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Re: Two vehicle sketches on brickshelf gallery
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lugnet.general, lugnet.town
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 (...) (26 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: (...) (26 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)  

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