Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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Neat stuff! Thanks for finding this. I think I had seen the three-wheeler before somewhere. I wonder about the claim that the central front wheel stabilizes the car in case of a blow-out. Has anyone out there driven a Robin Reliant with a blow-out? I would be curious to hear about the experience.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I really like the look of the second car in the film. I watched a couple of times, but I could not find or hear a make or model mentioned. Any ideas?
Sigh. I can't tell you how many times I tried to get a conversation going about the Davis Divan on that OTHER blog (you know which one). But I never could get the know-it-alls to deign to gab about it. They didn't know anything about it so it didn't exist.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right. A blowout would be a very bad, bad thing.
I also was intrigued by the second car. I know nothing about it but would like to know more. I didn't catch who made it, if it was mentioned and I don't have anything in any of my books about it. It's a real weirdie.
It took me a while, but I think I found a lead on that second car. This page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/2015/01/10/video-the-cars-of-the-future-for-1948/
includes this note:
"Reader Paul Jaray has kindly identified the aluminum-skinned streamliner as Jack Norvell’s Chrysler-engined special, which was featured in workbench magazines in 1946"
Amazingly, here is a brief article from Popular Science, July 1946:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=TCEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=Jack+Norvell%E2%80%99s+Chrysler-engined+special&source=bl&ots=-ueNyvp7a9&sig=0W8VQQk6UkMswjLmOqQ916BgoDI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKx8ytxrfKAhWDlIMKHa9gCYkQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=Jack%20Norvell%E2%80%99s%20Chrysler-engined%20special&f=false
Excellent detective work, B! So a one-off prototype, like the TASCO. There were/are 13 Divans, according to the Interwebz.
DeleteHere is a better scan of that Popular Science article, which includes some other "original" motorized creations:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.modernmechanix.com/americans-roll-their-own/