Anyone own any Exotic cars?

Looks like coolant sleeves around the cylinders, but unusual to place
the engine in Front of the radiator..Them Brits, I am telling you..

The pictured 1937 car used to belong to a workmate of mine, so I have been a passenger in it a couple of times. He liked to take us through a roundabout in pretty high speed, to demonstrate that it would not tip over. But it was near...

If You guys are fond of 3-wheelers, how about one of those, the Goliath GD 750. 13 to 16 HP and a useful load of 750 kg. And it's CW value is better than with the Morgan anyhow.



Very reliable 2-stroke engine, lasts forever . We had a few of those in our logistic branch in the fifties of the last century. As a young kid, I called it the Töf-Töf, because of its engine sound.

But an Citroen Ami 6 with a Mercedes front grill is a sacrilege, period. If You concider a single wheel in the front to be dangerous, how about one of those. Believe it or not it's a BMW. Not really a 3-wheeler, as it has twin wheels at the rear but without a differential gear.





By it's certification it had to have a soft top. In case of a front crash, the soft top was the only way to escape from this "car". We had a teacher in school, who had one of those. The guys from the higher classes used to turn his car across in the parking lot between two other cars. In that position, the teacher had to wait until the car in front of his front door drove away in order to get access to his car.

Later I had a class mate owning one or those. As he was 6 and a half foot tall and having a uge afro look hair style, he had to drive always with an open roof. Funny looking car but not unsafe at all. People drove from northern Germany to Italy with it for vacation with three persons plus luggage and camping gear.

- Necessity is the mother of invention -

But my all time favorite 3-wheeler from my childhood is the Messerschmitt Kabinenroller (Cabin scooter). As Messerschmitt was not allowed to build airplanes directly after WWII, they started to build "cars".









Later they build a 4-wheeler with tandem wheels in the rear and a bigger engine, called the Tiger. There was a pretty large tuning community in Europe and the Tiger was even used for racing. As I said, the dream of my childhoud. I must have dreamed already of aircraft cockpits .

Thank's Pascal for helping me out. The low end French cars were never really on my radar. But honestly putting a Mercedes front grill on a "tuned version" of a deux chevaux is even worse. I was just joking . But this Citroen was definately on my radar.



The Citroen DS 21 Pallas, called la déesse, the goddess.

The Citroen SM was really a rare car. I do not believe, I have seen many of them outside France. Only really frankophil minds would buy one of those.

The Peugeot 404 was the highest quality French car sold in Germany during my younger years. This car felt so solid and of high quality. Almost like a Mercedes .



Today a classic car.

I must admit the only 3 wheelers I have operated have been these:
Neither one was much good at turning at a high rate of speed, on the ground anyway, inherently unstable comes to mind, followed by a ground-loop.




Two wheels, for me, or 4..

I knew the 504s quite well, drove them as taxi cabs in Norway in the late 70s.
(Among other European cars, including the Flagship 604.)