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I like the way you start MicroCar.

Haha don't go rolling too fast down that driveway and into the pond    But if you do, make sure the Tech Guy Mrs. Crazydoug is filming   

That was fun Doug !


I have a "Puch Trilet" disability scooter here, that i bought a couple of decades ago, which sort of reminds me of your MicroCar.


(example-pic lifted from the web, mine is in storage)
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Looks like a fun little machine - hard to believe it was street legal forty years ago. Glad to see it starts okay - just hope the starter doesn't get too tired.

In answer to several questions-no, i did not put it in the pond, but i did flip it over almost immediately- my wife did video the mishap, but i would not let her put it on youtube!
My wife clocked me at 25mph out on the public road- it claims to do 30, maybe when proper tuning and carb adjustment is attained.
Jan, is your trike electric start/ I considered putting a chinese 50cc electric start engine on this if i couldn't get it running with the original Minerelli engine.
And i already have a small 4' x 6' trailer with a ramp tailgate which will haul the microcar and my only full sized engine, an Fairbanks Morse Eclipse vertical hit/miss.
crazydoug

...Jan, is your trike electric start...

Just a few years after mine, they did start installing electric starters on them.
However, mine being the first version, it merely sports a string with a return spring on the right side of the seat.
(Same starting system you find on the smallest Briggs & Stratton powered lawnmowers)


When fully assembled, does yours have the head/cylinder completely enclosed as well, and cooled by fans on the flywheel, to keep it from getting too hot when driving very slowly for extended periods?