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Jun 13, 2012 | 09:48 AM

#11

Polemicist

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From: Ulaanbaatar

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Originally Posted by Nick Graves

They did invent the Welleyes cycle brand, because the name sounded terribly English. To Italians.

Indeed.

And they did create the 'Wally' brand too!

Jun 13, 2012 | 11:59 AM

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Heinz '57

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Originally Posted by Nick Graves

Bizarrely enough, they evolved directly into a decent little car and then indirectly into today's Subaru.

Did you ever drive a Gogomobil Nick? I did and it defined the description of POS! You learned to avoid any sort of upward incline.

Jun 13, 2012 | 10:44 PM

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Nick Graves

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From: Hertford

Sadly, no.

I've always kind of admired those really crap German microcars. Even Goggomobils with their back-to-front gearchanges. (Think that might have been the Isar 700, actually) and LJKS was a fan of the better-engineered Heinkels.

The later Lloyds were the antithesis of the FIAT 500; beautifully-finished bodywork with crude underpinnings.

I can really see how it would have seemed quite heroic to cross the Alps on holiday with <19PS way back then when times were black & white!