Chapman would have loved this

[pistonbroke 2]

Stick a machine gun on the bonnet . Start from the back of the

grid and fire away.

 

[Andrew]

Looks like a seven or nine cylinder air cooled radial engine? bet the driver gets warm! 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Sixteen cylinder two-stroke no less! Weird, but interesting. 

[Andrew]

The shape looks like it would be more aerodynamic in reverse. 

[pistonbroke]

Think it would fit in the Westy 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-G7pF6gUQ

 

[pistonbroke 2]

 

Here is all the detail of the Monaco Trossi

http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/c8b.htm

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

1 hour ago, pistonbroke said:

Think it would fit in the Westy 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-G7pF6gUQ

 

Possibly, but it would never pass a drive-by noise test... 

[Blatman]

Imagine putting a pair of Micron spannies on that   

[BigSkyBrad]

@Blatman Eight spannies would be better (assuming it's paired pistons per head)! Multi-into-one expansion chambers just don't scavenge well enough and confusing back pressures make for a narrow power band - it's better with the drainpipes. I've been there, done that...nice try but a 750rpm power band with a four speed just didn't work!

The car is my 1974 Suzuki Fronte GX coupe - 360cc two-stroke, triple carbed, reed valved, needle roller mains. I kept it in NZ for 15 years, after pulling it out of a lean-to barn (amazingly rust-free) and restoring it - only sold it in 2016 to buy the Westfield. Not quite the speed of a Westfield, but the same go-kart handling with your bum scraping the ground!

[Sparkymart]

On 21/07/2018 at 00:51, BigSkyBrad said:

@Blatman Eight spannies would be better (assuming it's paired pistons per head)! Multi-into-one expansion chambers just don't scavenge well enough and confusing back pressures make for a narrow power band - it's better with the drainpipes. I've been there, done that...nice try but a 750rpm power band with a four speed just didn't work!

The car is my 1974 Suzuki Fronte GX coupe - 360cc two-stroke, triple carbed, reed valved, needle roller mains. I kept it in NZ for 15 years, after pulling it out of a lean-to barn (amazingly rust-free) and restoring it - only sold it in 2016 to buy the Westfield. Not quite the speed of a Westfield, but the same go-kart handling with your bum scraping the ground!

I had one of these about 20 years ago didn't they call them Suzuki wizzkid? I loved it like you say gokart handling . When I tried to part ex it for a bigger car when the kid's came along nobody wanted to take it. I wish I still had it ,I've never seen another one on the road they must be rare now

[BigSkyBrad]

@Martin Rice (Sparkymart) - Cornwall AO The Whizzkid (CX-G) was from 1978 to 1984 and had a 1000cc four stroke for export. This is a Fronte, from 1972 to 1976, and was Japanese domestic market only, however New Zealand was one of only a couple of countries to also get them. It's dimensionally slightly smaller in length, height and width, and has a more raked windscreen, and although they look identical, only a handful of parts are inter-changable. There is less than 50 on the road in the world, and almost all of those in Japan. It was designed by super-car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.

Sorry, a bit off-track - would Chapman have loved it? - well, it's small and light, with all-independent suspension, so maybe...!

 

In the '80s there was one in NZ rebuilt with Testarossa-like bodywork and a mid-mounted Capri V6 engine and VW transaxle -  nothing short of a 'coffin'! Still had the original tiny disc brakes behind the 10" front wheels.