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Re: Two vehicle sketches on brickshelf gallery
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Date: 
Wed, 10 May 2000 08:05:25 GMT
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gianluca morelli <moebiusring@yahoo.it> writes:

The second sketch shows an italian small 3 wheeler lorry, Ape (it
means "bee") by Piaggio,that is very popular in Italy ,expecially
in small towns ,and is still produced after 50 (!) years.

This one is quite well designed in my opinion!  The windscreen works
nicely on a model like this.

BTW, I thought "vespa" meant "bee" in Italian?

I seem to remember that there was a couple of three-wheeled lorries at
some Japanese site as well.  Could it have been KEN-TUCKY WORKS?

Ah, yes, here's a túk-túk like model at:

    http://member.nifty.ne.jp/ken-tucky/WORKS/6265.html

and a lorry at

    http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/ha/hj22438/WORKS/0030.html

I also have a túk-túk, but it's nowhere like minifig scale!  ;-)

    http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=320

Fredrik



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  Re: Two vehicle sketches on brickshelf gallery
 
(...) Hmmmm,I'll check on my vocabulary...But I think that "vespa" (another Piaggio model and maybe parent of all nowadays scooters) means "wasp". (...) Yes, also because 3-wheeled lorries were popular in many countries,expecially after WW2 and (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)

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  Two vehicle sketches on brickshelf gallery
 
Hi all, I've put two hand-drawn instructions on brickshelf gallery. www.brickshelf.com/g...m/Sketches The first one is a Smart,a small citycar,that maybe american guys don't know (I think it's not exported in USA) You can see the original one on: (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)  

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