Seen recently on my morning journey into work, from a distance it looks like a narrow Isetta 'bubble car' with (I think) a canvas top and no side windows.
It has two 'open' wheels at the front, and one at the back centrally behind the engine. The one I see also has 2 stabiliser wheels and 'L' plates...!
(description may be a bit inaccurate, as i try to look where i'm going !)
Bora - what Bora ?
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possibly a kit car?
I remember that there are several kits available using Citroen 2CV as a donor that look similar to old Morgans.
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Mare - I know the kit cars you mean, (Lomax i think) but this is much smaller.
Think of one of those BMW motorbikes with the roll-over hoops, shrink it a bit and put 2 wheels at the front
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Could it be that dutch car they had on top gear a while back? The two sections turned independently from eachother. Maybe I've not explained that very well, but I remember the v attractive bloke (the little one - richard??) had a whale of a time in it!
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That was my first thought - I remember the TG presenters having a real scream.
This is probably about the same size or smaller, definitley rigid, and might seat 2 side-by-side
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May be it was a Beetle which saw a gap that never was between two lorries...
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PG,
That was the Vandenbrink Carver. www.motobykz.co.uk/Carver/Carver.htm
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DD - what i've seen looks like one of those...
would....
if it was
going backwards
didn't tilt
had been built by a pram manufacturer in the sixties.
I see it most mornings on the B4238. It looks very frail, and the other day it sounded ill as well. The young girl driving it (no helmet) looked very uncomfortable
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This is one of those things that's been bugging me for a while, the mystery car isn't one of these by any chance? www.qbmotorcycles.co.uk/scootcar.htm Scootcar also do a 4 wheel version too I believe.
Gareth
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Gareth - since I first posted, I havent seen the thing again until yesterday morning !
and yes, thats the beast. Fine for tootling round some meditteranean holiday isle, but you wouldn't get me in one on an A road in rush hour traffic in this country.
Your'e a star !
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Happy to help, especially with something obscure!
Gareth
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That thing is insane, you'd have to be mad to ride one!
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Yes but the options page lists a "towing kit". What would you tow with it, I wonder ...
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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... and a bull bar. The mind boggles.
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I get the impression that the 'towing kit' is to enable you to tow the Scootcar rather than enabling it to tow something!
The four wheeler looks like fun, wish i had a spare few grand to splurge on one.
PP
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Every morning I drive out of Wigan on the B5238, and see her coming the other way. She will be driving in a solid 3-mile, downhill queue of traffic with loads of lorries and buses - It would take a braver man than me to do that !
There is nothing on the website about the engine - i assume its a 2-stroke, and on one day when it sounded very much like a 2-stroke in trouble, the girl driver looked absolutely petrified.
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Auto Express say that there's a 50cc, a 350cc and a 500cc available, as well as electric power. Two stroke engines have pretty much died out now, even scooters have 4 strokes for the emission laws. If it sounded like a 2 stroke it must have been serious!
Gareth
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If the 50cc is classed as a moped I presume that it is restricted to 45kph (27mph).
Mixing that (or a restricted moped) with traffic doing up to 70mph is a brown trouser job.
At night, in the wet?
Shorter life expectancy than a rear gunner in Bomber Command (Poppy Day reference).
Whoever dreamed up that restriction should be made to ride a moped to that specification, with someone following behind with a bucket to shovel up the pieces.
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