A very unusual looking sidecar on CL.
http://bend.craigslist.org/mcy/2525489365.html
Any idea what it is? It looks like a lady's slipper to me.
They are called "Sweet Chariots" With a solid axle and body mounted on rubber donuts the frame could be flipped fto make them a leftie. Very small, very light with a little fat tire.
Lonnie
I don't know where you got your information, but of the more than 450 sidecars that I built not one ever looked as miserable looking as that thing. The late gentleman that printed the Hacked sidecar news rag years ago called one of my sidecars a Sweet Chariot. That was the first time I ever read the phrase "Sweet Chariot". I informed him that we never called our sidecars Chariots. He was a perfect gentleman and never referred to my Sweet SL-110 sidecar as a Chariot again. I would wish that you get your information straight, after all you are an expert when it comes to sidecars.
Johnny Sweet manufacturer of the Sweet SL-110 sidecar, jsweet450@yahoo.com
One of these "Lotus leaf" looking sidecars was sold to us by a retired Canadian Yamaha dealer from Alberta a few decades ago.. He said it was a "Sweet Chariot" I have seen others since then identified as Sweet Chariots. Probably with no reference to you or your sidecars, but that's what they called them. Your sidecars are a new item on the left side of the continent also. I've never heard of them till you started your dissertations here on the site a few months back. The Sweet SL-100 is a new one to me. I don't know all the sidecars, just a lot of them. We're not blaming this one on you.
Jim Dodson of Hack'd magazine was no doubt using a euphamism referring to one of your sidecars as a "Sweet Chariot" (nice rig).
Cheers,
Lonnie
Thanks Lonnie. I figured if anyone had seen one of those it'd be you.
I recently talked to a guy selling what looked like a Kenna single but the seller said that it had no suspension and "rubber donuts" on it. Did early Kennas not have suspension or was it a Kenna body bolted to some other frame? Just curious. Apparently there is still a little I don't know about sidecars 😉
Like many other sidecar marques the Kenna body molds have changed hands several times. I've had them that were MFG'd. in Canada, Michigan or Indiana, and currently Washington. The bodies were all the same. All had suspension. This could have been a one off car.
Lonnie
