These vehicles were very heavy for their extremely small size. This was in part due to the extensive use of cast parts, which Eshelman thought were easier and cheaper to produce than hand formed sheet metal. Identical castings were used front and rear, with a cast toothed grille insert in front and plywood sheet filling the same aperture in the rear.
There was no suspension, no instrumentation, no charging system for the battery, and the brakes were paddles rubbing on the tires: two on the Child’s and four on the Adult model. The drive to one wheel was transferred from the front of the car to the rear via a central enclosed belt and centrifugal clutch. The two floor pedals on the Adult car were a brake pedal (incorporating a clever parking brake) marked "Stop", and a gas pedal marked "Go". Starting was by rope pull, and stopping the engine required reaching into the engine compartment through a hole and feeling for the kill button on the hot engine.
http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/eshelmanadultsport.html
But for the wheelbase rules.....this is almost Lemons ready.
only in this group would someone notice the 1/4 of a car pictured a hundred yards behind the object of the photo, much less ID it as something that almost nobody else has ever even heard of.
i love you guys.
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