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1951 Hoffman - Don't want it.

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It's Monday!

I don't normally like "worst car" lists - I find them smug and silly and arbitrary. This however made me laugh (some language at the end)

 
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Fantastic! Now I want to go out and find one to drive.
 
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hey, it's got a radio.......AND hardwood floors;
what else could you possibly want.

they must have installed those rear engine access doors upside down/opposite.
those vents would catch a flood of rainwater facing up like that.
 
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I presume it has a scooter or small motorcycle engine and find it interesting that it has electric start and a reverse gear. I wonder if Hoffmann rigged something up himself. Some of those small trikes used an electric motor to provide a reverse - maybe he made a mechanism to use the starter for that(?). Also interesting that it has a cooling fan. He was obviously very skilled, even if he wasn't a great engineer.
 
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Sorry, need to unpost. We must have received this interesting bit at the same time. Don't want it.
 
Sorry all. It won't let me delete this post. I guess it is double the worse car EVAH!
 
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Why would you want to delete your post?

I thought it was great! In fact, I copied the YouTube URL and shared it already!

Besides....we need to protect unsuspecting newbies to the collector car world! :encouragement:
 
rick_ingram said:
Why would you want to delete your post?

I thought it was great! In fact, I copied the YouTube URL and shared it already!

Besides....we need to protect unsuspecting newbies to the collector car world! :encouragement:
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Of course the thing is probably worth a fortune just for it's rarity.
 
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love the window lifts just like the old trains.
 
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GTP1960 said:
hey, it's got a radio.......AND hardwood floors;
what else could you possibly want.

they must have installed those rear engine access doors upside down/opposite.
those vents would catch a flood of rainwater facing up like that.
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Their the rear window defrosters. :encouragement: :highly_amused:
 
Note that I have merged two threads that were about the same topic. JP's thread titled It's Monday and this thread titled "1951 Hoffman - Don't Want it"
 
Basil said:
I am speechless!
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Ditto. Hilarious too.

The Wartburg is a funny video too (with its 7 moving parts in the engine):
 
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"Seven moving parts". Ah what memories. Its 1957 and I'm back in Boston working as a mechanic at Allied Foreign Cars, 663 Beacon St. I was there for 6 months - way before I wound up in law school - and we, along with Gaston "Gus" Andrey, a well-known New England sports car driver, were the first Saab dealers in the US. I actually attended a factory school in Hingham. MA learning how to work on those putt putt 2-cycle engines. Yes. I'm an official Saab factory mechanic and have a cigarette lighter and sew-on patch to prove (both lost through the years). I actually sold one Saab and made a $50 commission. We bought the cars for $1,595, put on an outside mirror and an Automatic radio (made just down the street from the shop) and sold them for $1,895 - no discounts obviously. That strange feeling Jason encountered with the Wartburg was probably free-wheeling which the Saab also had. Andrey raced a Saab 93 on ice in New Hampshire and beat a bunch of sports cars including Jags, Healeys, etc. He would come to a corner, pull up the handbrake, slide around the corner and take off again.
 
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