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Sorry about the poor photo, but it's all I've got!
This is not an artigianal self-built car, but was offered for sale by an estabilished company.
Italian?
Not Italian.
I would say USA..
I would say you're right!
From the 1980s?
Yes!
for cutter and glue? :D
I think it will get better with those...
Is this car the only product of the company?
Good question.
Nope, the same company made other vehicles, also with a different company's name...
Microcars?
Quincy-Lynn?
Not microcars and not Quincy-Lynn.
The other vehicles were ...quite unusual...but not that rare in those years.
hybrids?
Sebring-Vanguard?
Mini-based?
There seems to be a wide range of options, from 4 to 8 cylinders but not a word about the donors.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on November 09, 2010, 03:44:34 AM
Not microcars and not Quincy-Lynn.
The other vehicles were ...quite unusual...but not that rare in those years.
Black Hole candidate...that does not sound very hopefull :D
Those other vehicles....where they by any chance able to fly?
Not flying vehicles...but probably the only key to solve this one.
Boats?
Street legal vehicles, not commercial ones.
Not replicas, kit-cars, neoclassics, microcars, woody-wagons, hearses, ambulances, buggies, etc..
..but a kind of vehicles we rarely feature here.
Harley-Davidson?
Lorries, resp. trucks?
Quote from: Djetset on November 10, 2010, 09:17:02 AM
Harley-Davidson?
No H-D, but you are very close...(not to the solution of this puzzle, but to the type of vehicles)
Quote from: Allemano on November 10, 2010, 09:30:37 AM
Lorries, resp. trucks?
Wrong way...
Scooters?
Indian Motorcycles? (the motor bike make, not the country!)
Or did they built trikes?
Is this company still active?
I doubt that.
The photo looks like a scan from a book or magazine.
Is this taken from youre, most likely, impressive library? or is it also online??
Not a product by L&K Trike Engineering?
Quote from: Amsterdam on November 11, 2010, 08:18:55 AM
The photo looks like a scan from a book or magazine.
Is this taken from youre, most likely, impressive library? or is it also online??
This photo comes from an ad at the end of a magazine. It was featured in just 1 issue.
Looking for info about this obscure builder (there is everything, company's name, address, telephone number...) I found online different ads in some magazines of this very company selling Trikes, with 2 different names.
Not L&K Trike Engineering.
Is this comany full American of origin and uses only American components, or are there any forgein influances of any kind?
I have just these ads...
I can tell you that this car has got an aluminum body, a plexiglass dash and many options, including 4-6-8-cylinder engines.
If you had few $ to spend those days you could have a brochure and color prints.
The Trikes are a different story: they were sold in kit-form or turnkey.
In one ad, the company, the address and all the rest is the same of the puzzle car and the trikes are called in a certain way...in another ad, the way the trikes are described became the company name, still maintaining the same address, telephone number and so on...
Probably this may lead you to the (half) solution.
Is this a Sidewinder built by Sidewinder Street Rods, a division of Cobra Trikes, Jeffersonville, Indiana around 1988?
Not a Sidewinter and not built by Sidewinter or by Cobra trikes, but it cames from Jeffersonville few years before 1988!
Ecstasy Trikes?
Not Ecstasy.
They are described according to a specific technical aspect...
Black hole?
I'm not an expert of trikes, but probably the ones made by this company have an unusual collocation of their engine...
I assume the vehicle in question has 4 wheels. If so is it considered a "quadricycle"?
also- did this trike manufacturer previously make vehicles that were for road use or were they not intended for road use?
Quote from: microcars on January 02, 2011, 11:55:11 AM
I assume the vehicle in question has 4 wheels. If so is it considered a "quadricycle"?
also- did this trike manufacturer previously make vehicles that were for road use or were they not intended for road use?
Not quadricycle, they were trykes. I was referring to the position of the engine that may be not that unusual but enough to be a motto of the company and later the name of it.
I have an ad of this car taken from a magazine.
Looking for info for this company, based in Jeffersonville, I found more ads: one of a tryke built by this company and one of the same tryke under the name used in the previous ad as a slogan but with the same address and telephone number.
This is all I know.
Dana automotive engineering ?
How did you found it?!?! :o
Locked for you...in the meantime, please, share what you know about!
Looking for ads for trikes in Jeffersonville I found this one.
Dana S10A
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Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 02, 2011, 02:35:35 PM
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Thank you! very nice puzzle. wasn't easy
Quote from: Amsterdam on January 02, 2011, 02:38:49 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 02, 2011, 02:35:35 PM
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Thank you! very nice puzzle. wasn't easy
Indeed!
How did you found the Dana name? Are you a Trike-expert?
No not at all, but following the clues I found first this ad with the front engine trike by Dana. searching further on that name I found the one I posted
which included all the earlier clues. so I knew this was the one
Well, that's impressive, since nobody got the 'front engine' clue!
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