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PostPosted: October 9, 2011, 1:53 pm 
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Hey folks,

I know sevenesque builds are primarily a fair weather car, but Spring and Fall here can be rather wet, and we get a bunch of "might rain or storm" days the rest of the time. So I was pondering the possibility of making a hardtop for my future locost.

I wondered then about whether I should just eyeball something up that "don't look too bad" or look for a design or style to copy...

Well then it hit me, howabout a 3/4 to 80% scale Bugatti Atlantic???

Not much googling brought me here...
http://home.roadrunner.com/~trumpetb/57SC/pattern.html
Where an intrepid soul is building a 1:1 replica on an S10 frame.

So hopefully that site is still around for those nice scaled pics when I get close to needing them.

I think just a hardtop in that style, or "cartoon scale" version of it would look pretty durned good, but then I start thinking... "Hey whatabout a full body kit?" annnd whatabout a 2nd dedicated "all weather" locost... :D

I am thinking the cD would be a bit better than a normal locost, not by a whole lot, I'm seeing .39 some places, dunno if that's right... so the thought occurs that this might be a reasonable "character" body for an "eco" build with diesel or electric motivation...(Heh, diesel motor would be perfect for making it real "dieselpunk", with the era of the body style and all.) I might go that way with a Volks TDI or something if I build 2, wouldn't want a tonne of power in something I'd likely drive in the wet a lot... making it "civilised" for the extended road trips I then might consider, would however be another matter.

Well, take it or leave it, but I'm not thinking of a style I might like more yet... though I kinda considered the "Traction Avante" but that just seems "wrong" to put on a RWD car.


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PostPosted: October 10, 2011, 12:07 pm 
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Fantastic!
I agree with your thoughts on an all-weather Locost.
Sunny days (when I am not working) are too rare where I live.
A Locost that is fun in the rain makes sense to me.

Of course, building a full body with doors and windows, heater for defog and comfort, and possibly AC also is a LOT more work than wrapping the Locost frame with aluminum and sticking on a wind screen.

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That is quite a link there. While I've never been a huge fan of the Bugatti Atlantic, the mold making process is interesting.

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PostPosted: October 11, 2011, 11:57 am 
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Just been eyeballing it again, and realised that in a reduced scale version, the driver would probably be midway back in the cabin, which makes exterior vision not real good with those small side windows...

Well, will at least take some careful ergonomic planning sketches to see if it's a goer... plus scaled down doors might be like trying to climb into a front loading washer...

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