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Arragonis · 03-08-2011, 06:03 AM

A quick check of ebay here has a few 2CVs available from £250 up in running condition. "Projects" for parts are cheaper. Or even a complete Lomax for £2.5k, one a 4 wheeled on.

I would think any FWD car would be suitable, are there no Metro based kits ?

jamesqf · 03-08-2011, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Arragonis

A quick check of ebay here has a few 2CVs available from £250 up in running condition.

Humm... (Thinks of easy money-making opportunity :-))

But I suppose it's a scarcity thing, as Citroens were never imported to the US in any large numbers.

watahyahknow · 03-08-2011, 10:21 PM

there have been kits available for some time using a moto guzi V twin engine

jamesqf · 03-09-2011, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by watahyahknow

there have been kits available for some time using a moto guzi V twin engine

Sure, and those are real common in the US, too :-)

And cheap (not). eBay has a few...

Also, if I were building one, I would much rather start from a FWD donor car. Not many motorcycles have a reverse gear, for one, and the engines tend to be much better on fuel economy, or at least that's been my experience.

watahyahknow · 03-09-2011, 12:35 AM

quafe makes a special forwarth/reverse gearbox for motorcycle engines it alowes a driveshaft to be mounted to the sprocketshaft of the engine and gives forwarth and reverse
there originally made for kitkars running hayabusa engines

andylaurence · 03-09-2011, 08:59 AM

There's reversing gearboxes that sit on the propshaft of a bike engined car, lots of electric reversing mechanisms and Quaife also do a chain driven unit that has an ATB differential inside it for hooking up to a transversely mounted bike engine. It works very well and gives you 6 gears in reverse! I have one in my race car if you need more info.