crazy contraption idea

[Aaron Coffee]

Anybody ever get any crazy ideas to build some kind of contraption.
I have this idea to build something like this

Using the powertrain from something like this to power it

I just need to find a suitable donor at a reasonable price(CHEAP)

[Greg M]

Yes, yes I have.

But then, I am an unrepentant tinkerer. Of course that probably describes half (or more) of the members around here.

There's a trashed bike at a clients house that I'd love to cut up to make a tadpole(2 wheels in front) trike motorcycle from.

Time, money, and tools are the only things that keep me out of the garage. I understand that admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, though

-Greg

[irondance2003]

I just took MY TD and MM ute to a car show last weekend, In the TD I put My Fullsized Teddy Bear Suit (Don't ask) was sleeping in the TD fully stuffed with whatever I could find.
.Missed peoples choice by 19 votes.
Any way about 30% of the comments were along the lines that the TEDDY should have his own car next year, I have played with the idea ever since and had decided that it should be a 1/2 scale Morgan (English 3 wheeler car driven by motorbike motor ) now it will have to be a contraption as to go anywhere it will be based on a pushbike and I can get away with a weed eater motor here if it is under some very small amount of power (will have to see the Goverment as to how much allowed)

1 TD to finish and then 1 year to build.
I figure chain drive with pedals and the weedeater motor under the rear cowl with drive onto the rear wheel.
Fake up the motor at the front and pushbike wheels.
Now that will be a build journal.

[rossjools]

, G'day Irondance,
great idea you have there mate. Would be even better if you could find someone with a real Morgan, but they're rare here, not unknown but rare. How's your weather up in Noosa. Been cool and wet here. At least my caravan (full sized old Viscount and 4X4 which were out in the dust have been cleansed and I didn't even have to lift a finger to do it.

I don't have a tear (as yet) but have spent some time over the last 6 weeks or so while I've been off work on compo with a broken ankle looking at this forum and becoming interested in tears. In the last week or so I've decided to try my hand at drawing profiles. No CAD, still use the old fashioned drawing board and pencils and eraser. I wouldn't know how to use CAD if I had it. When you said you have a 5 footer, exactly what does that mean? 5' wide or 5' high?

Last week as I sat in the line outside our local Car Lovers waiting my turn to wash the dust off my other car a couple of Nissan and/or Mitsu utes towing tears drove by. I got such a surprise. I don't think I'd seen a tear or a larger variation on the theme, since the late 60s or at the latest early 70s when I started travelling the Hume as a young airman driving home from Wagga every pay weekend to see my parents and girlfriend. They were headed north and looked to be beach vehicles so they may have been headed to Stockton Beach for a few days or perhaps they were getting a very early long weekend getaway.

Hope you enjoy tearing,
Cheers,
Ross.

[irondance2003]

Rossjools
The Rain that is.
We are almost in a drought,well no rain up here in more than 6 weeks is a drought my vegi patch is fine but all the green stuff that the wife plants is dieing at a rate of knots hehehehe.
Sorry should not lol, just to me Flowers come from the flower shop and you throw the water at what you can eat.
You should get to see a few more around down there soon as the build I am doing now is going to live in Newcastle next year.
As for the Morgan, There is 1 in Kenmore (Brisbane) that I know of.
Besides would you let an overgrown Teddy Bear drive your rare car?
I did let him ride my old Bantam to the Noosa teddy bear picnic a few years ago (kids were happy and my nieces, folks in charge were a bit miffed untill the local Lions grabbed him for a while)
Try This with your drawings
http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsuwenthankyou.html
I only got it last night so have not got past the learn pages

[caseydog]

There is a place called the Lane Motor Museum that has nothing but weird contraptions.

I have actually seen this car in action, at a classic car/wooden boat show in Houston called Keels and Wheels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dv-gl6RCGc

Here is a link to the Lane Museum, located in Nashville.

http://lanemotormuseum.org/

[Aaron Coffee]

Heres part of my inspiration, a guy in our car club built this, it is powered by a 12volt battery and a 1941 Chevy starter, hooked to a ? rearend. It pops wheelies and spin in circles. Everybody loves it in parades.

[irondance2003]

Aaron
If that is your inspiration then I think you should go for it, although it is a bit away from the trikes in the first post.
And after looking at that and the exstream idea I had I may have to downgrade my thoughts as well.
Not sure about electric powered as there would be no noise and I think the noise would be a lot of the fun.
Now if there was a way to make a 15hp Briggs and Straton single sound like a V8 ?????? That would be cool.

[robertaw]

I had a neighbor in WV who was always building cool stuff out of junk people threw away.

He somehow managed to use an old weed eater motor to power a bicycle! He rode it all over town. It sounded like a weed eater but worked well.

This guy could not read or write a single word but could make any kind of mechanical thing work.