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[MartijnGizmo]

Die zijn (op de kleur na) hetzelfde?

[Richard030]

Die zijn (op de kleur na) hetzelfde?

Ik vind de Rota's de moderne versie van de oldskool Minilites.. Staan mooier in mijn ogen onder een MINI als die die MINI heeft.

[MartijnGizmo]

En die maakt Watanabe dus al sinds 1968... http://www.rs-watanabe.co.jp/index.htm Vraag me af of er ergens een link is met de originele Cooper-wieltjes.

[MartijnGizmo]

Overigens is Rota daar niet de enige in, dit was in de jaren '60 volgens mij al...

Minilite:


Watanabe:


Panasport:

[GreyCooperS]

Is Watanabe dus een Wanabe Minilite

[MartijnGizmo]

En Chaparral:


En Konig Rewind:


De RB van Rota zou trouwens moeten staan voor Racing Bananas...

[MartijnGizmo]

Origineel dus toch bedacht door Charles Cooper en zijn zoon John Cooper. Die John kennen we weer van de Mini...


http://www.britishracecar.com/CameronHe ... orsche.htm

Cast wheels with integral brake drums are a third distinctive and notable feature of early Cooper cars. The concept had previously been employed by Bugatti, at least as early as 1924.

From 1948, Cooper's earliest bespoke wheels were cast from aluminum alloy. Starting in 1949, Cooper used and offered customers similar wheels except made of extra-light Elektron™ magnesium alloy. (The weight advantage of magnesium would have been at least 20% and thus over 3#/wheel, depending on specific alloys employed.)
For lightweight racing classes, integral brake drums worked well and were cost effective. Excellent heat transfer away from cast-in iron hoops translated into reduced brake fade during longer races. Integral brake drums also made the wheels especially rigid and simplified access to brake shoes. Studying old photos, it's evident Cooper produced many different wheel designs in the 1950s (including multi-component wheels as shown below) but with integral brake drums as a common feature until 1958 when Cooper began installing Girling disc brakes.
At that time, Cooper designed distinctive new 8-spoke alloy wheels with more curvature in the hub section to achieve the desired stiffness. Cooper's 8-spoke alloys evolved into the ubiquitous Minilite™!

http://www.britishracecar.com/JayNadels ... er-T43.htm

Custom lightweight alloy wheels had been a Cooper feature from the company's earliest days. Cooper's first
wheels were aluminum, but most original Cooper race wheels were cast in magnesium alloy.
Owen Maddock designed Cooper's distinctive magnesium 8-spoke wheels for the Bob-tail MkII model of 1956. In a way, the
8-spoke design was a big departure; earlier Cooper wheel designs featured integral brake drums. The design
accomodated disc brakes and high cornering force, but the big competitive advantage was their light weight.
They would become a Cooper trademark before evolving into the ubiquitous Minilite design of the sixties.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... z29kwfvu4i

[Sven]

Mooi stukkie speurwerk Martijn!

[MartijnGizmo]

Ohja, en styled cars:

[BMX]

Ohja, en styled cars:

ooooooohw wat lekker is die Scooby

[MartijnGizmo]

[BMX]

Als ik het geld had.. .. ..

[MartijnGizmo]

Een rechtsgestuurde EVO IV begint bij €5-6K, just sayin'...

[BMX]

Maar ik wil een LHD Evo VI (TME).. die rijden echt TE lekker!
Maar kosten 18K ofso als je beetje leuke hebt..