Briggs & stratton flyer : There is an identical one at the aaca museum in hershey pa., valued in the low twenty thousand range. And boy does it look like fun!
1920 Briggs & Stratton Auto Flyer Volo Auto Museum
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Today we have a 1919 briggs & stratton flyer that may have been restored to as good as new condition.
What you are looking at is a perfectly restored briggs & stratton flyer automobile. Briggs & stratton, formerly makers of auto accessories, changed the name to briggs & stratton flyer and put it on the market in 1919. They evolved into electric vehicles but the real collectable cars are these gas models. The seller, a flyer collector, says that it was found preserved in a barn and is one of.
This national award winning 1920 buck board flyer is actually street legal.
1920 briggs and stratton flyer. He has restored a briggs flyer for fred stratton and has personally restored a flyer and scooter for himself that has earned a senior first place in the aaca (antique automobile club of america) judging which is considered the highest honor in motor vehicles. 1923 briggs & stratton flyer. The briggs & stratton was an improvement on the 1919 ‘motor wheel’ concept by a.o.
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In 1920 it cost 125 dollars. Smith sold the rights to his “buggy” in 1919 and briggs & stratton produced these, it is reported, till 1920. The manufacturing rights were sold in 1924. 1 cyl engine with one and a half horsepower.
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Listed here on hyman ltd and priced at $16.5k is this fully restored example. The briggs & stratton flyer (a.k.a. 1920 briggs & stratton flyer. When the a.o smith company of milwaukee, wisconsin decided to get into the car business by building a very cheap form of transportation we’re not sure they were aiming to build.
Car briggs & stratton flyer 1920 for sale.
Briggs & stratton took over production in 1919, producing the briggs & stratton flyer from 1919 until 1924 with “young america” as. A small gasoline engine was mounted on a fifth wheel, or motor… The smith flyer was an american automobile manufactured by the a.o. This , according to the guinness book of records
This was serious transportation in the 20's.
He is very open in talking about and sharing information on this subject. They were known as the buckboard referred to as the red bug. See the unusual operation of this rare and interesting vehicle. The buckboard became known as the red bug.
1920 briggs and stratton flyer.
Briggs & stratton buckboard flyer. We are dedicated to presenting and discussing the odd, unusual and obscure in vehicles, transport. B&s improved the engine by adding a flywheel magneto and doubled the horsepower. View discussions in 1 other community.
1920 briggs & stratton buckboard flyer 1 | jack snell | flickr.
This 1923 briggs & stratton flyer (chassis 2069) is an interesting contraption featuring a wood buckboard frame with power delivered by a motor wheel, and sounds as though it was originally manufactured as a kit. Smith & co, who had produced a similar car. They also used the motor wheel to power a scooter. Powered by a 5th wheel.
Thanks to jed rapoport for the pics.
This is in good original condition out of many years of storage. Hard rubber tires with 4 fenders and buckboard with wood bucket seats; New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
