Hello Michel and welcome.

Wow, a 20% increase in membership! That is just the spark I need to get busy
and update the website. I'll put up a few photos real soon so you can see the
body project and write an essay on how I came to this idea and where I see it
going.

Say, if I lived in Europe I would be using a VW Lupo. That engine would give
this car very high mpg. I believe a few people are using a Lupo front end clip
here in the states but I have not come across them yet. A VW import business
told me they brought a few of them over. They are out of business now or I
would already have that engine. A friend of a friend in Berlin checked around
the junk yards there and said no luck. He claims they are all going to Eastern
Europe before they come for sale to the public (Russian Mafia he says). Another
friend is checking in England.

Thanks for the kind words...they give me encouragement.

Bruce Evans

--- In maxmpg@yahoogroups.com, "michel_verwey" <michel_verwey@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Bruce
>
> Just discovered your group and the maxmpg.com website via the
> good old metrompg.com site, and seeing that you have only 5
> members at this time decided to up the membership by 20% in a
> single bound - by joining !
>
> Incredible that there are not yet more people on this, if you
> ask me. Your Swift/Metro trike conversion is exactly the sort
> of stuff that "grabs me" I am interested in and I want to know
> all about it and will try to support things as well as I can.
>
> I live in Europe; Amsterdam, Holland to be precise. Plenty of
> old Swifts still plodding around faithfully here ! And there's
> bound to be a few to found with terminal rust problems but a
> good engine etc. for a few smackers and awaiting my willing
> angle grinder - hehehe !
>
> Hope to find more reading matter soon ! Lots of success with your
> daring & stylish (ahem) project in the meantime.
>
> Wishing all the best,
>
> Michel Verwey
>