** FIRST VEHICLES

[Pat]

Dave, Was floating a requirement or a side effect? Uhhh, I mean for the bug not the mousetrap.

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[CJDave]

[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I don't recall a "bouyancy" requirement in the original specs, it was most likely an unintended consequence of the unibody design. Handy, yes, but unintended. Interestingly enough, the Frogs were doing design work on a car for the bourgeois in the late thirties and of course it was interrupted by a little thing called the Fall of France in 1940. Later on, work resumed and the incredible slab-sided piece of crap named ............ was produced in stubborn numbers. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] The bug production numbers were an all-time record, and maybe still are. [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

[Pat]

Dave, Do you refer to that ultimate example of automotive beauty and grace, the Gordini? Certainly not the Dauphine with its city beep beep horn and its BLATT BLATT country horn?

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[egon]

Ethnic descriptions Dave ??? [img]/forums/images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

Egon

[CJDave]

[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] My apologies, Egon. [img]/forums/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[CJDave]

[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] Pat, I'm not sure of the name. I saw that car on a website that one of my customers accessed. It looked like something that the kids would make in the back yard out of cardboard. The sides were flat and had a shape sort of like the beetle, and the roof had a roll-back-by-hand canvas insert. The windshield wipers were manually operated. [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img] Surely with your superb searchabilities you could locate that website so that we could all see the car. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[egon]

web page

[rfawkes]

My first vehicle was a 57 Studebaker Golden Hawk, turbocharged, that got 4 miles to the gallon, but back then gas was 20 cents a gallon.

[Bird]

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57 Studebaker Golden Hawk, turbocharged

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I sure did want one of those, but couldn't afford it; had to settle for used '57 Silver Hawk. At least it got great gas mileage with a manual transmission with overdrive and the 6-cylinder Champion engine. I still think it was one of the prettiest cars ever built anywhere.

[Pat]

Hey, Dave... Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while. My search skills are pretty rudimentary. Success is based on not giving up too easily and or dumb luck.

Look here ===&gt; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4CV

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