Re: BSA 3 Wheeler

No problem. Many of us totally ignore "upside-downers" anyway on the grounds that if you can't even work out which way is up, you are unlikely to have anything useful to say. The same applies to those hiding behind a Hotmail address. You qualify on both counts.

You need to do more work on your trolling. That one didn't even register on the trollometer.

IIRC the Morgan three wheelers were forced to race in the bike class - as they were so far ahead of the car competition :-)

Would I like one ... you bet !

Bill Tuer's 1926(?) 2-speed Morgan puts out around 120bhp, on alcohol, and weighs about 600-odd pounds...not much beats it!

There is a BSA club though, later BSAs were 4-cylinder water-cooled and some where 4 wheelers.

Wonder if that was the one I saw see off a snarling pack of Bugattis and Alfas and a 24-litre Napier-Bentley hybrid years back? Seriously spectacular stuff. Still reckon the N-B (with about 550-bhp from a Napier Lion aero-engine) would have caught it eventually if the tyres had held out - of which there was no chance whatsoever!

It's low, wide and painted grey. Often referred to as "The Grey Whale".

and has a dope breathing 1500cc V twin JAP engine hanging out the front.

That's the one. Needs a fairly tight circuit like Mallory to see off just about anything, old or new. On a fast track like Snetteron it would get eaten down the main straight.

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I've driven a BSA car - ordinary four door saloon with a 1200 cc (IIRC) sidevalve engine and pre-select box. Mid '30s.