The Larmar-1948 Fits Through a Doorway | Jason Drives
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- Today on Jason Drives: Ever want to drive a 911? How about 1/4 of a 911 instead! The Larmar was a 2'4" wide car that was designed for women in England to use as a shopping car. We say this: ditch that Porsche as your daily driver and pick up one of these sweet 1-seat, 7.5HP, convertible tops now. It’s all the car you’ll ever need!
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it looks like a mini zamboni
35 m.p.h. in that thing sounds _terrifying._
Add a corner to that and say your prayers! 😂
i mean how much different would it be then a moped? i get you cant lean like a moped, but in a strait line id argue its more stable
It isn't for people who don't want to walk, it is for people who couldn't walk, or had difficulty walking. There were many such "Invalid Carriages" after WWII as it had created quite a demand, AC were making them at the same time they were building Cobras. Here is a film of a Larmar from 1946 th-cam.com/video/QVYQp99vpig/w-d-xo.html
David Edmondson thanks. Good to know
very true , i have a Nelco Solocar and they were built solely for the invalided ex-servicemen returning from WW2. Invalid vehicles were prolific after both world wars.
Invacar. Generally in NHS blue colour
1:48 If anybody is wondering what that lurid green truck over there, it's a Tatra 815.
Lane seems to be very obsessive over Tatras, as they have a row full of them in the museum.
I'd probably be obsessed over Tatras too if I could afford them.
The Lane IS obsessive over Tatras. It's the way the collection started -- a Tatra enthusiast joined with a patron obsessed with one-off and rare variants. Voila -- the Lane collection!
That was my favorite microcar at the Lane last time I visited. It looks like Captain Pike's wheel chair thingy from Star Trek lol
I have a feeling that British people understand why this car exists better than most Americans could, living in the kind of enviroment that car was aimed at and all. Honestly I can see exactly why this car existed, it makes a lot of sense in post war Britian.
Post war Britain had a lot of invalid ex-servicemen and so a whole industry sprang up to make vehicles just like the Larmar for those people, most were 3 wheeled battery vehicles though
OMG🥺 That thing looks terrifying at idle never mind going 35mph!! Terrifying and Hysterical all at the same time.
That thing is AWESOME!!
😃✌🏻🇺🇸
It makes sense for it's purpose, a little more history on it would be interesting,
Every time Jason looked down for the gear change I laughed for some reason.
you need your own channel friend
I think it was designed for disabled folks, that way they could go almost literally anywhere without any help. I saw another video on this machine years ago, and if I'm not mistaken that was the purpose of it.
Maybe less than 1/4 of a 911, and British, so likely to break down, leak oil, and you can't turn the lights on or it will quit if your not doing 35 mph, which is out of control. Another charming and honest video Jalopnik. Better than top gear
This season of jason drives is killing it
Great fun!
1948 car ahead of its time, spongebob car!!! A quarter of a porsche targa 😂😂😂😂😂
His face is very expressive and that helps communicate the experience of driving these quirky cars.
I love all these crazy obscure car videos.
I love it
HOW DO YOU KEEP FINDING SMALLER AND SMALLER CARS
how do his pants keep getting rolled higher and higher?
If he keeps going, he'll have to borrow Jeremy's P45
Lane Motor Museum in Nashville. If you ever can go do it
nothing is narrower than an AMC PACER
The British Peel is probably the smallest car I know. Watch Jeremy Clarkson driving one into a company elevator, then through their office!
I never get to see the end, My eyes are full of tears from laughing so hard.
Looks like the Star Trek prop department was inspired by the Larmar for the design of Captain Pike's invalid chair lol
that's some serious trunk to car ratio!
Jason Drives is probably the best car show ever!
Jason, please, never stop doing those
i think I just found my new favorite channel, awesome vids mate
Getting through the garden gates makes sense as an invalid carriage, but also for city dwellers. From what I've seen on TV, if British houses aren't attached, there isn't much space between them, and many lack driveways. Fitting this into spaces cars would otherwise not fit into solves a major parking issue.
It's a cool part of history.
I like it for a micro car.
He's pretty much driving a motorized baby carriage
248cc and 7.5 HP? That's five times more displacement than a "Sans-Permits" car!
Is no one going to mention his jeans? LOL
that thing is a reconstituted filing cabinet.
I saw this car at that museum! The Lane Motor Museum in Nashville is pretty neat!
Somebody most thought, "Hey, what would happen if we took the sidecar body off of a motorcycle combination, put it on 4 wheels & gave it an engine??!!".
we need more of jason!
So it doubles as Both a car and a shopping cart. How convenient.
These videos really make me want to visit Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN!
People are making a new version of the Peel P50. You should go do a show about it so you can say it's a death trap.
he already did one on the Peel Trident, which is just a 2 seater version of the P50
Looks like a sports car flattened on its side
So it's basically the OG mobility scooter.
It's like the first ever mobility scooter 😂
I went there back in April and they had a lot of narrow cars like that XD
I actually really like it
'If you love to walk but wish it was louder and more full of fumes' should be the Moto of most of the cars Jason Drives from the Lane
That's just a gokart with a fancy shell.
