Fun sites. Thanks. I have always been fascinated by vehicles with no
obvious means of locomotion.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Aug 17, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Roger D. Key wrote:
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> Isettas were originally Italian (Iso isetta, with two cylinder
> 2-stroke),
> but were also made under license by other companies, BMW being one of
> them.
> Normally a 4-wheeled car, they also made a 3-wheeler version. BMW
> motor was
> a 298cc four-stroke, with four speed transmission. Some models
> apparently
> had a reverse gear. Try looking at
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> http://www.whirlingpool.com/isetta/history/history.htm
> http://www.cqql.net/bmw.htm
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> Roger Key
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> Winsor wrote:
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> I suppose we are still talking Isetta/BMW. The ones I heard running at
> the show last week definitely did not sound like two stroke engines
> unlike the Messerschmidts. They were the standard BWM single cylinder
> motorcycle engine and I would assume the motorcycle gear box that comes
> with it. Motorcycles don't go in reverse either.
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA
> On Aug 17, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
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>>> AFAIK there is no reverse gear...!
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>> As I remember, it had a two-stroke engine and for reverse you just
>> started
>> the engine running in the opposite direction. Same as the three
>> wheeled
>> Messerschmit. There was a switch for reverse. The darned things
>> would go
>> just as fast in reverse as they did forward. Had the same gears.
>> Paul in Portland OR
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