• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

MG Pontoon

Share this page

jhorton3

jhorton3

Jedi Warrior
Country flag
Offline
Over a year ago I ran into a fellow at a folk art school in North Carolina. He saw me pull up in Midgie, and we struck up a conversation. He was from Florida and had a picture he wanted to give me after an hour of talking, and presented me with this.

According to him he saw it out on the water running. The original engine was removed, but the steering linkage was connected to the rudder.

I no longer have Jay's card with his contact info, but hopefully this will make it's way back around to him.
 

Attachments

  • 27002.jpg
    27002.jpg
    90.9 KB · Views: 334
I'd like to see a video of it in action. To me it would appear a little top heavy. The guy that gave me the picture had been on that lake about 2-3 weeks prior, and saw it work.
 
Ask and you shall receive

Cartoon
 
Oh wow! Thanks! It moves along a lot better than I thought it would.
 
Would be far cooler if the car was actually powering the boat thru rollers on the rear wheels and steered thru a saddle for the front wheels. If I lived near water and had nothing better to do I'd be on it!

Inspired!!

Kurt
 
Naw---just being practical! Suppose you lived on a island and your vehicle was a spridget. Just being practical!

Actually its the mad, unsatisfied engineer in me. I can see a chain drive from the wheel drums thru a couple of reductions to a paddle wheel as the simplest. The steering from turn tables with channels in them connected to cables controlling rudders. Nothing to it!!!!


Kurt.
 
lets go totally wacko a make it amphibious.. We have those creations running around up here all the time.. GET the juices going.. you can do it!
 
nomad said:
Naw---just being practical!

I can see a chain drive from the wheel drums thru a couple of reductions to a paddle wheel as the simplest. The steering from turn tables with channels in them connected to cables controlling rudders. Nothing to it!!!!


Kurt.
Click to expand...

Yeah, just what you need on an island, a slow unreliable boat.
grin.gif
 
Hoot. you said Spridgets are unreliable. Come on now. When I was 50 some I was very reliable. LOL
 
Actually I think Bug-sixty has it right. Ice storm here today and its not even safe to go down the hill to my shop. Gaskets I ordered got left out in front of the house by the mail man and the wind blew them away. So the project I could have been working on is stalled. I'm going a little buggy!!!!


Kurt
 
kellysguy said:
nomad said:
Naw---just being practical!

I can see a chain drive from the wheel drums thru a couple of reductions to a paddle wheel as the simplest. The steering from turn tables with channels in them connected to cables controlling rudders. Nothing to it!!!!


Kurt.
Click to expand...

Yeah, just what you need on an island, a slow unreliable boat.
grin.gif
Click to expand...
:lol: Was telling my wife about this and her comment was "what a waste of a car." may be one of the nicest things she's every said.
grin.gif
 
@ Nomad-That stinks about the gaskets blowing away. I know how you feel when you're anticipating getting a job done, and the parts don't arrive or you find you got the wrong ones. You probably won't find the gasket set in the yard again until Spring Thaw.
 
No, no, JP, your wife misunderstood. My practical design would be built so that you could drive on and into the propultion position, cross the water, and drive to your on land destination. Perhaps right hand gear boxes and propeller propultion would be best. Then you could enter the pontoon boat from either direction.
I'm in a white winter wonderland of SALT now. Any vehicle you want to last had better be put away till spring. Every time I meet a vehicle there is a cloud of salt following it.


Kurt.
 
nomad said:
No, no, JP, your wife misunderstood. My practical design would be built so that you could drive on and into the propultion position, cross the water, and drive to your on land destination. Perhaps right hand gear boxes and propeller propultion would be best. Then you could enter the pontoon boat from either direction.
I'm in a white winter wonderland of SALT now. Any vehicle you want to last had better be put away till spring. Every time I meet a vehicle there is a cloud of salt following it.


Kurt.
Click to expand...

Oh no Kurt, my wife understood perfectly. Typically she would calla Midget in the middle of a lake a good start. :devilgrin:
 
Back
Top