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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Dom on July 16, 2010, 06:25:37 PM
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Hi , hopefully this will make more sense
I'm new to being a peel owner after recently picking up an original Trident that
was lost in a mates garden for 30 years.
It needs some tidying but I'm looking forward to getting it on the road.
Just joined the site for useful info and to touch bases withother members.
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welcome friend !
cant help but sure that others will very soon
remember they're fun not high finance :)
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wow! That's quite something to' find' in a garden!! Not like strimming away and finding an old broom or washing line eh! ;D
Good luck and try and get some pics on please.
Been off the forum for a while so hi to everyone.
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Great find, welcome to the forum.
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come on Dom lets see the photos :)
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Yes please 'before' and 'after' photos most important and also please put it on the Register of Unusual Microcars even before its roadworthy, download a form from the web site (see halfway down 'About Register' page and send it off to Alastair Lauchland as soon as possible, please Jean.
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Just got a new camera after a series of mishaps , 3rd one this year so i will get some pics up.
The main one that Peel Guru Andy took is already on this site and i have started stripping it for restoration
Im so amazed that all the nuts n bolts however rusted they looked came undone without any effort.
I work on a lot of modern cars and they dont play ball all the time.
Though it did confuse me after working on the body which was imperial to then have to switch to metric for the engine.
Doh, i vorgot it voz german
I will be at Malvern (as i live only a short distance from it)
Look for the person that hasn't got a working peel there but is excited by it all.
Many thanks to all the people that have been in touch so far.
Andy, Ferdie and many others - you lots seem a great bunch, I look forward to meeting more at Malvern.
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hi dom
which photo is it thats already posted ? what everyone wants is seemingly just what you have - enjoy !
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Hi Dom, its great your Peel makes progress. If you do need any help with the engine / carb just sent me a personal message.
I do know some contacts of guys selling parts or doing complete replacements anyway.
Good luck bringing the Trident back on the road mate
Cheers
Ferdi
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hi dom
which photo is it thats already posted ? what everyone wants is seemingly just what you have - enjoy !
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z211/stuartcyphus/DSC0063444.jpg)
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:) now that is really what we all want isnt it
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Damn right!! question begs what happened to the door?!
Can't be many in 2010 left like this. Truly the grail..
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Each one found is one less but they are still out there. The easy ones were found years ago so it is on with the dowsing and attempting to be the person who gets the lead on one. I have a sniff just now but it is an awkward situation that will see the stuff go to who ever might be in the right place at the time without them needing to know about the stuff. Not unlike a situation with several other rare cars I know about. There are some very awkward folk out there who you cannot really have dialogue or a deal with as they are either a bit paranoid or just enjoy owning things so you cannot have them despite having no interest in the machines themselves. Normally I am pretty good in these situations and get in but it takes time. These leads come up via non Micro sources normally and my trade contacts still give me info from outside the established scene as well as talking to people during my other activities. Ultimately it seems to be a small group who find many of the cars and it is because they look where no one else does. I used to work on the basis that every village had a Bubblecar lead in it. You would be amazed how often this proved the case and a car could be traced, many times to it's being destroyed but enough times to end up with a car, parts or engine. 25 years on that is probably not such a successful strategy but unless you look you do not find. I still find even though I am in no way looking as hard.
What happens if the door turns up with someone else? Ooo eck!
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Each one found is one less but they are still out there. The easy ones were found years ago so it is on with the dowsing and attempting to be the person who gets the lead on one. I have a sniff just now but it is an awkward situation that will see the stuff go to who ever might be in the right place at the time without them needing to know about the stuff. Not unlike a situation with several other rare cars I know about. There are some very awkward folk out there who you cannot really have dialogue or a deal with as they are either a bit paranoid or just enjoy owning things so you cannot have them despite having no interest in the machines themselves. Normally I am pretty good in these situations and get in but it takes time. These leads come up via non Micro sources normally and my trade contacts still give me info from outside the established scene as well as talking to people during my other activities. Ultimately it seems to be a small group who find many of the cars and it is because they look where no one else does. I used to work on the basis that every village had a Bubblecar lead in it. You would be amazed how often this proved the case and a car could be traced, many times to it's being destroyed but enough times to end up with a car, parts or engine. 25 years on that is probably not such a successful strategy but unless you look you do not find. I still find even though I am in no way looking as hard.
