Zebedeewesty
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Helps the wheels are only 3" wide.
Yes, that was a good design feature. Large wheel diameter and narrow tyres with tall flexible sidewalls gives a large tyre contact area, without the power sapping drag of displacing a wide path of loose surface materiel from in front of the wheel.Helps the wheels are only 3" wide.
I had to get my magnifying glass out to find your position, it looks like there's not much leg room in there?


I only get to make a few exploded views a year, but I do my best to make them perfectI have also been fascinated with cutaways and exploded views since childhood. So much; in fact; that I now make them almost on a daily basis. BTW, my day job is a tool designer.
Both of them were awful. Mostly, well, just the whole thing...!Front engined front wheel drive Austin Metro
Both shared some bodywork, mostly just the roof.
They weren't brilliant. I learned to drive in a 5 door 1.1 metro. Not saying i wouldn't want one of the new 6R4s thats available though.Both of them were awful. Mostly, well, just the whole thing...!![]()
The standard fwd 2cv perform well off road.I've never seen one of these, but I met a Land Rover R + D chap who had driven one.. He said: "People laughed, but actually they perform incredibly well off road".

^^ This must be the DeLuxe (Lusso?) version of the 500.
Didn't the luxury version just have carpet not rubber mats?^^ This must be the DeLuxe (Lusso?) version of the 500.
All the multi-coloured parts above were either painted black or were rusty on my old 500.
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I had that happen to an AC VW engine while driving once.In the 70s I found a book in the school library that was all cutaway drawings of everything from a chainsaw to a semi to the lunar lander. 8 year old me devoured that book... I renewed it and re-read it over and over - it answered so many questions I had.
in the very early 90s, most of the textbooks in trade school were still full of cutaway handmade drawings which just made sense to me. Now I see computer generated diagrams but they just don't give me the same perspective and inner vision of something. Probably just my age - I can't stand trying to follow a schematic on a computer either.
Anyway - in a similar vein, Cummins headquarters in Columbus has this:
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Exploded Engine,
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In the 70s I found a book in the school library that was all cutaway drawings of everything from a chainsaw to a semi to the lunar lander. 8 year old me devoured that book... I renewed it and re-read it over and over - it answered so many questions I had.
in the very early 90s, most of the textbooks in trade school were still full of cutaway handmade drawings which just made sense to me. Now I see computer generated diagrams but they just don't give me the same perspective and inner vision of something. Probably just my age - I can't stand trying to follow a schematic on a computer either.
Anyway - in a similar vein, Cummins headquarters in Columbus has this:
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Exploded Engine,
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I had that happen to an AC VW engine while driving once.
