A Cutsie little SanYang truck
I just wanted to pick it up and take it home. Its adorable! 
Herbieā¦is that you?
looks kinda like an ice cream truck
Where can I find one, my bikes would fit nicely in the backā¦ 
Yeah, but what music would it play? Fleur de Lise is already taken by the sanitation vehicles.
Nah-I want one of these for carrying surfboards, dogs, bikes and motorcycles. Spray on some cool paint and a flame kit, wire for sound and get rolling.
[img]http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8962/800pxcitroenhy.jpg[/img]
I mean itās French so itās not that cool, looks like a 5 year old designed it from cardboard boxes. But it would have style.
[img]http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6004/800pxcitroenhvan1.jpg[/img]Yeah, but what music would it play? Fleur de Lise is already taken by the sanitation vehicles.[/quote]
Iāve always wondered about that. Are they making a connection between the FĆ¼r Elise and garbage? I canāt disagree.
Anyone know what the other tune they play is, by the way? The even more screechy one?
Interesting. Since its a Sanyang, Iād bet its clone of a Honda TN550 kei-class pickup truck (Honda āActyā)
I lived in one in London for a few months, fitted with a (theoretically demountable) third party fibreglass camper back. Bench seats converted to a double bed, and there was a section at the back with a tiny sink and a cooker. This had standing headroom (just, but Iām over 6 ft) since the footwell overhung the back of the pickup bed, providing the required depth. Since it was glass fibre you could use this bit as a shower compartment as well. Astonishingly space-efficient and super-cute, the truck was also quite mechanically sophisticated for a rock-bottom utility, with a De-Dion coil spring setup at the rear.
I liked it A LOT.
Hereās someone elses. (I donāt have any pictures of mine, which was blue, and dirtier). Lots of other pics on the same site.
The truck was rare as henās teeth in the UK (Iād guess as rare as sabre-toothed henās teeth here, since I think Iād have noticed them.) The rather upmarket local Honda dealership in Chiswick had never heard of them and parts enquiries got routed through to the motorcycle department, where āreal bikersā (upmarket variety) told me Honda dont make a 550 cc machine, and then sniggered a lot. :fume:
It got sort-of knicked eventually. :fume: (long story). Almost impossible to replace in the UK, and would have cost 10 times what I paid for it if I could have found one.
And here I understand Iām not even ALLOWED to have a truck, FFS! :fume:
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Iāve always wondered about that. Are they making a connection between the FĆ¼r Elise and garbage? I canāt disagree.
Anyone know what the other tune they play is, by the way? The even more screechy one?[/quote]
I think the other music the garbage trucks play is La priĆØre dāune vierge or maidenās prayer by Tekla BÄ darzewska-Baranowska
wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenās_Prayer
itās beautiful music but not on an 8-note midi on a PA speaker
listen to a grand piano: youtube.com/watch?v=loJY25HOIr4
This was my alarm music when I was growing upā¦ oh memoriesā¦
[quote=āsulavacaā]A Cutsie little SanYang truck
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If Iām not mistaken it has a 3-cylinder, 2-stroke engine of about 700cc. Cute isnāt it? Quite amazing it can drag that heavy shell around, let alone any payload.
From above it certainly looked suspiciously like a two stroke. Also considering the almost pearl milk tea drinking straw of an exhaust.
I want one!
[quote=āCervantesā]I think the other music the garbage trucks play is La priĆØre dāune vierge or maidenās prayer by Tekla BÄ darzewska-Baranowska
wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenās_Prayer
itās beautiful music but not on an 8-note midi on a PA speaker
listen to a grand piano: youtube.com/watch?v=loJY25HOIr4
This was my alarm music when I was growing upā¦ oh memoriesā¦[/quote]
Awesome! Thanks. It may be beautiful but it is now ruined forever for me ā I canāt watch the Youtube video without imagining the garbage truck version.
[quote=āredwagonā][quote=āsulavacaā]A Cutsie little SanYang truck
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If Iām not mistaken it has a 3-cylinder, 2-stroke engine of about 700cc. Cute isnāt it? Quite amazing it can drag that heavy shell around, let alone any payload.[/quote]
My Acty was a 550cc water-cooled (I THINK horizontally opposed) 4-stroke, so if this is a close relative (and I THINK it looks it) Iād be surprised if its a smoker.
To be honest I never got a good look at the engine. Its was a bit inaccessible, and shrouded, and since I was living (illegally, of course) in the van I had to be a bit discrete about roadside mechanical work. It sounded to my inexpert ear like a 2-cylinder but there were four plug leads so I assumed it had 4 (rather small) cylinders.
It does look like Sulavacaās Taiwan sighting may be an older model, though, so I suppose itās possible the Acty had a 2-stroke ancestor in Japan
Of course, given the tiny engine one might expect it to be a 2-stroke, but then this is a Honda. If anyone else had made the Honda Cub (and Yamaha did) itād have been a 2-stroke. Honda produced some surprisingly fast 50cc 4-strokes (eg SS50)
Japan is full to the gills with 500-600 cc 4-stroke small cars, minivans, and delivery and farmerās trucks (ākeiā cars, identified by a yellow licence plate and with minimal road tax). Almost all the more useful ones run some kind of turbo, and some of them whizz by at 100 kmh plus. The max displacement in that class is 660 cc.
Yeah, but what music would it play? Fleur de Lise is already taken by the sanitation vehicles.[/quote]
Iāve always wondered about that. Are they making a connection between the FĆ¼r Elise and garbage? I canāt disagree.
Anyone know what the other tune they play is, by the way? The even more screechy one?[/quote]
Good grief, did I write fleur de lise? Okay, no more Belgian beer before posting. Messes with my German. 
This site
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mjs/cabover.html
was about the only info available on the Acty when I had mine. Thereās a bit more now, including someone allegedly selling a workshop manual, which I would have killed for (but perhaps not paid for unless I knew for sure what I was getting) back then.
It looks like Sulaās sighting is a Honda TN360 with a 354cc (!) engine, the ancestor of the Acty. (direct image display isnāt working for me so Iāve just given URLās)
http://www.honda.co.jp/collection-hall/4r/363.html
ivrogne.net/php/palbum/img/1-5.jpg
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Honda_TN-III_001.JPG
From the Japanese Wickipedia site
its SOHC so therefore presumably 4 stroke, and it appears to be 2-cylinders.
The English-language Wikipedia entry seems to be saying my Acty engine was just a bigger version of the same (2-cylinder) engine, (though it got an extra cylinder later). If true, and IIRC that implies it had 2 plugs per cylinder. Possible but strange.
Can I have my anorak back now?
This is Sulaās sightingās immediate ancestor, and apparently Hondaās first 4-wheel production vehicle. (1963)
Iād say it gets the cuteness crown.
According to Wikipedia it used an 356cc AK250E series straight-4 engine producing 30 hp at 8,500 rpm, which is pretty impressive. A 606cc version of (apparently the same) DOHC in line 4 water cooled 4 stroke engine in the rather lovely little S600 roadster produced 57hp. Maybe my Acty had one of those. Itād explain the 4 plug leads, anyway. 
Edit:Home vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZRnIrOhX4&feature=related. Cute commentary too.
Edit:1965 ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQqZpZ-d54