What happens if the door turns up with someone else? Ooo eck!
Boy would i love to know where there is a trident stashed away :o I have not been in the bubble world for long(loved tridents for years) but i'm going to try to locate one.I live very close to Stanmore where many tridents were sold from the infamous two strokes of Stanmore.One would think there must be one tucked away in a shed/lock up but where do you start to locate them if there are any left.I'm having some flyers made to go in the local post office/newsagent window and hope some old lady/gent will read it and get it touch !!!!!! we can all dream :)
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By the way Dom you are one of the luckiest men alive.....Its like finding a real piccaso in someones loft ;)
Good luck with the project ;)
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Damn right!! question begs what happened to the door?!
Can't be many in 2010 left like this. Truly the grail..
What do you mean" Damm right" pel? You have one of the best tridents on this planet :o ;)
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Damn right!! question begs what happened to the door?!
Can't be many in 2010 left like this. Truly the grail..
What do you mean" Damm right" pel? You have one of the best tridents on this planet :o ;)
Damn right as in that's what everyone wants. I tried my hardest to find a knackered Trident in a damp garage for 50 quid.
Well that never happened. If it's meant to be it's meant to be. Good luck dear boy!
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I live very close to Stanmore where many tridents were sold from the infamous two strokes of Stanmore.One would think there must be one tucked away in a shed/lock up but where do you start to locate them if there are any left.I'm having some flyers made to go in the local post office/newsagent window and hope some old lady/gent will read it and get it touch
Not such a stupid idea. I would suggest Wadebridge etc as prime Bubble stash areas. Quite a few cars have come from there. Without being class bigoted the working class areas yield but less than the upper working class and middleclass areas as the latter could afford to mothball vehicles rather than sell them. I got a nice few cars from a guy with a rambling place next to Thorpe Park gravel pits. You would not know the land was there let alone sheds of cars. He was clearing to sell off land for development otherwise he probobly would have kept the stuff. It is out there it is finding the key to unlock the opertunity. Best of all is drive a Microcar and get noticed!
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A few pics of the stripdown so far
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Good luck with the restauration, Dom !
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may i repeat the comments made by the honourable gentleman before me. by the way the spelling on this site has reached an all time low what must those across the pond make of us all ? :-\
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Not to mention the lack of proper capitalization at the beginning of sentences. ;)
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ah but that is quite deliberate I CAN USE CAPITALS but not cool when emailing or texting . and i am sooo cool :) bad speeling not so cool really .why is it that none english peeps are better than english peeps ? ???
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Restauration is the correct term for the careful and polite delivery of occasional snacks and light refreshments to the valiant engineer by their other half during the course of a restoration.
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We have the luxury of a spell check with our forum too but not all use it, I'm just as guilty! I shouldnt worry about the folk across the pond Richard, you should have a look at the IsettaWorld forum and see how they worry about their TIRES and what COLOR to paint the cars. ;) ;)
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you know i never noticed the spell check , and there it is . down there . mind those injuns bob ;D
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This is probably a question for Jim, but if I write in UK English the spell checker will correct my spelling to UK standard spellings. Does this mean that if our US cousins use the same facility on the forum it corrects their spellings to UK English as well, or does it correct it to US English spellings?
Does this also mean that it will also correct our French neighbours spellings to UK English?
What a shame if everything was to be standardised to UK English, it would be no fun reading the items and trying to guess what is being conveyed.
Should we have seperate spelling buttons for UK English, US English and Allow Allow (french translation) English.
Chris Thomas
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You may have to explain the "injuns" thing Richard else people will think I'm some kind of racist.
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Spell check! Hows about me? Do not even know what "injuns" does mean !!!
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It's Essex for: 'engines'
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got it blob. doesnt translate very well but goes back a bit with bob and i - perhaps on that run to the last story rally in germany. yes indeed bobs accent does make engine trouble sound very like injun trouble.
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Tx Blob. How stupid i am ! Got it now :D
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Never mind injun trouble , its the cowboys you have to watch out for when you buy a microcar!
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Does that make a group of Thumpers a steer of Isettas? Cowboys come from the wild west, so that will be Wales. But then they would be Whaleboys so that is not right. I am thinking you must mean Cowley where BMC/BL/BMW Mini come from therefore. Is this revenge from the Essex civilised East Coast?