Vintage Chainsaw Collectors Lounge

[RandyMac]

hello puppies

 

[Kensie1988]

Ive just been working and trying to get everything in my shop sorted out. Sold some things, been working on a few things etc. Life gets super busy when you have a kid lol

 

[RandyMac]

I know very little about kids, I should take a crash course, I think I'll be needing to know the basics.

 

[LoveChainsaws]

Read a lot, learn a lot, never post. Thought at least I could offer a pic which I know I always like.

 

[Kensie1988]

Very nice collection your growing there, you definitely got some horsepower there on the bottom!

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[s sidewall]

Wow, nice, play toys, can we come over.

Steve

 

[whatscooking]

You guys are sick.

 

[s sidewall]

CAD, heard it was going around.

Steve

 

[LoveChainsaws]

Thanks Kensie, the bottom shelf is reserved for 6+ cubers..hehe.

Steve, anytime. I’m in Richmond, KY.

Cooking, isn’t it a great sickness to have!

 

[s sidewall]

Kensie, swing by the house, road trip.

 

[Kensie1988]

Thanks Kensie, the bottom shelf is reserved for 6+ cubers..hehe.

Steve, anytime. I’m in Richmond, KY.

Cooking, isn’t it a great sickness to have!

Does it have something to do with 6 cubers being really hard to get on a top-shelf LOL

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[brandonstc6]

I picked up these today, along with a pressure washer and a stihl trimmer

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[s sidewall]

Never seen or riden an old mini with rear shocks, we never had shocks, just padden the seat more. 3 1/2 hp Tecumseh?

Steve

 

[brandonstc6]

Never seen or riden an old mini with rear shocks, we never had shocks, just padden the seat more. 3 1/2 hp Tecumseh?

Steve

2vcyle Fujimotor made in Japan


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[brandonstc6]

The 024 super cleaned up nicely

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[s sidewall]

Don't look like the same saw.

Steve

 

[Conquistador3]

That's a Fuji fold-up scooter. It was manufactured in the late 50's/early 60's, almost exclusively for the export market. It was sold under a variety of names, the most common being "Go-Devil" and originally came with big bag to put it in. It was aggressively pitched to aircraft pilots to stove it onboard but like most fold-up scooters it was really just a novelty item. It ran on 20:1 premix, meaning it could double as a smoke generator in case of war.

 

[Stihl #1]

I picked up these today, along with a pressure washer and a stihl trimmer

What you have here is a heavily modified mid '60s Centaur Folding Scooter.
Originally had a Clinton reed valve two-stoke with a belt torque converter. Had an alternator under the flywheel to run a headlight and brake light. It will fold up inside itself and was mainly sold to people with small airplanes or sailboats to use to run around town at their destination.
Here is mine, completely restored:


Folded up it looks like this:
There are fold out foot-pegs for a passenger. It will do about 40 MPH flat out but gets kinda squirrely to steer, and the brakes were cable squeeze mechanical shoes and drum on the rear wheel only so stopping can get interesting.

 

[brandonstc6]

The one I have has Fuji industries on it in several places, including the frame. The seat is marked go-devil.

That is a very interesting model you have tho.


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[Conquistador3]

The Centaur is a slightly later creature than the Fuji, production starting in 1960, and it was based on the 1953 French Val-Mobil, the first "suitcase scooter", which in turn was based on the British Welbike, of which French airborne troops had received large numbers after WWII: in fact the original Val-Mobil used a Welbike Villiers engine and as many components recovered from these surplus vehicles as possible.
Most Val-Mobil's were made under license in Japan by the Hirano Motor Co, and renamed Valmobile, and good luck if you have one of those: while the French-made scooters used Villiers engines and other British components that can be sourced relatively easily, Hirano is one of those companies lost in the mist of time. Sometimes you find some poor soul who has just found one of their Popet scooters in a barn or shed somewhere and thinks he owns a treasure of greatest rarity because "only 25,000 were made and very few survive these days". That may as well be the case, but a deadly combination of low grade untreated mild steel construction and lack of spares makes any restoration a truly expensive affair, often more expensive than the restored scooter is worth.

Most of these fold-up scooters could not be sold as on-road vehicles due to the lack of front brakes and other "ancillaries" so they were aggressively pitched as aircraft or caravan accessories, especially on the all-important US market. As most of them had peppy engines that could easily hit 40mph and they handled like a drunk elephant with a drunk handler, that meant a lot of trips to the ER and a few to the morgue as well. I think the famous, and much sought after, Honda Motocompo was the last of this breed.