riding that tricycle that you mentioned in another post and I forgot to razz you about. What’s the name of that forum??i like the mg! Check this out: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
I like the scooter in the end. Maybe you could do something like that once you get the foam around your speedo squared away?

 

Ha, ha! That minibike is something I'll post at that big baby forum: https://www.ape-fans.de/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=16457&start=80
You know, Beetles were known for being airtight. What happens when the driver of that one forgets to roll down the window?
Here are a couple tricycles with Ducati engines:









Couldn't find any with Harley engines yet, though

 

Wow. That’s interesting. Seems kinda like a waste of a good Ducati though. Those apes are cool. Is that what you have? They’re Italian? Pronounced opp-aye?

 

Pronounced Ah-Peh. I've got one with the box attached to the pick-up bed. They're practically 3-wheeled Vespas. In other words, they use a Vespa engine and components from a Vespa geatbox attached to a differential. They're made in Italy, yes. I bought it early last year from a boarding house roommate. He wanted only 1000€ and all it needed was a clutch. He said he bought it new and when I got it, it had less than 4000 kilometers. Here're some recent photos. This is what it looked like, when I got it:



When I pulled the drivetrain :



I got rid of all the extra lighting, unnecessary trim and cot down the mask, so that i was left with only the headlight/turnsignal assemblies of which I painted silver-grey. I shaved off pretty much weight which is a legal way of making it go faster

 

^^^thats cool! Bigger than I imagined. I think I’ve seen older ones that look more like vespas. Maybe from the 60’s. Do they still make them. That one looks like it might be 1980 something? I see it has liscence plates. Wonder if something like that could be street legal here in the states?

 

They still make them. But, the parent company planned on replacing them wiuth a totally new model designed as a joint venture with some Chinese utility vehicle maker. It seems, they couldn't iron out the arrangement. So, they continued producing them with radical changes of which instead of just getting an idiot light for when the tank gets four fifths empty, they now get a level guage.
All three drumbrakes get a common circuit. The previous models had only the rear wheels operated hydraulically and the front brake was cable-operated.
The carburetor is now computer assisted, like Goodbye Cruel Forum's haunted Buick. So, expect to see these new 2018 models haunting their owners, in the future.
The headlights now have round SAE glass or likely plastic with LED bulbs.
The older ones were curvier and had their engines just behind the driver's seat. All models, up to 2017s, will share brakes, wheels and drums with Vespas. Of course, there are disc brake conversion kits available for the front. The brakes on these things are a joke, anyway.
There are some of these in Canada and in California. I'll have to bump one of my threads in an English-speaking forum, to get licensing details. Mine is licensed as a moped. Which means, I don't have to take it in for inspection and insurance is dirt cheap.
Here are some pics of the new model:





Here's what it used to look like:



Here are both 50's relatives. I wanted to replace that front skirt with a vintage front fender. But, it's too tight up there for that:



Looks like this answers your last question:



Larger ones got unusual conversions:



For you Woody fans:



Is this a Chevy?



I'd much rather have a Lambretta:



Ducati'd

 

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It's called a Morbidelli. That was an old image of a V-8 motersickle they built. In this video of the museum, a modern version is to be seen:

 

This is so hilarious. I may have to steal this idea.

 

"Morbidelli" sounds like something to do with death. No thank you.

 

I don't have statistics available, but that really could be a proverbial right-on-target name for a widow-making motorcycle