3 wheel drive!

very politely thru the orifice.
JD

Well done JD, two gold stars, an elephat stamp and you can go home 5 minutes early;-)

Captured WW2 German tooling from what I've been led to believe.

Here's their website....

Ural

Hi V8Diesel,
Talk about captured tooling,have you ever seen the japanese copy of a WLA...man this thing is huge!!! those little blokes would have needed a step ladder to get on...talk about early japanese quality.

Ha ha ha....never seen the Nippon 'Wallah' (certainly like to though!) but I have seen the Kawasaki Beeza 650 copy in the flesh. The WA police actually used them as patrol bikes in the 1960's alongside the Zephyr's.

There's an Enfield 500 single still made in India too. They look cool, but metallurgy from the Sub-continent would always have me a bit worried I reckon.

I think the Japs made a copy of the Chevy Blueflame six petrol donk for one of their early 4x4's too.

err excuse me sir,me frames cracked!.....well you silly eriot," weld it up",p off...come again......supposed to readlike apu's voice..

"ooohh goodness gracious me" - Peter Sellers

Now, being a nurse, the first thing I thought of with that URAL website was the other product by that name.................

Gary, there's a European car called a NSU. I wonder if they have anything to do with Ural? ;-)))

Check out the 'Ural' link above mate, might be better.

Thanks, that worked for me. Noticed no dealer in Oz only NZ - any idea what they cost?

Kind regards

The bloke who owns this bought it direct from the factory and rode it home to WA via Siberia. Keen.

He picked up an 11 cylinder radial plane engine while he was at it too.

G’day V8,

Hope it wasn’t winter at the time? Man, you’d have to be keen, I suppose if it is cheap enough and who in the neighbouring countries will take on a Russian – so I guess he would have had some confidence about his safety. BTW must be some ultra light he is building as well!

Kind regards

Yep, one hell of an ultra light it is LOL

It's actually a bizarre looking WW2 era plane called a Blohm & Voss. Hard to describe, let me say it is probably the wierdest aircraft I've seen. Luftwaffe would have won because the allies would be too busy working out what the hell it was to shoot them down;-)

I pressume it's BIG with 11 cylinders. Also must be like a transport plane or the like.

Kind regards

Beatit, it's one of these......

Blohm + Voss

Now that's one wierd plane innit.

There's some good websites on them, I just need to look around a bit.

Very unusual alright. I guess it worked. That is one unusual plane to want to rebuild - would have thought that there must be many more go fast conventional machines. But I have to give it to him, there probably wouldn't be too many of these about.

Kind regards and thinks for the link

Did some further investigation because I thought I had heard of the name - they are into shipping, and if memory serves me they actually were part of the consortium that built our frigates. They have moved from planes.

Blom & Voss models

They certainly had a cupboard full of unusual designs.

Kind regards

My favorite Ural/BMW

great for pullin logs out of the bush to the fire place,two wheeled tractors

A Postie bike side-hack.......hmmmm. I can see the welder will be getting a bit of a workout soon.

Hello Redback,
I also had a 650 Triumph with a 640x13 rear wheel. The tyre was buffed (to remove the tread) and had self tappers all around the rim and into the tyre bead to allow it to run on very low pressure.
Had to spread the frame to fit the wheel and tyre in. Because the chain sprocket still had to line up with the engine drive sprocket, the wheel was offset. A bugger to keep in a straight line under acceleration.
I ran it on Stockton beach during the late '60s until a piston seized and pushed the head cooling fins into the tank, puncturing it. Very exciting thing to happen between your legs at 60mph (as it was then).
Cheers,
Dexter

Jeez,check out all the 50 weight....all because of a URAL...were all getting old.....cranky....old.......farts....LOL...back then l would have jump all over your head if you said LOL...but that was then..l live for now!