MIDGET CARS AND MOTOR BIKES.

[LBrown59]

A RIDE DOWN MEMORY LANE WHO REMEMBERS THESE?
King Midget Cars
Whizzer Motor Bikes

 

[cp1969]

I remember the Whizzer. In fact, someone is making new ones. I saw one a couple years ago.

 

[inveresk]

Only Midget cars I remember were made my MG. Hand built ragtops with a sweet, tight little chassis, one hurled me around university in the early seventies.

 

[ultrarunner]

I remember Morris, Austin Bantam, Crosley and Austin Americans....

 

[midlf]

Yep - I remember the King Midget. In the mid 50's a family around the corner from us had one. It was used by their two high school age daughters as an errand car. We were in a city of 8000. With todays traffic and vehicles a King Midget would be a suicide machine today. It probably was then also. At the time I thought it was a very desireable machine, at least better than my bike. I have no idea what the daughters thought of it.

 

[LBrown59]

1*When I was growing up a neighbor had a King Midget for a while.
The King Midget was built in Athens Oh a town about 45 miles from here.
Was up in Amish country around Sugarcreek Ohio about 5 years ago. Came across an antique car show in near by Strasbourg Oh. One of the old cars on display was a KING MIDGET. Been to several Antique Car Shows and displays but that was the only one where I ever saw a King Midget on display.
2* Back then another neighbor my cousin who was about 6 years older than me had a Whizzer motor bike. Put me in the mind of a Schwinn bicycle with a motor on it.
Somewhere back in those good old days I found one of the BIG rear wheel pulleys from a Whizzer and installed it on the back wheel of my bicycle then bolted a lawn mower motor to the luggage rack grabbed A BELT AND I Had MY OWN MOTORIZED BICYCLE.
3*My uncle another neighbor back then used to occasionally buy a car fix it up a little then sell it.
One of those cars was a Crosley and another one was a Henry J.
Our local Shriners club still has a Crosley they use in parades.
My uncle Called the H J a Hunka Junk.
Nash Metropolitan -I saw one of these about a month ago on my way back home from Detroit

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I remember the Whizzer. In fact, someone is making new ones. I saw one a couple years ago. )</font>

I'd never heard of the Whizzer. So I Googled and

<font color="blue">Whizzer Motorbikes</font>

Those look so cool and retro. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[LBrown59]

A Picture Review of the King Midget and the Crosley

http://www.oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Crosley/