I'd love to see more "regular" unusual cars instead of these little oddities of the car industry. The show is great, but it's really interesting to see your comedy perspective on something we all can somewhat relate to.
I could see those in WalMart terrorizing the other customers.
Jason is secretly launching a Mein Kampf against people who are still walking.
now people use mobility scooters, exactly for that
I would love to drive this thing through my school
Jason Do all of the Reliants!
Looks like and old Snapper riding lawn mower with a body attached. Gear selector looks about the same too.
I see a new Italian Job movie in the works.
Hehe Jason is so funny:D
It reminds me of Christopher Pike's wheelchair
Lol he is afraid to drive that through a door
that's the most with the least, is'nt this the company that made spitfire plane parts for the Raf?(landing gear) etc...
it was an early version of a mobility scooter
Basically a go kart but cooler since theoretically the tyrants will let you drive it on the road because it was sold as a road vehicle before they made tons of regulations
4:11 No, It doesn't "turn sideways" to fit through doors if it did it wouldn't fit. What were you trying to say?
Try the Commuter cars Tango
If your elderly or disabled this car would be perfect.
It's 2017, and we can't even have a focused shot...
Narrower than a Briggs flyer?
I would take out the spare tire. If I had a flat, I would be within walking distance of home anyway.
needs an electric motor instead of that old lawn tractor unit
That would be hella nice to drive in the bike Lanes
A times, you sound just like Jay Leno!
Nobody could put air in the right rear tire?
I honestly would love to see something like this today with a more safer, and modern design as a commuter car, the closest thing we have that I can think of today is the Elio if the damn thing ever actually goes into production.
We do have these things today. This is an early version of what we would now call a mobility scooter. It's just that the 1940s didn't have modern battery tech or microelectronics. That's why it needed to fit through gates and whatnot.
I'm not 100% sure, but this thing I think you could drive on the road which is what i was talking about, a modern mobility scooter you can't, although I had one lady in my small town before she died who would do i anyways, and the police always stopped her, and made her get on the sidewalk lol!
In the UK, you can drive mobility scooters on the road like this one: www.nationwidemobility.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Screen-Shot-2012-10-28-at-20.16.18.png Provided that you are over 14 and have a disability. You don't need a road license or insurance, although insurance is recommended. (See www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-users-of-powered-wheelchairs-and-mobility-scooters-36-to-46). They have to be limited to 8 mph and are banned from motorways and dual carriageways. But driving them around towns and all other roads is fine.
BritishCommentWriter In most if not all of the US that isn't legal to do for safety reasons. I forget the name but there is a gated community in Florida for retirees that banned all cars and you can only drive electric golf carts and electric mobility scooters. They also banned any one under 18 from entering the front gates as well. That's the only place I can think of that does that though.
i cant believe this is a real car...
Once he squeezed through the door I expected it to expand to a regular sized car as in a cartoon
The
Why would something ever be named or referred to as a nine-eleven? Especially all the giggles in between...
What kind of petrol-kilometerage does it get?
Why didn't Top Gear ever test out a Larmar? Give it to The Stig for extra Lulz.
yo he need to test a swedish nordsö shopper i they are so cool i got 3 and i enginswapped one to a 10 hp motorcyckel engine
The Larmar looks like a dubble brush floor scrubber. With the brushes removed.
Is there room in that car for French baguettes or italian bread?
I wanna go to walmart with this thing
Kinda reminds me of a mini-zambobi
Actually I think this car is a pretty good idea. Look around in a traffic jam: in 80% of cars there is only a single driver. Try to park anywhere in a bigger city nowadays, and soon you will wish if you were in a car this size: you could park three of these cars in one parking place. Check out this for a more modern take on this concept: www.commutercars.com/
Electric, with impressive acceleration, you can't topple it because the batteries are in the bottom of the car, and it is actually safe because of all the framing around the driver.
Looks more like an amusement park prop
Larmar Superstar?
Does anyone now how much narrower it is compared to a P50?
I want to use this car to drive to my car.
Every time I see something on this show I always wonder what kind of character the car would be like if it was in one of the Pixar Cars movies. For example, this car would be like a skinny girl.
Funniest chanel ever!
Hang on, let me recline my gearbox
like nobody noticed the right rear tire was low...
nice wheelbarrow.
4th! Demmit..
Would make a dandy EV
Give it to me
You sound like Michael from GTA 5.
1:58 So it's a 227.75? One quarter of a 911.
That's a lawnmower
Surely it would have been more practical to leave it out of the gates and use a golf cart?
Golf carts weren't affordable to people in the UK in the 1940s and I don't think there were any golf carts in the country. Even by 1950, only 1 in every 10 people owned a car. (And that's including all second-hand ones). Besides, this was an early version of a mobility scooter. This was made for people who couldn't walk.
It's a lawn tractor
I feel like it was designed to fit through a gate so you could drive up to your door with all of your groceries and shopping not because it was for people too lazy to walk to the gate
Drive a car u like not one just to make fun of
Supercharge it and add Nitrous ....lol
A ... Cubicar
Geez that thing is the worst, it looks like it’s made out of cardboard, with a rubber band motor.