Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 30, 2007 at 21:12:11 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: posted by Owen Roberts on November 30, 2007 at 19:03:54:
I did post in Message 29646 a link to a more likely Trojan, Peter.
Yes, I saw that. I've posted another 'likely Trojan' link to the catalogue entry for the same car. But i still think that the Bullnose Morris open 4 seater looks quite a bit more like AR's drawing of Rattletrap- although neither is an accurate match.
As for the one I found (which I simply linked to because it blew my mind, not because it was a Rattletrap candidate) it did remind me irresistibly of the Citroen 2CV with its inboard drum brakes, and in its general flouting of convention, of my dad's ID19, the earlier model with the fibreglass roof. Now *that* was a superb car!
I feel that I am, however, wandering dangerously off topic. Although I'm sure that had the 2CV existed in the '30s (which it did, just, in prototype form, buried in the earth for the duration of the War) it would have been quite the finest spiritual heir to rattletrap. What a gear change... It was also the most nautical car ever. Roger tacking up the field had nothing on 'normal' progress in a 2CV, a kind of dinghy racing on dry land, with severe wear of the door handles.
So, that's it, I promise. No more cars. Not that they are much less ship-like than the present crop of ocean racers... My nephew, who runs Europ'sails, makes sail sets for those monsters. It's all computers. Not a piece of sailcloth to be seen in the loft- although he'll run a 'conventional' set off if you have the wonga. On the lake in Geneva last year, we went past a couple of Alinghi-alikes, moored off shore. They looked less like sailing ships than tanks- all mean lines and purpose.
