2-cycle Automobile
2-cycle Automobile
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Does any one know of a car manufactured in the USSR in the 50's or maybe the 60's that was made without a transmission, or clutch? The engine stopped when the car stopped and when the accelerator was pushed forward the engine started in the forward direction and when pushed with the heel, started in reverse. I seem to remember this mut a web search turns nothing up.





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It's actually a very neat feature on an interesting, economical, and clean-burning engine. Presumably the elimination of a normal reverse gearbox offsets some of the extra cost of the fuel-injection and emission control systems.
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It may have had a centrifugal clutch.
B.E.
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DAF started out with a small two cylinder four stroke aircooled engine, that was later replaced by a watercooled 4 cylinder four stroke engine made by renault. that engine was later used in the Volvo 340. DAF was never involved with two stroke engines.
Isetta was a small car with only one (front) door powered by a BMW motorcycle engine. There where more very small cars made in Germany at that time, the Heinkel car was one of them - it could seat two people like you can seat two people in a canoe..the engine was also a motorcycle engine. Both vehicles needed to be started again to be able to go backwards - the direction of the rotation of the engine could be simply reversed. Twostroke very small cars where actually quite common in Western Germany in the fifties and also some bigger cars where made with a two stroke engine (DKW, Tempo) and also two stroke diesels in trucks where common (Krupp).
The car you are looking for is problably a VAZ - as far as I know it had a small two cylinder engine and about the size of the later Fiat 126. Whether it had a transmission as you describe it, I don't know.
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Terrible car, rattled all the time, 30 minutes to get to 50 (top speed), electrical stuff never worked. BUT it did take some awfull abuse.
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rmw
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They designed the first popular bubblecar, lots of other companies licensed or cloned them. It used a scooter engine. BMW licensed the design and chucked a much better engine in.
That's interesting, they were 4 wheelers. I thought they were 3 wheelers.
Much prefer the Meschersmitt!
Cheers
Greg Locock
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Now I can't remember everything from last week that I need to do this week, but I think I can remember what an Isetta looked like and I haven't seen one in almost 50 years. Isn't there a medical name for that that rhymes with alltimers?
rmw
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The BMW Iseeta looked somewhat different: http://www.leblogauto.com/images/bmw_isetta.jpg. It also seated two people, but then in a transverse arrangement.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0LQJLabqA
- Steve
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